Bill Text: NY A07049 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that the commissioner of social services for Suffolk county shall notify local law enforcement agencies when a homeless sex offender is placed in temporary emergency housing.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - referred to social services [A07049 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A07049-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         7049
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    April 11, 2011
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       Introduced  by  M.  of A. THIELE, RAMOS -- read once and referred to the
         Committee on Social Services
       AN ACT to amend the social services  law  and  the  correction  law,  in
         relation to temporary emergency housing for sex offenders
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Section 136 of the social services law is amended by adding
    2  a new subdivision 6 to read as follows:
    3    6. NOTWITHSTANDING THE PROVISIONS OF SUBDIVISION TWO OF THIS  SECTION,
    4  IN THE EVENT THAT THE COMMISSIONER OF SOCIAL SERVICES FOR SUFFOLK COUNTY
    5  PLACES  A  HOMELESS  SEX  OFFENDER  INTO ANY FORM OF TEMPORARY EMERGENCY
    6  HOUSING, SUCH COMMISSIONER SHALL, WITHIN TWENTY-FOUR HOURS,  NOTIFY  THE
    7  LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY AND PROVIDE THE NAME AND ADDRESS OF THE SEX
    8  OFFENDER BEING PLACED.
    9    S  2.  Section  168-f of the correction law is amended by adding a new
   10  subdivision 7 to read as follows:
   11    7. IN THE EVENT THAT THE COMMISSIONER OF SOCIAL SERVICES  FOR  SUFFOLK
   12  COUNTY  PLACES  A HOMELESS SEX OFFENDER INTO ANY FORM OF TEMPORARY EMER-
   13  GENCY HOUSING, SUCH COMMISSIONER SHALL, WITHIN TWENTY-FOUR HOURS, NOTIFY
   14  THE LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY AND PROVIDE THE NAME AND ADDRESS OF THE
   15  SEX OFFENDER BEING PLACED.
   16    S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD08177-01-1