Senate Bill S8227

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Relates to notification requirements of the division of criminal justice services

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  • 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-S8227 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A10751
Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §168-j, Cor L (as proposed in S.7252 & A.9239)
Versions Introduced in 2017-2018 Legislative Session:
S976, A366

2015-S8227 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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.

2015-S8227 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                  8227

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            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:

  Section  1. Subdivisions 1, 3 and 4 of section 168-j of the correction
law, as amended by a chapter of the laws of 2016 amending the correction
law relating 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, as proposed  in
legislative  bills  numbers  A.9239  and  S.7252, 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] TWO BUSINESS DAYS 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] TWO BUSINESS DAYS after such receipt,
the division shall notify each law enforcement agency  having  jurisdic-
tion which is affected by such change.
  S  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
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.

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