Bill Text: NY S02173 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires sex offenders to verify their residence and registration on a biannual basis; provides that the division shall mail a verification form to each registered sex offender on a different random date during each six month period of the calendar year.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 6-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-05-08 - referred to correction [S02173 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S02173-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2173 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 12, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sens. SERINO, AVELLA, LANZA, LARKIN, SEWARD -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Crime Victims, Crime and Correction AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to requiring sex offen- ders to verify their registration with the sex offender registry on a biannual basis 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-b of the correction law, as 2 added by chapter 192 of the laws of 1995, is amended to read as follows: 3 4. The division shall, upon a different random date during each six 4 month period of the calendar year, mail a nonforwardable verification 5 form to the last reported address of the person for [annual] biannual 6 verification requirements. 7 § 2. The opening paragraph of subdivision 2 of section 168-f of the 8 correction law, as added by chapter 192 of the laws of 1995, is amended 9 to read as follows: 10 For a sex offender required to register under this article [on each11anniversary of the sex offender's initial registration date] upon 12 receipt of each randomly mailed biannual verification form during the 13 period in which he is required to register under this section the 14 following applies: 15 § 3. Subdivision 2 of section 168-g of the correction law, as amended 16 by section 18 of subpart B of part C of chapter 62 of the laws of 2011, 17 is amended to read as follows: 18 2. Every sex offender who on the effective date of this article is 19 then on community supervision or probation for an offense provided for 20 in subdivision two or three of section one hundred sixty-eight-a of this 21 article shall within ten calendar days of such determination register 22 with his parole or probation officer. [On each anniversary of] On and 23 after the sex offender's initial registration date [thereafter], the EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD04884-01-7S. 2173 2 1 provisions of section one hundred sixty-eight-f of this article shall be 2 deemed to apply to such offender. Any sex offender who fails or refuses 3 to so comply shall be subject to the same penalties as otherwise 4 provided for in this article which would be imposed upon a sex offender 5 who fails or refuses to so comply with the provisions of this article on 6 or after such effective date. 7 § 4. Subdivisions 1 and 2 of section 168-h of the correction law, as 8 amended by chapter 1 of the laws of 2006, are amended to read as 9 follows: 10 1. The duration of registration and verification for a sex offender 11 who has not been designated a sexual predator, or a sexually violent 12 offender, or a predicate sex offender, and who is classified as a level 13 one risk, or who has not yet received a risk level classification, shall 14 be [annually] biannually for a period of twenty years from the initial 15 date of registration. 16 2. The duration of registration and verification for a sex offender 17 who, on or after March eleventh, two thousand two, is designated a sexu- 18 al predator, or a sexually violent offender, or a predicate sex offen- 19 der, or who is classified as a level two or level three risk, shall be 20 [annually] biannually for life. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a sex 21 offender who is classified as a level two risk and who is not designated 22 a sexual predator, a sexually violent offender or a predicate sex offen- 23 der, may be relieved of the duty to register and verify as provided by 24 subdivision one of section one hundred sixty-eight-o of this article. 25 § 5. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed- 26 ing the date on which it shall have become a law, provided that any 27 rules, regulations and forms necessary to implement the provisions of 28 this act on its effective date are authorized and directed to be 29 completed on or before such date.
