Bill Text: NY S00718 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to notice of transfer of sex offender to community program or residence.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES [S00718 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S00718-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 718 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 9, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. GALLIVAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Mental Health and Develop- mental Disabilities AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to notice of trans- fer of sex offender to community program or residence The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 13.09 of the mental hygiene law is amended by 2 adding a new subdivision (i) to read as follows: 3 (i) The commissioner shall notify the chief executive officer of any 4 municipality where a sex offender, as defined pursuant to subdivision 5 one of section one hundred sixty-eight-a of the correction law, is 6 transferred to a community program or residence within his or her muni- 7 cipality. The commissioner shall also notify the superintendent of 8 schools in which such facility is located. Notice shall be given no 9 later than ten calendar days prior to such transfer. 10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD02721-01-9
