Bill Text: NY S00249 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 249 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to notice of transfer of sex offender to community program or residence.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO DISABILITIES [S00249 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S00249-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           249

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 4, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. GALLIVAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Disabilities

        AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to notice of  trans-
          fer of sex offender to community program or residence

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 13.09 of the  mental  hygiene  law  is  amended  by
     2  adding a new subdivision (j) to read as follows:
     3    (j)  The  commissioner shall notify the chief executive officer of any
     4  municipality where a sex offender, as defined  pursuant  to  subdivision
     5  one  of  section  one  hundred  sixty-eight-a  of the correction law, is
     6  transferred to a community program or residence within his or her  muni-
     7  cipality.  The  commissioner  shall  also  notify  the superintendent of
     8  schools in which such facility is located.  Notice  shall  be  given  no
     9  later than ten calendar days prior to such transfer.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00188-01-3