Bill Text: NY S05713 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires any level three sex offender who has committed a violent crime against a child to wear an electronic monitoring device for life; provides that such sex offender shall bear the cost of such device.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION [S05713 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S05713-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         5713
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                     June 6, 2013
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  ROBACH -- 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 certain
         level three sex offenders to wear an electronic monitoring device  for
         life
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Paragraph (b-2) of subdivision 2 of section  168-f  of  the
    2  correction  law,  as  added  by section 2 of part O of chapter 56 of the
    3  laws of 2005, is amended to read as follows:
    4    (b-2) If the sex offender has been given a level three designation, he
    5  or she shall personally appear at  the  law  enforcement  agency  having
    6  jurisdiction  within  twenty  days  of  the first anniversary of the sex
    7  offender's initial registration and every  year  thereafter  during  the
    8  period of registration for the purpose of providing a current photograph
    9  of  such  offender. The law enforcement agency having jurisdiction shall
   10  photograph the sex offender and shall promptly forward a  copy  of  such
   11  photograph  to the division. For purposes of this paragraph, if such sex
   12  offender is confined in a state  or  local  correctional  facility,  the
   13  local  law  enforcement  agency having jurisdiction shall be the warden,
   14  superintendent, sheriff or other person in charge of the state or  local
   15  correctional  facility.  SUCH SEX OFFENDER WHO HAS BEEN CONVICTED OF ANY
   16  VIOLENT CRIME AGAINST A CHILD SHALL WEAR AN ELECTRONIC MONITORING DEVICE
   17  FOR THE DURATION OF HIS OR HER LIFE. SUCH SEX OFFENDER  SHALL  BEAR  THE
   18  COST OF SUCH ELECTRONIC MONITORING DEVICE.
   19    S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
   20  it shall have become a law and shall apply to any level three sex offen-
   21  der  convicted  of  any  violent  crime  against a child on or after the
   22  effective date of this act.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD11374-01-3