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NY A05200
Bill
Status
2/12/2025
Primary Sponsor
Karines Reyes
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AI Summary
- Establishes a specialized Missing Persons Unit within the New York State Police with advanced training in responding to missing persons reports
- Expands the existing Missing and Exploited Children Clearinghouse to include women, renaming it the Missing and Exploited Women and Children Clearinghouse
- Requires law enforcement training curriculum to include instruction on missing and exploited women and missing women and children of color and indigenous descent by January 1, 2027
- Mandates law enforcement departments report semi-annually on closed cases of missing women in addition to missing children and vulnerable adults
- Authorizes police to dispatch information about missing women over the police communication system and expands the clearinghouse fund to support recovery efforts for missing women
Legislative Description
Establishes a missing persons unit within the division of state police; adds women to the responsibility of the missing and exploited children clearinghouse; provides that by January first, two-thousand twenty-seven included in the curriculum for the training of law enforcement shall be missing and exploited women and missing and exploited women and children of color and indigenous descent; requires the reporting duties of law enforcement departments to include missing women, in addition to missing children and vulnerable adults; relates to the missing and exploited women and children clearinghouse fund; relates to the gift for missing and exploited women and children clearinghouse fund.
Last Action
reported referred to ways and means
2/25/2026