NY S07304

Amends Executive Law section 837-e to modify the timeline for transmitting missing child reports to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs), requiring submission within 30 days if circumstances indicate immediate risk of death or injury or a potential match to an unidentified person record, or within 180 days in all other cases.

Expands the scope of NamUs reporting procedures to include both missing children and missing adults, rather than children alone.

Establishes new section 837-f-2 to define missing adults eligible for reporting as those with proven disabilities, in physical danger, missing after catastrophes, missing involuntarily, or missing under circumstances raising reasonable safety concerns.

Transfers responsibility for submitting missing adult reports from individual police agencies to the division, consistent with the process for missing children.

Takes effect on the same date as the related 2017 legislation addressing missing persons reporting to NamUs (as proposed in S.6739 and A.8286-B).