Bill Text: NY S01595 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-10 - REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION [S01595 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S01595-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1595

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 10, 2025
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        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:

     1    Section  1.  Paragraphs  (b-2)  and  (b-3) of subdivision 2 of section
     2  168-f of the correction law, as added by section 2 of part O of  chapter
     3  56 of the laws of 2005, are amended to read as follows:
     4    (b-2)  If  the  sex offender has been given a level two or level three
     5  designation, [he or she] such offender shall personally  appear  at  the
     6  law  enforcement  agency  having  jurisdiction within twenty days of the
     7  first anniversary of the sex offender's initial registration  and  every
     8  year  thereafter  during  the  period of registration for the purpose of
     9  providing a current photograph of such  offender.  The  law  enforcement
    10  agency  having  jurisdiction shall photograph the sex offender and shall
    11  promptly forward a copy of such photograph to the division. For purposes
    12  of this paragraph, if such sex offender is confined in a state or  local
    13  correctional facility, the local law enforcement agency having jurisdic-
    14  tion  shall  be  the  warden, superintendent, sheriff or other person in
    15  charge of the state or local correctional facility.
    16    (b-3) If the sex offender has been given a level one  [or  level  two]
    17  designation,  [he  or  she] such offender shall personally appear at the
    18  law enforcement agency having jurisdiction within  twenty  days  of  the
    19  third  anniversary  of the sex offender's initial registration and every
    20  three years thereafter during the period of registration for the purpose
    21  of providing a current photograph of such offender. The law  enforcement
    22  agency  having  jurisdiction shall photograph the sex offender and shall
    23  promptly forward a copy of such photograph to the division. For purposes
    24  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
        S. 1595                             2

     1  correctional facility, the local law enforcement agency having jurisdic-
     2  tion  shall  be  the  warden, superintendent, sheriff or other person in
     3  charge of the state or local correctional facility.
     4    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
     5  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.