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Senate Bill S3278

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Requires sex offenders who fail to register or verify twice or more to wear a location-tracking device

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Crime Victims, Crime And Correction Committee

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2023-S3278 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Crime Victims, Crime And Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §168-t, Cor L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: S6073
2013-2014: S3919
2015-2016: S4465
2017-2018: S3907
2019-2020: S4736
2021-2022: S4198
2025-2026: S5068

2023-S3278 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires sex offenders who fail to register or verify their registration on two or more occasions to wear a location-tracking device while on probation, parole, conditional release or post-release supervision; establishes failure to wear such device shall be a class D felony and grounds for revocation of parole and probation.

2023-S3278 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S3278 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3278
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 30, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  GRIFFO -- 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 requiring sex offen-
   ders who repeatedly fail to register and verify to  wear  a  location-
   transmitting device

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 168-t of the correction law, as amended by  chapter
 373 of the laws of 2007, is amended to read as follows:
   § 168-t. Penalty. 1. Any sex offender required to register or to veri-
 fy  pursuant  to the provisions of this article who fails to register or
 verify in the manner and within the time periods provided  for  in  this
 article  shall  be  guilty  of  a class E felony upon conviction for the
 first offense, and upon conviction for a second  or  subsequent  offense
 shall  be  guilty of a class D felony. Any sex offender who violates the
 provisions of section one hundred sixty-eight-v of this article shall be
 guilty of a class A misdemeanor upon conviction for the  first  offense,
 and  upon  conviction for a second or subsequent offense shall be guilty
 of a class D felony. Any such failure to register or verify may also  be
 the  basis  for  revocation  of  parole  pursuant to section two hundred
 fifty-nine-i of the  executive  law  or  the  basis  for  revocation  of
 probation pursuant to article four hundred ten of the criminal procedure
 law.
   2.  (A) NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW TO THE CONTRARY, IN
 ADDITION TO ANY OTHER PENALTY PROVIDED IN THIS SECTION, ANY SEX OFFENDER
 FOUND GUILTY OF A VIOLATION OF THIS SECTION ON  TWO  OR  MORE  OCCASIONS
 SHALL,  IF  SENTENCED TO PROBATION, BE REQUIRED TO WEAR AT ALL TIMES FOR
 THE DURATION OF THE PERIOD OF PROBATION A LOCATION-TRANSMITTING  DEVICE,
 AND,  IF  SENTENCED  TO A PERIOD OF IMPRISONMENT, BE REQUIRED TO WEAR AT

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04478-01-3
 S. 3278                             2

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