Assembly Bill A10278A

Signed By Governor
2015-2016 Legislative Session

Relates to the identification of unknown dead and missing persons

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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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co-Sponsors

2015-A10278 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7987
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §838, Exec L

2015-A10278 - Summary

Relates to the identification of unknown dead and missing persons; requires the county medical examiner and coroner to provide certain information to the division of criminal justice services and to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System created by the Office of Justice Program's National Institute of Justice.

2015-A10278 - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  10278

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              May 20, 2016
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of  A. OTIS, LENTOL -- read once and referred to the
  Committee on Governmental Operations

AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to the identification  of
  unknown dead and missing persons

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

  Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section  838  of  the  executive  law,  as
amended  by  chapter  331  of  the  laws  of 2014, is amended to read as
follows:
  1. Every county medical examiner and coroner  shall  PROMPTLY  furnish
the  division  [promptly]  AND  THE  NATIONAL  MISSING  AND UNIDENTIFIED
PERSONS SYSTEM CREATED BY  THE  OFFICE  OF  JUSTICE  PROGRAM'S  NATIONAL
INSTITUTE  OF JUSTICE, with copies of fingerprints on standardized eight
inch by eight inch fingerprint cards, personal  descriptions  and  other
identifying  data,  including  date  and place of death, of all deceased
persons whose deaths are in a classification requiring  inquiry  by  the
coroner  where the deceased is not identified or the medical examiner or
coroner is not satisfied with the decedent's identification.  The  divi-
sion shall promptly make available personal descriptions and other iden-
tifying  data,  including  date  and  place  of  death, of such deceased
persons to all law enforcement agencies in the state, and upon  request,
to law enforcement agencies outside of the state.
  S  2.  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.
                                                           LBD15326-01-6

co-Sponsors

2015-A10278A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7987
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §838, Exec L

2015-A10278A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the identification of unknown dead and missing persons; requires the county medical examiner and coroner to provide certain information to the division of criminal justice services and to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System created by the Office of Justice Program's National Institute of Justice.

2015-A10278A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                10278--A

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              May 20, 2016
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. OTIS, LENTOL, JOYNER -- read once and referred to
  the  Committee  on Governmental Operations -- reported and referred to
  the Committee on Codes -- reported and referred to  the  Committee  on
  Rules  --  Rules Committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted
  as amended and recommitted to the Committee on Rules

AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to the identification  of
  unknown dead and missing persons

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

  Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section  838  of  the  executive  law,  as
amended  by  chapter  331  of  the  laws  of 2014, is amended to read as
follows:
  1. Every county medical examiner and coroner  shall  PROMPTLY  furnish
the  division  [promptly]  AND  THE  NATIONAL  MISSING  AND UNIDENTIFIED
PERSONS SYSTEM CREATED BY  THE  OFFICE  OF  JUSTICE  PROGRAM'S  NATIONAL
INSTITUTE  OF JUSTICE, with copies of fingerprints on standardized eight
inch by eight inch fingerprint cards OR THE  EQUIVALENT  DIGITAL  IMAGE,
personal  descriptions  and  other  identifying data, including date and
place of death, of all deceased persons whose deaths are  in  a  classi-
fication  requiring inquiry by the MEDICAL EXAMINER OR coroner where the
deceased is not identified or the medical examiner  or  coroner  is  not
satisfied with the decedent's identification. The division shall prompt-
ly  make  available  personal  descriptions  and other identifying data,
including date and place of death, of such deceased persons to  all  law
enforcement  agencies in the state, and upon request, to law enforcement
agencies outside of the state.
  S 2. 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.
                                                           LBD15326-02-6

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