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Assembly Bill A4744

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Provides that local commissioners of social services shall notify law enforcement agencies when a homeless sex offender is placed in temporary emergency housing

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2013-A4744 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Social Services
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §136, Soc Serv L; amd §168-f, Cor L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A7502
2011-2012: A7049
2015-2016: A6918

2013-A4744 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that the commissioner of social services for Suffolk county shall notify local law enforcement agencies when a homeless sex offender is placed in temporary emergency housing.

2013-A4744 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  4744

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 8, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of A. THIELE, RAMOS -- read once and referred to the
  Committee on Social Services

AN ACT to amend the social services  law  and  the  correction  law,  in
  relation to temporary emergency housing for sex offenders

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

  Section 1. Section 136 of the social services law is amended by adding
a new subdivision 6 to read as follows:
  6. NOTWITHSTANDING THE PROVISIONS OF SUBDIVISION TWO OF THIS  SECTION,
IN THE EVENT THAT THE COMMISSIONER OF SOCIAL SERVICES FOR SUFFOLK COUNTY
PLACES  A  HOMELESS  SEX  OFFENDER  INTO ANY FORM OF TEMPORARY EMERGENCY
HOUSING, SUCH COMMISSIONER SHALL, WITHIN TWENTY-FOUR HOURS,  NOTIFY  THE
LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY AND PROVIDE THE NAME AND ADDRESS OF THE SEX
OFFENDER BEING PLACED.
  S  2.  Section  168-f of the correction law is amended by adding a new
subdivision 7 to read as follows:
  7. IN THE EVENT THAT THE COMMISSIONER OF SOCIAL SERVICES  FOR  SUFFOLK
COUNTY  PLACES  A HOMELESS SEX OFFENDER INTO ANY FORM OF TEMPORARY EMER-
GENCY HOUSING, SUCH COMMISSIONER SHALL, WITHIN TWENTY-FOUR HOURS, NOTIFY
THE LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY AND PROVIDE THE NAME AND ADDRESS OF THE
SEX OFFENDER BEING PLACED.
  S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.




 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD08670-01-3

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