Bill Text: NY S07987 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

---

Bill Title: 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.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-06-16 - SUBSTITUTED BY A10278A [S07987 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S07987-Amended.html

---

                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                         7987--A
                    IN SENATE
                                      June 2, 2016
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  SAVINO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to  the  Committee  on  Finance  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee
        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:
     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of  section  838 of the executive law, as
     2  amended by chapter 331 of the laws  of  2014,  is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    1.  Every  county  medical examiner and coroner shall promptly furnish
     5  the division  [promptly]  and  the  National  Missing  and  Unidentified
     6  Persons  System  created  by  the  Office  of Justice Program's National
     7  Institute of Justice, with copies of fingerprints on standardized  eight
     8  inch  by  eight  inch fingerprint cards or the equivalent digital image,
     9  personal descriptions and other identifying  data,  including  date  and
    10  place  of  death,  of all deceased persons whose deaths are in a classi-
    11  fication requiring inquiry by the medical examiner or coroner where  the
    12  deceased  is  not  identified  or the medical examiner or coroner is not
    13  satisfied with the decedent's identification. The division shall prompt-
    14  ly make available personal  descriptions  and  other  identifying  data,
    15  including  date  and place of death, of such deceased persons to all law
    16  enforcement agencies in the state, and upon request, to law  enforcement
    17  agencies outside of the state.
    18    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
    19  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15326-03-6