Senate Bill S3830

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Requires county medical examiners or coroners to give the state police forensic laboratory DNA samples of unidentified dead or alive and missing persons upon request

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  • Introduced
    • 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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2013-S3830 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A2319
Current Committee:
Senate Finance
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§838 & 995-d, Exec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A4533
2011-2012: A5166, A7292
2015-2016: S2170, A1853
2017-2018: S1725, A413
2019-2020: A3616
2021-2022: A5270
2023-2024: A4496

2013-S3830 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires county medical examiners or coroners to give the state police forensic laboratory DNA samples of unidentified dead or alive and missing persons upon request for the purpose of classification and for the state police to forward the samples to the state division of criminal justice services for the purpose of comparison to attempt to determine identity and for the purpose of filing; also provides for the forwarding of records to the National Crime Information Center upon such center adopting a policy to accept such records.

2013-S3830 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2013-S3830 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  3830

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            February 21, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced  by Sen. CARLUCCI -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance

AN ACT to amend the executive law, in  relation  to  the  classification
  procedure  and  use  of  DNA samples to identify unidentified dead and
  missing persons

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 838 of the executive law, as added
by chapter 670 of the laws of 1982, is amended to read as follows:
  1.  Every  county medical examiner and coroner shall furnish the divi-
sion promptly with copies of fingerprints on standardized eight inch  by
eight  inch  fingerprint  cards, SHALL FURNISH THE NEW YORK STATE POLICE
FORENSIC LABORATORY PROMPTLY WITH DNA SAMPLES  OF  DECEASED  PERSONS  OR
UNIDENTIFIED  BODY  PARTS,  FOR  THE  PURPOSE  OF  CLASSIFICATION, WHICH
SAMPLES SHALL THEN BE FORWARDED BY THE STATE POLICE FORENSIC  LABORATORY
TO  THE  DIVISION  FOR  THE  PURPOSE OF COMPARISON AND FILING, AND SHALL
FURNISH THE DIVISION PROMPTLY WITH personal descriptions and other iden-
tifying data, including date and place of death, of all deceased persons
whose deaths are in a classification requiring inquiry  by  the  coroner
where  the deceased is not identified or the medical examiner or coroner
is not satisfied with the decedent's identification.  THE DIVISION SHALL
FORWARD SUCH RECORDS REGARDING SUCH  DECEASED  PERSONS  OR  UNIDENTIFIED
BODY  PARTS  TO  THE  NATIONAL CRIME INFORMATION CENTER UPON SUCH CENTER
ADOPTING A POLICY TO ACCEPT SUCH RECORDS.
  S 2. Subdivision 4 of section 838 of the executive law,  as  added  by
chapter 670 of the laws of 1982, is amended to read as follows:
  4.  The  division  shall  compare  the  fingerprints  AND  DNA SAMPLES
received from the county medical examiners or coroners  to  fingerprints
AND DNA BAND PATTERNS on file with the division for purposes of attempt-
ing  to  determine  the identity of the deceased. Other descriptive data
supplied with the fingerprints shall also be compared to  records  main-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD04571-01-3
              

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