Assembly Bill A7468

Vetoed By Governor
2015-2016 Legislative Session

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

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Archive: Last Bill Status Via S3790 - Vetoed by Governor

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

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2015-A7468 (ACTIVE) - Details

See other versions of this Bill:
S3790 ,
A3917 ,
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Add §837-f-2, Exec L
Versions Introduced in 2013-2014 Legislative Session:
A10149, S7864

2015-A7468 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2015-A7468 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  7468

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              May 12, 2015
                               ___________

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

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 SECTION EIGHT HUNDRED THIRTY-SEVEN-F-1 OF THE EXECUTIVE LAW, THE
POLICE AGENCY SHALL COLLECT INFORMATION NECESSARY TO FILE AN  ELECTRONIC
REPORT WITH THE NATIONAL CRIME INFORMATION CENTER REGISTER. WITHIN TWEN-
TY-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.
                                                           LBD07820-01-5

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