Senate Bill S7304

Signed By Governor
2017-2018 Legislative Session

Requires the transmission of reports of missing persons to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System

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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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2017-S7304 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A8942
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§837-e & 837-f-2, Exec L (as proposed in S. 6739 and A. 8286-B)

2017-S7304 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the transmission of reports of missing persons to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System within thirty days when such person may be at immediate risk of death or injury or a match to a record maintained in the NamUs database or within one hundred eighty days in any other case.

2017-S7304 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S7304 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7304
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              January 5, 2018
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  SAVINO -- 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  the  transmission  of
   reports  of  missing  persons to the National Missing and Unidentified
   Persons System
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision 1-b of section 837-e of the executive law, as
 added by a chapter of the laws  of  2017  amending  the  executive  law,
 relating  to  the  transmission  of  reports  of  missing persons to the
 National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, as proposed in  legis-
 lative  bills  numbers  S.  6739  and  A.  8286-B, is amended to read as
 follows:
   1-b. The division shall transmit the report of the  missing  child  to
 the  National  Missing  and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) no later
 than thirty days after entry of a report of a  missing  child  into  the
 register  WHENEVER  CIRCUMSTANCES INDICATE THAT THE MISSING CHILD MAY BE
 AT IMMEDIATE RISK OF DEATH OR INJURY, OR MAY BE  A  MATCH  TO  A  RECORD
 MAINTAINED  IN  THE  NAMUS  UNIDENTIFIED  PERSON DATABASE AND WITHIN ONE
 HUNDRED EIGHTY DAYS IN ANY OTHER CASE.
   § 2. Paragraph (g) of subdivision 4 of section 837-e of the  executive
 law  as  added  by  a chapter of the laws of 2017 amending the executive
 law, relating to the transmission of reports of missing persons  to  the
 National  Missing and Unidentified Persons System, as proposed in legis-
 lative bills numbers S. 6739 and A.  8286-B,  are  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   (g) establishing procedures for transmitting [a report] REPORTS of [a]
 missing  [child] CHILDREN AND ADULTS to the National Missing and Uniden-
 tified Persons System (NamUs) pursuant  to  subdivision  one-b  of  this
 section AND SECTION EIGHT HUNDRED THIRTY-SEVEN-F-TWO OF THIS ARTICLE.
   §  3.  Section  837-f-2 of the executive law, as added by a chapter of
 the laws of 2017 amending the executive  law,  relating  to  the  trans-
 mission  of  reports  of  missing  persons  to  the National Missing and
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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