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Senate Bill S1595

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Increases the in-person appearance requirements for level two sex offenders

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2025-S1595 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Crime Victims, Crime And Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §168-f, Cor L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: S4994
2015-2016: S4511
2017-2018: S2638
2019-2020: S797
2021-2022: S4313
2023-2024: S2807

2025-S1595 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Increases the in-person appearance requirements for level two sex offenders from every three years to every year.

2025-S1595 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S1595 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1595
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 10, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  LANZA,  MATTERA, MURRAY -- 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 in-person appearance
   requirements for level two sex offenders

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Paragraphs  (b-2)  and  (b-3) 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, are amended to read as follows:
   (b-2)  If  the  sex offender has been given a level TWO OR LEVEL three
 designation, [he or she] SUCH OFFENDER 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 jurisdic-
 tion  shall  be  the  warden, superintendent, sheriff or other person in
 charge of the state or local correctional facility.
   (b-3) If the sex offender has been given a level one  [or  level  two]
 designation,  [he  or  she] SUCH OFFENDER shall personally appear at the
 law enforcement agency having jurisdiction within  twenty  days  of  the
 third  anniversary  of the sex offender's initial registration and every
 three years 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
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00613-01-5

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