Senate Bill S7252

Signed By Governor
2015-2016 Legislative Session

Requires the division of criminal justice services to provide notice to the appropriate local police agency, within 48 hours, of the change of address, or the other information relating to a sex offender

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Archive: Last Bill Status Via A9239 - Signed by Governor

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2015-S7252 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A9239
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §168-j, Cor L

2015-S7252 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the division of criminal justice services to provide notice to the appropriate local police agency, within 48 hours, of the change of address, or the other information relating to a sex offender.

2015-S7252 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2015-S7252 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  7252

                            I N  S E N A T E

                             April 11, 2016
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  ORTT  --  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 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:

  Section 1. Subdivisions 1, 3 and 4 of section 168-j of the  correction
law,  subdivision  1  as  amended,  and subdivisions 3 and 4 as added by
chapter 11 of the laws of 2002, are amended to read as follows:
  1. Upon receipt of a change of address by a sex offender  required  to
register  under  this article, BUT IN ANY EVENT NO MORE THAN FORTY-EIGHT
HOURS AFTER SUCH RECEIPT,  the  division  shall  notify  the  local  law
enforcement agency having jurisdiction of the new place of residence and
the  local law enforcement agency where the sex offender last resided of
the new place of residence.
  3. The division shall, if the sex offender changes residence to anoth-
er state, notify the appropriate agency within that  state  of  the  new
place of residence WITHIN FORTY-EIGHT HOURS.
  4.  Upon  receipt of a change in the status of the enrollment, attend-
ance, employment or residence at an institution of higher education by a
sex offender required to register under this article, BUT IN  ANY  EVENT
NO  MORE  THAN  FORTY-EIGHT HOURS AFTER SUCH RECEIPT, the division shall
notify each law enforcement agency having jurisdiction which is affected
by such change.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
have become a law.


 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD11891-01-5

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