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Assembly Bill A1181

2017-2018 Legislative Session

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

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2017-A1181 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S296
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §168-f, Cor L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: A9194, S5713
2015-2016: A112, S1959

2017-A1181 (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.

2017-A1181 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1181
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 11, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. SIMANOWITZ, McDONOUGH -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.
   of A. HOOPER -- 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
 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.
   § 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
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02890-01-7

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