NY State Senate Bill 2013-S7864

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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- 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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	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Jun 19, 2014	referred to governmental operations delivered to assembly passed senate ordered to third reading cal.1631
Jun 16, 2014	referred to rules

Votes

- Jun 19, 2014 - Floor Vote
  S7864
  
  58
  
  Aye
  
  0
  
  Nay
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  3
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Floor Vote: Jun 19, 2014
      
      aye (58)
      
      Addabbo Jr.
      
      Avella
      
      Ball
      
      Bonacic
      
      Boyle
      
      Breslin
      
      Carlucci
      
      DeFrancisco
      
      Dilan
      
      Farley
      
      Felder
      
      Flanagan
      
      Gallivan
      
      Gianaris
      
      Gipson
      
      Golden
      
      Griffo
      
      Grisanti
      
      Hannon
      
      Hoylman-Sigal
      
      Kennedy
      
      Klein
      
      Krueger
      
      LaValle
      
      Lanza
      
      Larkin
      
      Latimer
      
      Libous
      
      Little
      
      Marcellino
      
      Marchione
      
      Martins
      
      Maziarz
      
      Montgomery
      
      Nozzolio
      
      O'Brien
      
      O'Mara
      
      Parker
      
      Peralta
      
      Perkins
      
      Ranzenhofer
      
      Ritchie
      
      Rivera
      
      Robach
      
      Sampson
      
      Sanders Jr.
      
      Savino
      
      Serrano
      
      Seward
      
      Skelos
      
      Smith
      
      Squadron
      
      Stavisky
      
      Stewart-Cousins
      
      Tkaczyk
      
      Valesky
      
      Young
      
      Zeldin
      
      excused (3)
      
      Diaz
      
      Espaillat
      
      Hassell-Thompson
  Jun 19, 2014 - Rules Committee Vote
  S7864
  
  23
  
  Aye
  
  0
  
  Nay
  
  0
  
  Aye with Reservations
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  2
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Rules Committee Vote: Jun 19, 2014
      
      aye (23)
      
      Bonacic
      
      Breslin
      
      Carlucci
      
      Dilan
      
      Farley
      
      Flanagan
      
      Gianaris
      
      Hannon
      
      Krueger
      
      LaValle
      
      Larkin
      
      Libous
      
      Little
      
      Marcellino
      
      Maziarz
      
      Montgomery
      
      Nozzolio
      
      Parker
      
      Perkins
      
      Seward
      
      Skelos
      
      Stewart-Cousins
      
      Valesky
      
      excused (2)
      
      Espaillat
      
      Hassell-Thompson

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

                                BILL NUMBER:S7864

TITLE OF BILL:  An act to amend the executive law, in relation to
requiring police agencies to take reports of missing adults whenever
the adult is reported to be missing

PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL: To amend the executive law in
relation to requiring police agencies to take reports of missing
adults whenever the adult is reported to be missing.

SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1 sets forth that this act shall be known and may be cited as
"Lamont Dottin's law".

Section 2 establishes in the event a police agency receives a report
of a missing person, and such person does not qualify as a missing
child or an a vulnerable adult, the police agency shall collect the
information required to file an electronic report to the National
Crime Information Center Register. Within 24 hours of taking the
report, if the police agency has not been notified that the person has
been located, the police agency shall submit the report to the
National Crime Information Center Register.

JUSTIFICATION:  Anita Fowler's son, LaMont Dottin, was a freshman at
Queens College (CUNY) when he disappeared on October 18, 1995 after

leaving his grandmother's house to mail a package to his mother, who
was in California. Dr. Fowler returned immediately to New York and
began searching for her son. She tried to report him as missing, but
due to police regulations she was unable to file a report until
November 13, 1995. Dr. Fowler searched for five years, when she found
that her son's body was found six days after she reported him as
missing and lay unidentified in a grave at Potter's Field since
February 1996.  This legislation seeks to prevent future confusion and
heartache by requiring law enforcement to take a report whenever a
person is reported missing and send such report to the National Crime
Information Center Register.

This will create a permanent record of all reports of missing persons.
This will assist law enforcement in searching for such person if it is
determined subsequent that such person is indeed missing. Further, in
the event the missing person is located in either a hospital or a
morgue, this registry will assist in identifying the person and will
reunite the missing person with his or her family or, if the person is
deceased, it will help the family some semblance of closure.

PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: New Bill.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS: None to the state.

EFFECTIVE DATE: This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after
it shall have become a law.

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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