Assembly Bill A6116

                             
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                                   6116
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 26, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. LEMONDES -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Correction
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend the correction law, in relation to the residence of 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, 2 and 3 of section 168-c of the correction
 law, as amended by chapter 11 of the laws of 2002, are amended  to  read
 as follows:
   1.  In  the  case  of  any  sex  offender, it shall be the duty of the
 department, hospital or local correctional facility at least ten  calen-
 dar  days  prior  to the release or discharge of any sex offender from a
 correctional facility, hospital or local correctional facility to notify
 the division of the contemplated release or discharge of such sex offen-
 der, informing the division in writing on a form provided by  the  divi-
 sion  indicating  the  address  at  which  [he  or she] THE SEX OFFENDER
 proposes to reside and the name and address of any institution of higher
 education at which [he or she] THE SEX OFFENDER expects to be  enrolled,
 attending  or employed, whether for compensation or not, and whether [he
 or she] THE SEX OFFENDER resides in or will reside in a  facility  owned
 or  operated  by  such institution. If such sex offender changes [his or
 her] THE SEX OFFENDER'S place of residence while on parole, such notifi-
 cation of the change of residence shall be sent by  the  sex  offender's
 parole  officer  within  forty-eight  hours  to  the  division on a form
 provided by the division. If such sex offender  changes  the  status  of
 [his  or  her]  THE SEX OFFENDER'S enrollment, attendance, employment or
 residence at any institution of higher education while on  parole,  such
 notification of the change of status shall be sent by the sex offender's
 parole  officer  within  forty-eight  hours  to  the  division on a form
 provided by the division.  IN ANY CASE, A SEX OFFENDER MUST REPORT  EACH
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 ADDRESS  WHERE THE SEX OFFENDER RESIDES, INCLUDING ANY MULTIPLE OR PART-
 TIME RESIDENCES.
   2.  In the case of any sex offender on probation, it shall be the duty
 of the sex offender's probation officer to notify  the  division  within
 forty-eight hours of [the] ALL new [place] PLACES of residence on a form
 provided  by  the  division.  If such sex offender changes the status of
 [his or her] THE SEX OFFENDER'S enrollment,  attendance,  employment  or
 residence  at  any  institution  of higher education while on probation,
 such notification of the change of status  shall  be  sent  by  the  sex
 offender's probation officer within forty-eight hours to the division on
 a form provided by the division.
   3. In the case in which any sex offender escapes from a state or local
 correctional facility or hospital, the designated official of the facil-
 ity  or hospital where the person was confined shall notify within twen-
 ty-four hours the law enforcement agency having had jurisdiction at  the
 time  of  [his or her] THE SEX OFFENDER'S conviction, informing such law
 enforcement agency of the name  and  aliases  of  the  person,  and  the
 address  OR  ADDRESSES  at which [he or she] THE SEX OFFENDER resided at
 the time of [his or her] THE SEX OFFENDER'S conviction,  the  amount  of
 time  remaining  to be served, if any, on the full term for which [he or
 she] THE SEX OFFENDER was sentenced, and the nature  of  the  crime  for
 which  [he  or  she] THE SEX OFFENDER was sentenced, transmitting at the
 same time a copy of such sex offender's fingerprints and photograph  and
 a summary of [his or her] THE SEX OFFENDER'S criminal record.
   § 2. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 2 of section 168-f of the correction
 law,  as added by chapter 192 of the laws of 1995, is amended to read as
 follows:
   (b) The verification form shall be signed by  the  sex  offender,  and
 state  that  [he]  THE  SEX  OFFENDER  still  resides  at the address OR
 ADDRESSES last reported to the division.
   § 3. Subdivision 4 of section 168-f of the correction law, as  amended
 by chapter 67 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as follows:
   4. Any sex offender shall register with the division no later than ten
 calendar days after any change of address, internet accounts with inter-
 net  access  providers  belonging to such offender, internet identifiers
 that such offender uses, or [his or her] THE SEX  OFFENDER'S  status  of
 enrollment,  attendance,  employment  or residence at any institution of
 higher education. A SEX OFFENDER MUST REPORT EACH ADDRESS WHERE THE  SEX
 OFFENDER  RESIDES, INCLUDING ANY MULTIPLE OR PART-TIME RESIDENCES. A fee
 of ten dollars, as  authorized  by  subdivision  eight  of  section  one
 hundred  sixty-eight-b  of  this  article, shall be submitted by the sex
 offender each time such offender registers any change of address or  any
 change  of [his or her] THE SEX OFFENDER'S status of enrollment, attend-
 ance, employment or residence at any institution  of  higher  education.
 Any  failure or omission to submit the required fee shall not affect the
 acceptance by the division of the change of address or change of status.
   § 4. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.