Bill Text: NY S01608 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 1608 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relates to the residence of sex offender registrants.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-06-08 - SUBSTITUTED BY A1819A [S01608 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S01608-Amended.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        1608--A
           Cal. No. 42
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   January 13, 2015
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       Introduced by Sens. BONACIC, FUNKE, LARKIN, LITTLE, MURPHY -- read twice
         and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee
         on  Crime  Victims,  Crime  and Correction -- committee discharged and
         said bill committed to the Committee on Rules  --  reported  favorably
         from  said committee, ordered to a third reading, passed by Senate and
         delivered to the Assembly, recalled, vote  reconsidered,  restored  to
         third  reading,  amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place in
         the order of third reading
       AN ACT to amend the correction law, in  relation  to  the  sex  offender
         registry
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Section 168-a of the correction law is amended by adding  a
    2  new subdivision 19 to read as follows:
    3    19.  "RESIDENCE"  MEANS  ANY  PLACE  WHERE  A SEX OFFENDER MAINTAINS A
    4  FIXED, PERMANENT HOME TO WHICH HE OR SHE, WHEN TEMPORARILY AWAY, INTENDS
    5  TO RETURN. NOTHING SHALL PROHIBIT, FOR  THE  PURPOSES  OF  THIS  ARTICLE
    6  ONLY, A PERSON FROM HAVING MULTIPLE RESIDENCES.
    7    S 2. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 168-b of the correction
    8  law, as amended by chapter 67 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as
    9  follows:
   10    (a)  The  sex  offender's  name, all aliases used, date of birth, sex,
   11  race, height, weight, eye color, driver's license number,  home  address
   12  and/or  expected  place of domicile, any internet accounts with internet
   13  access providers belonging to such  offender  and  internet  identifiers
   14  that  such  offender  uses. THE DIVISION SHALL QUESTION SUCH OFFENDER ON
   15  EACH REGISTRATION FORM WHETHER HE OR  SHE  HAS  MULTIPLE  RESIDENCES  AS
   16  DEFINED  IN SUBDIVISION NINETEEN OF SECTION ONE HUNDRED SIXTY-EIGHT-A OF
   17  THIS ARTICLE AND SHALL NOTIFY OFFENDERS OF THE REQUIREMENT  TO  REGISTER
   18  ALL SUCH RESIDENCES ANNUALLY.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD02170-03-5
       S. 1608--A                          2
    1    S  3.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    2  have become a law; provided  that,  the  division  of  criminal  justice
    3  services  shall, within one hundred eighty days of such date notify each
    4  offender of their affirmative obligation to update registration informa-
    5  tion to detail any changes required by this act.