Bill Text: NY S01716 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 1716 (Prior Session Legislation)

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) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO DISABILITIES [S01716 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S01716-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          1716

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 14, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sens. GALLIVAN, AKSHAR -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee on 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.
                                                                   LBD04167-01-1