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Assembly Bill A112A

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Requires certain level three sex offenders to wear an electronic monitoring device for life

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2015-A112 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1959
Current Committee:
Assembly Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §168-f, Cor L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: A9194, S5713
2017-2018: A1181, S296

2015-A112 - Summary

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.

2015-A112 - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                   112

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 7, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M. of A. SIMANOWITZ, McDONOUGH -- read once and referred
  to the Committee on 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:

  Section  1.  Paragraph  (b-2) of subdivision 2 of section 168-f of the
correction law, as added by section 2 of part O of  chapter  56  of  the
laws of 2005, is amended to read as follows:
  (b-2) If the sex offender has been given a level three designation, he
or  she  shall  personally  appear  at the law enforcement agency having
jurisdiction within twenty days of the  first  anniversary  of  the  sex
offender's  initial  registration  and  every year thereafter during the
period of registration for the purpose of providing a current photograph
of such offender. The law enforcement agency having  jurisdiction  shall
photograph  the  sex  offender and shall promptly forward a copy of such
photograph to the division. For purposes of this paragraph, if such  sex
offender  is  confined  in  a  state or local correctional facility, the
local law enforcement agency having jurisdiction shall  be  the  warden,
superintendent,  sheriff or other person in charge of the state or local
correctional facility.  SUCH SEX OFFENDER WHO HAS BEEN CONVICTED OF  ANY
VIOLENT CRIME AGAINST A CHILD SHALL WEAR AN ELECTRONIC MONITORING DEVICE
FOR  THE  DURATION  OF HIS OR HER LIFE. SUCH SEX OFFENDER SHALL BEAR THE
COST OF SUCH ELECTRONIC MONITORING DEVICE.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
it shall have become a law and shall apply to any level three sex offen-
der convicted of any violent crime against  a  child  on  or  after  the
effective date of this act.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD00550-01-5

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2015-A112A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1959
Current Committee:
Assembly Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §168-f, Cor L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: A9194, S5713
2017-2018: A1181, S296

2015-A112A (ACTIVE) - Summary

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.

2015-A112A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                 112--A

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 7, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. SIMANOWITZ, McDONOUGH -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.
  of  A. HOOPER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Correction
  -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered  reprinted  as  amended
  and recommitted to said committee

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:

  Section 1. Paragraph (b-2) of subdivision 2 of section  168-f  of  the
correction  law,  as  added  by section 2 of part O of chapter 56 of the
laws of 2005, is amended to read as follows:
  (b-2) If the sex offender has been given a level three designation, he
or she shall personally appear at  the  law  enforcement  agency  having
jurisdiction  within  twenty  days  of  the first anniversary of the sex
offender's initial registration and every  year  thereafter  during  the
period of registration for the purpose of providing a current photograph
of  such  offender. The law enforcement agency having jurisdiction shall
photograph the sex offender and shall promptly forward a  copy  of  such
photograph  to the division. For purposes of this paragraph, if such sex
offender is confined in a state  or  local  correctional  facility,  the
local  law  enforcement  agency having jurisdiction shall be the warden,
superintendent, sheriff or other person in charge of the state or  local
correctional  facility.  SUCH SEX OFFENDER WHO HAS BEEN CONVICTED OF ANY
SEXUALLY VIOLENT CRIME AGAINST A CHILD SHALL WEAR AN ELECTRONIC MONITOR-
ING DEVICE FOR THE DURATION OF HIS OR HER LIFE. SUCH SEX OFFENDER  SHALL
BEAR THE COST OF SUCH ELECTRONIC MONITORING DEVICE.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
it shall have become a law and shall apply to any level three sex offen-
der  convicted of any sexually violent crime against a child on or after
the effective date of this act.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

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