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Senate Bill S3976

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to removing the fee for a sex offender to make a change to such sex offender's registration with the division of criminal justice services

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2025-S3976 (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:
2019-2020: S8101
2021-2022: S2223
2023-2024: S751

2025-S3976 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to removing the fee for a sex offender to make a change to such sex offender's registration with the division of criminal justice services including fees for changing their address, or any change to their status of enrollment, attendance, employment or residence at any institution of higher education.

2025-S3976 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S3976 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3976
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 31, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- 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 removing the fee  for
   a  sex  offender  to make a change to such sex offender's registration
   with the division of criminal justice services

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  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]  SUCH  OFFENDER'S  status  of
 enrollment,  attendance,  employment  or residence at any institution of
 higher education. [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 status of enrollment,
 attendance, employment or residence at any institution of higher  educa-
 tion.  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.] NO FEE SHALL BE COLLECTED FROM A SEX OFFENDER  IN  ORDER  TO
 CHANGE  THEIR  ADDRESS,  OR  ANY CHANGE TO SUCH SEX OFFENDER'S STATUS OF
 ENROLLMENT, ATTENDANCE, EMPLOYMENT OR RESIDENCE AT  ANY  INSTITUTION  OF
 HIGHER EDUCATION.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08287-01-5

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