Senate Bill S7864

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Requires police agencies to take reports of missing adults whenever the adult is reported to be missing

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2013-S7864 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A10149
Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Operations
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Add §837-f-2, Exec L
Versions Introduced in 2015-2016 Legislative Session:
S3790, S6437, A3917, A7468

2013-S7864 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires police agencies to take reports of missing adults whenever the adult is reported to be missing.

2013-S7864 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2013-S7864 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  7864

                            I N  S E N A T E

                              June 16, 2014
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen. SANDERS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to requiring police agen-
  cies to take reports of missing adults whenever the adult is  reported
  to be missing

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1.   This act shall be known  and  may  be  cited  as  "Lamont
Dottin's law".
  S  2.  The executive law is amended by adding a new section 837-f-2 to
read as follows:
  S 837-F-2. MISSING ADULTS. IN THE EVENT THAT A POLICE AGENCY  RECEIVES
A  REPORT  THAT  A PERSON IS MISSING FROM HIS OR HER NORMAL AND ORDINARY
PLACE OF RESIDENCE AND WHOSE  WHEREABOUTS  CANNOT  BE  DETERMINED  BY  A
PERSON  WHOSE  RELATIONSHIP WITH SUCH PERSON WOULD PLACE THEM IN A POSI-
TION TO HAVE KNOWLEDGE OF THEIR WHEREABOUTS,  AND  SUCH  MISSING  PERSON
DOES  NOT  QUALIFY  AS  EITHER A MISSING CHILD PURSUANT TO SECTION EIGHT
HUNDRED THIRTY-SEVEN-E OF THE EXECUTIVE LAW OR A VULNERABLE ADULT PURSU-
ANT TO EXECUTIVE LAW SECTION EIGHT HUNDRED THIRTY-SEVEN-1 OF THE  EXECU-
TIVE  LAW, THE POLICE AGENCY SHALL COLLECT INFORMATION NECESSARY TO FILE
AN ELECTRONIC REPORT WITH THE NATIONAL CRIME INFORMATION  CENTER  REGIS-
TER.  WITHIN  TWENTY-FOUR  HOURS  OF  COLLECTING THE INFORMATION, IF THE
POLICE AGENCY HAS NOT BEEN NOTIFIED THAT THE  MISSING  PERSON  HAS  BEEN
LOCATED,  THE  POLICE AGENCY SHALL SUBMIT AN ELECTRONIC REPORT REGARDING
THE MISSING PERSON WITH THE NATIONAL CRIME INFORMATION CENTER REGISTER.
  S 3. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
have become a law.



 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD15562-04-4


              

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