Bill Text: NY A09194 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Requires any level three sex offender who has committed a violent crime against a child to wear an electronic monitoring device for life; provides that such sex offender shall bear the cost of such device.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-03-27 - referred to correction [A09194 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A09194-Introduced.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         9194
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    March 27, 2014
                                      ___________
       Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  SIMANOWITZ  -- read once and referred to the
         Committee on Correction
       AN ACT to amend the correction law, in  relation  to  requiring  certain
         level  three sex offenders to wear an electronic monitoring device for
         life
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (b-2) of subdivision 2 of section 168-f of the
    2  correction law, as added by section 2 of part O of  chapter  56  of  the
    3  laws of 2005, is amended to read as follows:
    4    (b-2) If the sex offender has been given a level three designation, he
    5  or  she  shall  personally  appear  at the law enforcement agency having
    6  jurisdiction within twenty days of the  first  anniversary  of  the  sex
    7  offender's  initial  registration  and  every year thereafter during the
    8  period of registration for the purpose of providing a current photograph
    9  of such offender. The law enforcement agency having  jurisdiction  shall
   10  photograph  the  sex  offender and shall promptly forward a copy of such
   11  photograph to the division. For purposes of this paragraph, if such  sex
   12  offender  is  confined  in  a  state or local correctional facility, the
   13  local law enforcement agency having jurisdiction shall  be  the  warden,
   14  superintendent,  sheriff or other person in charge of the state or local
   15  correctional facility.  SUCH SEX OFFENDER WHO HAS BEEN CONVICTED OF  ANY
   16  VIOLENT CRIME AGAINST A CHILD SHALL WEAR AN ELECTRONIC MONITORING DEVICE
   17  FOR  THE  DURATION  OF HIS OR HER LIFE. SUCH SEX OFFENDER SHALL BEAR THE
   18  COST OF SUCH ELECTRONIC MONITORING DEVICE.
   19    S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
   20  it shall have become a law and shall apply to any level three sex offen-
   21  der convicted of any violent crime against  a  child  on  or  after  the
   22  effective date of this act.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD11374-01-3
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