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Assembly Bill A7689

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Increases penalty from misdemeanor to felony for failure to file or verify by a sex offender as required by law

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2011-A7689 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง168-t, Cor L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A6983
2013-2014: A7078

2011-A7689 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Increases penalty from misdemeanor to felony for failure to file or verify by a sex offender as required by law; provides that a conviction for such a failure would be a class E felony.

2011-A7689 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  7689

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              May 13, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M. of A. SALADINO, P. RIVERA, N. RIVERA, FINCH, BARCLAY,
  RAIA -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of  A.  BURLING,  HAWLEY,  McDONOUGH,
  McLAUGHLIN,  RA  --  read  once  and  referred  to  the  Committee  on
  Correction

AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to penalties for  a  sex
  offender's failure to register or verify

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Section 168-t of the correction law, as amended by  chapter
373 of the laws of 2007, is amended to read as follows:
  S  168-t.  Penalty. Any sex offender required to register or to verify
pursuant to the provisions of this article  who  fails  to  register  or
verify  in  the  manner and within the time periods provided for in this
article shall be guilty of a class E  felony  upon  conviction  for  the
first  offense,  and  upon conviction for a second or subsequent offense
shall be guilty of a class D felony. Any sex offender who  violates  the
provisions of section one hundred sixty-eight-v of this article shall be
guilty of a class [A misdemeanor] E FELONY upon conviction for the first
offense, and upon conviction for a second or subsequent offense shall be
guilty  of  a class D felony. Any such failure to register or verify may
also be the basis for revocation  of  parole  pursuant  to  section  two
hundred fifty-nine-i of the executive law or the basis for revocation of
probation pursuant to article four hundred ten of the criminal procedure
law.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
ing the date on which it shall have become a law.


 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD09016-01-1

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