Bill Text: NY A03291 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to prohibiting a person required to register under the sex offender registration act from possessing an online gamer account.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to correction [A03291 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A03291-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3291
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 29, 2019
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        Introduced by M. of A. BARNWELL -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BRAUN-
          STEIN,  D'URSO,  MOSLEY  -- read once and referred to the Committee on
          Correction
        AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to prohibiting a  person
          required  to  register  under  the  sex offender registration act from
          possessing an online gamer account
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 168-w of the correction law, as relettered by chap-
     2  ter  604  of  the  laws  of  2005, is relettered section 168-x and a new
     3  section 168-w is added to read as follows:
     4    § 168-w. Prohibition of online gamer accounts. 1. For purposes of this
     5  section an "online gamer account" means a user name or  other  name,  or
     6  identifying  data  that  allows such individual or user to engage, spec-
     7  tate, message,  communicate,  participate,  or  play  on  the  internet,
     8  console,  gaming  system, and/or network, in which other individuals can
     9  engage in the same game, games, activities, or multiplayer features.  An
    10  "online gamer account" includes, but is not limited to, a console gaming
    11  account,  computer  gaming  account,  user tag, user account, user name,
    12  network account, X-box gamer tag,  PlayStation  Network  name,  Nintendo
    13  Network  ID,  online  multiplayer  user name, online multiplayer playing
    14  account, unique user name, or any other  profile  and/or  named  account
    15  that allows such individual or user to engage, spectate, message, commu-
    16  nicate,  participate,  or  play on the internet, console, gaming system,
    17  and/or network, in which other individuals can engage in the same  game,
    18  games, activities, or multiplayer features.
    19    2.  a.  No person required to maintain registration under this article
    20  shall be permitted to have an online  gamer  account  that  allows  such
    21  person  to engage in the watching, participation, communication, messag-
    22  ing, talking, and/or playing of any type  of  game  over  the  internet,
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02172-01-9
        A. 3291                             2
     1  console, platform, system, online multiplayer feature, or any other type
     2  of device, in which minors also have access to an online gamer account.
     3    b. Any person required to maintain registration under this article who
     4  currently  has  such  online  gamer  account shall delete, remove and/or
     5  cancel such online gamer account within seven days after  the  effective
     6  date  of  this  section.  Such person shall report such account, and the
     7  account's deletion, to the division within seven days after  the  effec-
     8  tive date of this section.
     9    3.  a. Any person required to maintain registration under this article
    10  who fails to report such online gamer account to the division seven days
    11  after the effective date of this section shall be guilty of  a  class  A
    12  misdemeanor.
    13    b. Any person required to maintain registration under this article who
    14  currently  has  such  online  gamer account at the time of the effective
    15  date of this section, and who fails to delete, remove and/or cancel such
    16  online gamer account within seven days after the effective date of  this
    17  section shall be guilty of a class A misdemeanor.
    18    c. Any person required to maintain registration under this article who
    19  creates an online gamer account after the effective date of this section
    20  shall be guilty of a class A misdemeanor. Upon the second violation, and
    21  each  subsequent  violation,  of  this  subdivision such person shall be
    22  guilty of a class E felony.
    23    § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
    24  have become a law.