A 6812 New York Assembly · 2025 Regular Session

Enacts "Destini Smothers' law"; requires collaboration between law enforcement agencies in missing persons investigations and provides support for relatives of such missing persons

Summary

Enacts "Destini Smothers' law"; requires collaboration between law enforcement agencies in missing persons investigations; provides support for relatives of such missing persons.

Issues: ✓ Criminal Justice

Sub-Topics: Law Enforcement

Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Mar 2025

Committee Review

Floor Vote

Governor

Introduced Mar 14, 2025 Last action Jan 7, 2026

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What changed between versions

A6812 → A6812A · 6 edits

MODERATE

This bill revision changes the bill number to A6812A, adds committee action indicating the bill was amended and recommitted, and significantly rewrites the substantive sections. The new version replaces the original text with a more comprehensive law enforcement collaboration plan for missing persons investigations, adds specific requirements about family offense victim identification, and establishes a notification schedule for relatives.

Scope change

The bill's scope expanded from primarily defining 'crime victim' and 'missing person' terms to establishing detailed operational requirements for law enforcement collaboration, including specific protocols for family offense victims and mandatory notification timelines for relatives.

TECHNICAL

Bill number changed from A6812 to A6812A and committee status updated to reflect amendment and recommitment.

DEFINITION

Original definitions for 'crime victim' and 'relative of a missing person' were removed and replaced with new substantive provisions.

REQUIREMENT

New requirement that police agencies must identify whether missing persons are victims of family offenses and share related records with other agencies.

Mandatory weekly notification schedule for relatives of missing persons, with initial notification within seven days of disappearance.

New provision creating a presumption that missing adults who are family offense victims are missing under circumstances involving safety concerns.

ENFORCEMENT

Changed responsibility from 'division' to 'commissioner' for developing the collaboration plan and updated the effective date to January 1, 2027.

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Committee

Amendments

Jan 7, 2026

Committee

REFERRED TO GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS

lower

Jun 9, 2025

Lower · Passed

PRINT NUMBER 6812A

lower

Jun 9, 2025

Lower · Passed

AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS

lower

Mar 14, 2025

Committee

REFERRED TO GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS

lower

1 primary · 0 co-sponsors