Requires school principals to review the list of school age missing children supplied by the department of education on a monthly basis to determine whether attending students appear therein; such principals shall immediately notify the appropriate local, state or federal law enforcement agency.
BILL NUMBER:A10544
TITLE OF BILL:
An act
to amend the education law and the executive law, in relation to the
compilation and dissemination of a monthly list of missing school
children
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
To require a monthly check of all schools for missing children.
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:
Directs school principals to compare
the list of missing children received from the State Education
Department with the school's attendance list. Directs such principal
to notify at once the appropriate law enforcement agency.
EFFECTS OF PRESENT LAW WHICH THIS BILL WOULD ALTER:
Adds new paragraph
(b) to subdivision four of section 3211 of the Education Law. Amends
subdivision three of section 837-f of the Executive Law.
JUSTIFICATION:
Many missing children are later enrolled in new schools
within the state. A monthly list would allow authorities to conduct a
thorough and timely check of schools for these children.
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________
10544
I N A S S E M B L Y
April 2, 2010
___________
Introduced by M. of A. TEDISCO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
BACALLES, BURLING, CALHOUN, CROUCH, KOLB, J. MILLER, SAYWARD, SPANO --
read once and referred to the Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law and the executive law, in relation to
the compilation and dissemination of a monthly list of missing school
children
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. The opening paragraph of subdivision 4 of section 3211 of
the education law is designated paragraph (a) and a new paragraph (b) is
added to read as follows:
(B) THE PRINCIPAL OF A SCHOOL, OR OTHER PERSON IN CHARGE OF THE
INSTRUCTION UPON WHICH A MINOR ATTENDS, SHALL EACH MONTH REVIEW THE LIST
OF MISSING SCHOOL AGE CHILDREN PROVIDED EACH MONTH TO THE SCHOOL PURSU-
ANT TO SUBDIVISION TEN OF SECTION EIGHT HUNDRED THIRTY-SEVEN-F OF THE
EXECUTIVE LAW, IN ORDER TO DETERMINE WHETHER ANY OF THE STUDENTS IN
ATTENDANCE AT SUCH SCHOOL IS INCLUDED ON SUCH LIST. IF SUCH DETERMI-
NATION IS MADE, SUCH PRINCIPAL OR OTHER PERSON IN CHARGE OF INSTRUCTION
SHALL IMMEDIATELY NOTIFY THE APPROPRIATE LOCAL, STATE OR FEDERAL LAW
ENFORCEMENT AGENCY.
S 2. Subdivision 10 of section 837-f of the executive law, as added by
chapter 880 of the laws of 1986, is amended to read as follows:
10. Beginning on January first, nineteen hundred eighty-seven, dissem-
inate, on a [regular] MONTHLY basis, a bulletin containing information
on children in the missing children's register to the state education
department which shall then forward such bulletin to every public and
private school where parents, guardians or others legally responsible
for such children have given consent. THE PRINCIPAL OF A SCHOOL, OR
OTHER PERSON IN CHARGE OF THE INSTRUCTION UPON WHICH A MINOR ATTENDS,
SHALL EACH MONTH REVIEW THE LIST OF MISSING SCHOOL AGE CHILDREN PROVIDED
TO THE SCHOOL PURSUANT TO THIS SUBDIVISION, IN ORDER TO DETERMINE WHETH-
ER ANY OF THE STUDENTS IN ATTENDANCE AT SUCH SCHOOL IS INCLUDED ON SUCH
LIST. IF SUCH DETERMINATION IS MADE, SUCH PRINCIPAL OR OTHER PERSON IN
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD15864-01-0
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