Bill Text: NY S08227 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 8227 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to directing the division of criminal justice services to notify the appropriate agencies, within 48 hours of the receipt of a change of address, or of enrollment, attendance, employment or residence at an institution of higher education by a sex offender.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-12-23 - REFERRED TO RULES [S08227 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S08227-Introduced.html

                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8227
                    IN SENATE
                                    December 23, 2016
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  ORTT  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
        AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to directing  the  divi-
          sion  of criminal justice services to notify the appropriate agencies,
          within 48 hours of the receipt of a change of address, or  of  enroll-
          ment,  attendance, employment or residence at an institution of higher
          education 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. Subdivisions 1, 3 and 4 of section 168-j of the correction
     2  law, as amended by a chapter of the laws of 2016 amending the correction
     3  law relating to directing the division of criminal justice  services  to
     4  notify  the  appropriate  agencies,  within 48 hours of the receipt of a
     5  change of address, or of enrollment, attendance, employment or residence
     6  at an institution of higher education by a sex offender, as proposed  in
     7  legislative  bills  numbers  A.9239  and  S.7252, are amended to read as
     8  follows:
     9    1. Upon receipt of a change of address by a sex offender  required  to
    10  register  under this article, but in any event no more than [forty-eight
    11  hours] two business days after such receipt, the division  shall  notify
    12  the local law enforcement agency having jurisdiction of the new place of
    13  residence  and  the  local law enforcement agency where the sex offender
    14  last resided of the new place of residence.
    15    3. The division shall, if the sex offender changes residence to anoth-
    16  er state, notify the appropriate agency within that  state  of  the  new
    17  place of residence [within forty-eight hours].
    18    4.  Upon  receipt of a change in the status of the enrollment, attend-
    19  ance, employment or residence at an institution of higher education by a
    20  sex offender required to register under this article, but in  any  event
    21  no  more  than [forty-eight hours] two business days after such receipt,
    22  the division shall notify each law enforcement agency  having  jurisdic-
    23  tion which is affected by such change.
    24    §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
    25  manner as a chapter of the laws of  2016  amending  the  correction  law
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11891-02-6

        S. 8227                             2
     1  relating to directing the division of criminal justice services to noti-
     2  fy  the appropriate agencies, within 48 hours of the receipt of a change
     3  of address, or of enrollment, attendance, employment or residence at  an
     4  institution of higher education by a sex offender, as proposed in legis-
     5  lative bills numbers A.9239 and S.7252, takes effect.