Bill Text: NY S03569 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Adds social security number, past home addresses, IP addresses, social media accounts, and online gamer information to the information required to be reported by a sex offender.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION [S03569 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S03569-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3569

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 1, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. SKOUFIS -- 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 the registration
          information required to be reported by a sex offender

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (a)  of  subdivision 1 of section 168-b of the
     2  correction law, as amended by chapter 67 of the laws of 2008, is amended
     3  to read as follows:
     4    (a) The sex offender's name, social security number, all aliases used,
     5  date of birth, sex, race, height, weight, eye  color,  driver's  license
     6  number,  past home addresses, current home address and/or expected place
     7  of domicile,  any  internet  accounts  with  internet  access  providers
     8  belonging  to  such offender and internet identifiers that such offender
     9  uses.   For the purposes of  this  paragraph,  internet  accounts  shall
    10  include, but not be limited to, all IP addresses, social media accounts,
    11  and online gamer accounts belonging to such offender.
    12    §  2. Subdivision 4 of section 168-f of the correction law, as amended
    13  by chapter 67 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as follows:
    14    4. Any sex offender shall register with the division no later than ten
    15  calendar days after any change of address, internet accounts with inter-
    16  net access providers belonging to such  offender,  internet  identifiers
    17  that  such  offender  uses,  IP addresses, social media accounts, online
    18  gamer accounts or his or her status of enrollment,  attendance,  employ-
    19  ment  or  residence at any institution of higher education. A fee of ten
    20  dollars, as authorized by  subdivision  eight  of  section  one  hundred
    21  sixty-eight-b  of  this  article, shall be submitted by the sex offender
    22  each time such offender registers any change of address or any change of
    23  his or her status of enrollment, attendance, employment or residence  at
    24  any  institution  of higher education. Any failure or omission to submit

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        S. 3569                             2

     1  the required fee shall not affect the acceptance by the division of  the
     2  change of address or change of status.
     3    §  3.  Section  168-a of the correction law is amended by adding a new
     4  subdivision 19 to read as follows:
     5    19. "Online gamer account" means a user name or other name, or identi-
     6  fying data that allows such individual  or  user  to  engage,  spectate,
     7  message,  communicate,  participate,  or  play on the internet, console,
     8  gaming system, and/or network, in which other individuals can engage  in
     9  the  same  game,  games, activities, or multiplayer features. An "online
    10  gamer account" includes,  but  is  not  limited  to,  a  console  gaming
    11  account,  computer  gaming  account,  user tag, user account, user name,
    12  network account, X-box gamer tag,  PlayStation  Network  name,  Nintendo
    13  Network ID, Nintendo Switch Online account/name, online multiplayer user
    14  name, online multiplayer playing account, unique user name, or any other
    15  profile  and/or  named  account  that  allows such individual or user to
    16  engage, spectate, message, communicate,  participate,  or  play  on  the
    17  internet,  console,  gaming system, and/or network, in which other indi-
    18  viduals can engage in the same game, games, activities,  or  multiplayer
    19  features.
    20    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.