A10278 Summary:
BILL NO | A10278A |
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SAME AS | SAME AS S07987-A |
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SPONSOR | Otis |
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COSPNSR | Lentol, Joyner |
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MLTSPNSR | |
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Amd §838, Exec L | |
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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. |
A10278 Actions:
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05/20/2016 | referred to governmental operations | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
06/01/2016 | reported referred to codes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
06/06/2016 | reported referred to rules | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
06/07/2016 | amend and recommit to rules 10278a | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
06/08/2016 | reported | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
06/08/2016 | rules report cal.205 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
06/08/2016 | ordered to third reading rules cal.205 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
06/14/2016 | passed assembly | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
06/14/2016 | delivered to senate | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
06/14/2016 | REFERRED TO RULES | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
06/16/2016 | SUBSTITUTED FOR S7987A | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
06/16/2016 | 3RD READING CAL.1913 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
06/16/2016 | PASSED SENATE | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
06/16/2016 | RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
07/13/2016 | delivered to governor | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
07/21/2016 | signed chap.153 |
A10278 Committee Votes:
Peoples-Stokes | Aye | Duprey | Excused | ||||||
Galef | Aye | Goodell | Aye | ||||||
Benedetto | Aye | Johns | Aye | ||||||
Glick | Aye | Lalor | Aye | ||||||
Schimel | Aye | ||||||||
Kim | Excused | ||||||||
Buchwald | Aye | ||||||||
Dilan | Aye | ||||||||
Bichotte | Aye | ||||||||
Blake | Aye | ||||||||
Lentol | Aye | Graf | Aye | ||||||
Schimminger | Aye | Giglio | Aye | ||||||
Weinstein | Aye | McKevitt | Aye | ||||||
Hevesi | Aye | Montesano | Aye | ||||||
Wright | Absent | Ra | Aye | ||||||
Pretlow | Aye | Tenney | Aye | ||||||
Cook | Aye | ||||||||
Cymbrowitz | Aye | ||||||||
Titus | Aye | ||||||||
O'Donnell | Aye | ||||||||
Lavine | Aye | ||||||||
Perry | Aye | ||||||||
Zebrowski | Aye | ||||||||
Abinanti | Aye | ||||||||
Weprin | Aye | ||||||||
Mosley | Aye | ||||||||
Heastie | Aye | Kolb | Aye | ||||||
Gottfried | Aye | Tedisco | Aye | ||||||
Lentol | Aye | Oaks | Aye | ||||||
Farrell | Aye | Butler | Aye | ||||||
Gantt | Aye | Crouch | Aye | ||||||
Nolan | Excused | Finch | Aye | ||||||
Weinstein | Aye | Barclay | Aye | ||||||
Hooper | Aye | Raia | Aye | ||||||
Ortiz | Aye | Duprey | Aye | ||||||
Pretlow | Aye | ||||||||
Cook | Aye | ||||||||
Glick | Aye | ||||||||
Morelle | Aye | ||||||||
Aubry | Aye | ||||||||
Englebright | Aye | ||||||||
Wright | Aye | ||||||||
Dinowitz | Aye | ||||||||
Colton | Aye | ||||||||
Magnarelli | Aye | ||||||||
Perry | Aye | ||||||||
Markey | Aye | ||||||||
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A10278 Floor Votes:
Yes
Abbate
Yes
Crespo
Yes
Gottfried
Yes
Lopez
Yes
Palumbo
ER
Simon
Yes
Abinanti
Yes
Crouch
Yes
Graf
Yes
Lupardo
Yes
Paulin
Yes
Simotas
Yes
Arroyo
Yes
Curran
Yes
Gunther
Yes
Lupinacci
Yes
Peoples-Stokes
Yes
Skartados
Yes
Aubry
Yes
Cusick
Yes
Harris
Yes
Magee
Yes
Perry
Yes
Skoufis
Yes
Barclay
Yes
Cymbrowitz
Yes
Hawley
Yes
Magnarelli
Yes
Pichardo
Yes
Solages
Yes
Barrett
Yes
Davila
Yes
Hevesi
Yes
Malliotakis
Yes
Pretlow
Yes
Stec
Yes
Barron
Yes
DenDekker
Yes
Hikind
Yes
Markey
Yes
Quart
Yes
Steck
Yes
Benedetto
Yes
Dilan
Yes
Hooper
Yes
Mayer
Yes
Ra
Yes
Stirpe
Yes
Bichotte
Yes
Dinowitz
Yes
Hunter
Yes
McDonald
Yes
Raia
Yes
Tedisco
Yes
Blake
ER
DiPietro
Yes
Hyndman
Yes
McDonough
Yes
Ramos
Yes
Tenney
Yes
Blankenbush
Yes
Duprey
Yes
Jaffee
Yes
McKevitt
Yes
Richardson
Yes
Thiele
Yes
Brabenec
Yes
Englebright
Yes
Jean-Pierre
Yes
McLaughlin
Yes
Rivera
Yes
Titone
Yes
Braunstein
Yes
Fahy
Yes
Johns
Yes
Miller
Yes
Robinson
Yes
Titus
ER
Brennan
Yes
Farrell
Yes
Joyner
Yes
Montesano
Yes
Rodriguez
Yes
Walker
Yes
Brindisi
ER
Finch
Yes
Katz
Yes
Morelle
Yes
Rosenthal
ER
Walter
Yes
Bronson
Yes
Fitzpatrick
Yes
Kavanagh
Yes
Mosley
Yes
Rozic
Yes
Weinstein
Yes
Buchwald
Yes
Friend
Yes
Kearns
Yes
Moya
Yes
Russell
Yes
Weprin
Yes
Butler
Yes
Galef
Yes
Kim
Yes
Murray
Yes
Ryan
Yes
Williams
Yes
Cahill
Yes
Gantt
Yes
Kolb
ER
Nojay
Yes
Saladino
Yes
Woerner
Yes
Cancel
Yes
Garbarino
Yes
Lalor
Yes
Nolan
Yes
Santabarbara
Yes
Wozniak
Yes
Castorina
Yes
Giglio
Yes
Lavine
Yes
Oaks
Yes
Schimel
ER
Wright
Yes
Ceretto
Yes
Gjonaj
Yes
Lawrence
ER
O'Donnell
Yes
Schimminger
Yes
Zebrowski
Yes
Colton
Yes
Glick
Yes
Lentol
Yes
Ortiz
Yes
Seawright
Yes
Mr. Speaker
Yes
Cook
Yes
Goldfeder
Yes
Lifton
Yes
Otis
Yes
Sepulveda
Yes
Corwin
Yes
Goodell
Yes
Linares
Yes
Palmesano
ER
Simanowitz
‡ Indicates voting via videoconference
A10278 Memo:
Go to topNEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY
MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION
submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)   BILL NUMBER: A10278A SPONSOR: Otis
  TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the executive law, in relation to the identification of unknown dead and missing persons   SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: Section 1 of this legislation amends subsection 1 of section 838 of the Executive Law, creating a requirement that, upon receipt of unidentified remains, all county medical examiners will be required to report identi- fying information of those remains to the National Missing and Unidenti- fied Persons System. This legislation also updates the language of the existing section regarding copies of fingerprints to include "or the equivalent digital image", an option currently utilized by medical exam- iners. Section 2 specifies that this act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall become law.   JUSTIFICATION: Nationwide, medical examiners and coroners handle approximately 4,400 unidentified human decedent cases annually, nearly a quarter of which remain unidentified after one year. Many remains are buried without identification. It is estimated that only 15% of unidentified remains are reported to federal databases. To remedy this situation, the US Department of Justice established and maintains the National Missing and Unidentified Remains System (NamUs) that serves as a national database of information pertaining to unidentified remains. The identifying information, which is entered online by medical examiners, can then be accessed by law enforcement agencies and family members who are trying to find their missing loved ones. The staggering number of missing and unidentified remains in the United States signals the need for every state to improve their requirements for sharing this information with federal and other state authorities. Under current law, all county medical examiners in the state are required to report information about unidentified remains to the NYS Division of Criminal Justice Services. Some, but not all, medical exam- iner offices voluntarily report identifying information of these remains to the NamUs System. However, there is presently no state law require- ment that they convey this information to the national NamUs database. This legislation would promote more comprehensive sharing of identifying information by including reporting to NamUs in the state statute that covers the reporting of unidentified remains by coroners and medical examiners. By requiring all medical examiners in the state to report all identify- ing information on unidentified remains to NamUs, there will be a great- er chance that a law enforcement agency or family member will be able to identify the remains as those of a specific missing person. This legis- lation will strengthen the probability of identifying remains, help to solve crimes and, perhaps most importantly, bring closure to families of missing individuals.   PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: None   FISCAL IMPLICATIONS: None to the State of New York   EFFECTIVE DATE: This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall have become law.
A10278 Text:
Go to top STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 10278--A IN ASSEMBLY May 20, 2016 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. OTIS, LENTOL, JOYNER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations -- reported and referred to the Committee on Codes -- reported and referred to the Committee on Rules -- Rules Committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to the Committee on Rules 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. LBD15326-02-6