Bill Text: NY S06351 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Increases from 20 years to 30 years, the period during which sex offenders classified as level 1 must register with the division of criminal justice services.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-06-17 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S06351 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S06351-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6351
                    IN SENATE
                                     January 6, 2016
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  MURPHY -- 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 level one
          sex offenders to register for 30 years
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Subdivision 11 of section 168-b of the correction law, as
     2  added by chapter 1 of the laws of 2006 and as renumbered by  chapter  67
     3  of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as follows:
     4    11. The division shall promptly notify each sex offender whose term of
     5  registration  and  verification  would  otherwise  have expired prior to
     6  March thirty-first, two thousand [seven]  seventeen  of  the  continuing
     7  duty to register and verify under this article.
     8    §  2. Subdivision 1 of section 168-h of the correction law, as amended
     9  by chapter 1 of the laws of 2006, is amended to read as 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 for a period of [twenty] thirty years from the initial date
    15  of registration.
    16    § 3. Subdivision 8 of section 168-l of the correction law, as  amended
    17  by chapter 1 of the laws of 2006, is amended to read as follows:
    18    8.  A  failure  by a state or local agency or the board to act or by a
    19  court to render a determination within the time period specified in this
    20  article shall not affect the obligation of the sex offender to  register
    21  or verify under this article nor shall such failure prevent a court from
    22  making  a  determination regarding the sex offender's level of notifica-
    23  tion and whether such offender is required by law to be registered for a
    24  period of [twenty] thirty years or for life. Where a court is unable  to
    25  make  a  determination  prior to the date scheduled for a sex offender's
    26  discharge, parole, release to post-release supervision  or  release,  it
    27  shall  adjourn  the  hearing  until  after  the  offender is discharged,
    28  paroled, released to post-release supervision  or  released,  and  shall
    29  then expeditiously complete the hearing and issue its determination.
    30    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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