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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         6710--A
 
                               2013-2014 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                     April 16, 2013
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by M. of A. MAYER -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Children and Families -- recommitted to the Committee  on  Children
          and  Families  in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee
 

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to missing  children  and
          vulnerable adults
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Section 837-m of the executive law, as added by chapter 579
     2  of the laws of 1997, is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 837-m. Reporting duties of law enforcement departments with  respect
     4  to  missing  children  and  vulnerable adults. The chief of every police
     5  department, each county sheriff and the superintendent of  state  police
     6  shall  report,  at  least semi-annually, to the division with respect to
     7  specified cases of missing children that are closed. Such reports  shall
     8  be  in  the form and manner prescribed by the division and shall contain
     9  such information as the division  deems  necessary  including,  but  not

    10  limited  to, information regarding recovered children who were arrested,
    11  children who were the victims of criminal activity or  exploitation  and
    12  children  who  were found deceased and information regarding the alleged
    13  abductor or killer of such children.   Any  law  enforcement  department
    14  referred  to  in  this  section  may, in its discretion, include in such
    15  semi-annual reports information relating to missing vulnerable adults as
    16  such term is defined in section eight hundred thirty-seven-f-one of this
    17  article.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
    19  have  become  a  law;  provided  however, that effective immediately the
    20  division of criminal justice services shall be authorized  and  directed
    21  to  amend, add or repeal any rule or regulation necessary for the imple-

    22  mentation of this act on its effective date.
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02289-05-4