Assembly Bill A3179

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires nonresident visitor sex offenders and registered sex offenders register when temporarily residing within the state

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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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2025-A3179 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S155
Current Committee:
Assembly Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§168-a & 168-f, Cor L; add §398-g, Gen Bus L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A4997, S3002

2025-A3179 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires nonresident visitor sex offenders and registered sex offenders register when temporarily residing within the state; requires short-term rental hosts and short-term rental hosting platforms inform nearby property owners when nonresident visitor sex offenders and registered sex offenders are staying in the unit.

2025-A3179 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3179
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 23, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  SIMPSON,  BENDETT, DeSTEFANO, GIBBS, HAWLEY,
   LEMONDES -- read once and referred to the Committee on Correction
 
 AN ACT to amend the correction law and  the  general  business  law,  in
   relation to requiring nonresident visitor sex offenders and registered
   sex offenders register when temporarily residing within the state

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 168-a of the correction law is amended by adding  a
 new subdivision 19 to read as follows:
   19.  "NONRESIDENT VISITOR" OR "NONRESIDENT VISITOR SEX OFFENDER" MEANS
 ANY PERSON REQUIRED TO REGISTER AS A SEX OFFENDER IN  ANOTHER  JURISDIC-
 TION WHO IS TEMPORARILY RESIDING WITHIN THE STATE, FOLLOWING THE PROCESS
 SET  FORTH  BY SUCH OTHER JURISDICTION, REGARDLESS OF THE LENGTH OF STAY
 OF SUCH PERSON.
   § 2. Subdivision 6 of section 168-f of the correction law, as added by
 chapter 11 of the laws of 2002, is amended to read as follows:
   6. (A) Any nonresident worker [or], nonresident student OR NONRESIDENT
 VISITOR, as defined in subdivisions fourteen [and], fifteen AND NINETEEN
 of section one hundred sixty-eight-a of  this  article,  shall  register
 [his or her] THEIR current address and the address of [his or her] THEIR
 place  of  employment  [or],  educational  institution  attended  OR THE
 ADDRESS OF THEIR TEMPORARY RESIDENCE AND LENGTH OF STAY  AT  SUCH  RESI-
 DENCE  with the division within ten calendar days after such nonresident
 worker  [or],  nonresident  student  OR  NONRESIDENT  VISITOR  commences
 employment  [or],  attendance at an educational institution OR STAY AT A
 TEMPORARY RESIDENCE in the state. Any nonresident worker [or],  nonresi-
 dent  student  OR  NONRESIDENT  VISITOR shall notify the division of any
 change of residence, employment or educational  institution  address  no
 later than ten days after such change. The division shall notify the law
 enforcement  agency  where  the nonresident worker is employed [or], the
 educational institution is located that a nonresident worker or nonresi-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00612-01-5
              

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