Bill Text: NY A03915 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires law enforcement agencies to report sex offender changes of address within five business days to the division of criminal justice services.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 18-6)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - ordered to third reading cal.294 [A03915 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A03915-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         3915--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 30, 2017
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. ZEBROWSKI, SKOUFIS, JAFFEE, OTIS, SIMANOWITZ,
          ROSENTHAL, TITONE, COLTON, McDONALD,  GALEF,  M. G. MILLER,  BUCHWALD,
          MONTESANO, RAIA, BRABENEC, CROUCH, GRAF -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of
          A.  ABBATE,  HEVESI,  LOPEZ, LUPARDO, MAGEE, McDONOUGH, THIELE -- 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 reporting sex offen-
          der changes of address to the division of criminal justice services
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  4 of section 168-f of the correction law, as
     2  amended by chapter 67 of the  laws  of  2008,  is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    4.  Any  sex  offender  shall  register  with  the  division, or a law
     5  enforcement agency having jurisdiction, no later than ten calendar  days
     6  after  any  change  of  address,  internet accounts with internet access
     7  providers belonging to such offender,  internet  identifiers  that  such
     8  offender  uses,  or his or her status of enrollment, attendance, employ-
     9  ment or residence at any institution of higher  education.  If  any  sex
    10  offender  submits  a  change of address, internet accounts with internet
    11  access providers belonging to such offender, internet  identifiers  that
    12  such  offender  uses,  or  his  or her status of enrollment, attendance,
    13  employment or residence at any institution or higher education to a  law
    14  enforcement  agency  having  jurisdiction,  the  law  enforcement agency
    15  shall, within five business days, forward the form to the division.  The
    16  law enforcement agency shall provide a copy of the completed form to the
    17  offender  and  retain  a  copy for its records. A fee of ten dollars, as
    18  authorized by subdivision eight of section one hundred sixty-eight-b  of
    19  this  article,  shall  be  submitted  by the sex offender each time such
    20  offender registers any change of address or any change  of  his  or  her
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02447-03-7
        A. 3915--A                          2
     1  status  of enrollment, attendance, employment or residence at any insti-
     2  tution of higher education.  Any  failure  or  omission  to  submit  the
     3  required  fee  shall  not  affect  the acceptance by the division of the
     4  change of address or change of status.
     5    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.