Bill Text: NY A00112 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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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: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - referred to correction [A00112 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A00112-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        112--A
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 7, 2015
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       Introduced by M. of A. SIMANOWITZ, McDONOUGH -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.
         of  A. HOOPER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Correction
         -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered  reprinted  as  amended
         and recommitted to said committee
       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  SEXUALLY VIOLENT CRIME AGAINST A CHILD SHALL WEAR AN ELECTRONIC MONITOR-
   17  ING DEVICE FOR THE DURATION OF HIS OR HER LIFE. SUCH SEX OFFENDER  SHALL
   18  BEAR THE 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 sexually violent crime against a child on or after
   22  the effective date of this act.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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