Bill Text: NY S01205 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Relates to the development of a statewide missing person locator system; provides that such system utilize radiodetermination technology.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-14 - PRINT NUMBER 1205A [S01205 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S01205-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1205--A 2015-2016 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 9, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sen. CARLUCCI -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Mental Health and Develop- mental Disabilities -- recommitted to the Committee on Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, the elder law, the public health law, and the executive law, in relation to the establishment of a statewide vulnerable person location system The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Legislative intent. The legislature hereby finds that the 2 tragedy where Avonte Oquendo wandered away from his school never to be 3 found alive highlights the continuing need to find ways to protect the 4 most vulnerable individuals in our state and to help prevent this type 5 of tragedy from happening again. The legislature further finds that a 6 state-wide program designed to make it easier to locate missing vulner- 7 able persons is one such mechanism to achieve this goal. Therefore, the 8 legislature finds it appropriate to enact legislation herein to be known 9 as "Avonte's Law". 10 § 2. Section 5.05 of the mental hygiene law is amended by adding a new 11 subdivision (f) to read as follows: 12 (f) The commissioners of the office of mental health and the office 13 for people with developmental disabilities are hereby authorized and 14 instructed to promulgate rules and regulations and take all steps as may 15 be necessary to establish a missing person locator program, to be imple- 16 mented in every county in the state, that will make available to all 17 vulnerable or aging persons within their care at cost, upon request 18 personally or through an agent, parent or guardian, a personal locator 19 device to be placed on such individual and used in conjunction with the 20 statewide missing person locator system developed by the state police EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03058-02-6
