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Int 0758-2018

Requiring that missing persons reports be checked prior to a city burial.

IntroductionFiledCommittee on Healthintroduced 2018-04-11

Filed — closed without being enacted.

Official record · Legistar

Agenda: 2018-04-11Passed: 2021-12-31

Summary

This bill would require the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, which is responsible for the disposal of unidentified or unclaimed human remains, to check missing persons records for suspected matches and contact family members who have reported any such suspected match as missing for the purposes of identifying the remains.

Committee on Health — Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Office of the Chief Medical Examiner and EMS (health-related issues).

How it compares

40% of similar bills passed

20 passed · 30 died

This bill: 1360 days in committee

Similar bills: median 452 days · 145 days when passed

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Sponsors (3)

Vanessa L. Gibson(prime)
I. Daneek Miller
Laurie A. Cumbo

Lifecycle

IntroducedIntroduced by Council
2018-04-11 · City Council
ActionReferred to Comm by Council
2018-04-11 · City Council
ClosedFiled (End of Session)
2021-12-31 · City Council

Heard at (1)

City Council · 2018-04-11 · 1:30 PM · Council Chambers - City Hall

Attachments (5)

Full text
Be it enacted by the Council as follows: Section 1. Chapter 2 of title 17 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 17-209 to read as follows: � 17-209 Missing persons reports and city burials. The chief medical examiner shall make reasonable efforts to check missing persons reports and databases for possible matches with unidentified human remains in the possession of the chief medical examiner, and shall make reasonable efforts to contact any family member who has reported such missing person, prior to transferring such remains to the department of correction or other city agency for the purposes of a city burial. � 2. This local law takes effect 60 days after it becomes law. ZH LS 5533 LS 6300/2015/ Int. 1027/2015 02/01/18 2