Bill Text: NY S02223 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION [S02223 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S02223-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2223

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 20, 2021
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        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 his or her 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:

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  4 of section 168-f of the correction law, as
     2  amended by chapter 67 of the  laws  of  2008,  is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    4. Any sex offender shall register with the division no later than ten
     5  calendar days after any change of address, internet accounts with inter-
     6  net  access  providers  belonging to such offender, internet identifiers
     7  that such offender uses, or his or her status of enrollment, attendance,
     8  employment or residence at any institution of higher education.  [A  fee
     9  of  ten  dollars,  as  authorized  by  subdivision  eight of section one
    10  hundred sixty-eight-b of this article, shall be  submitted  by  the  sex
    11  offender  each time such offender registers any change of address or any
    12  change of his or her status of  enrollment,  attendance,  employment  or
    13  residence  at  any institution of higher education. Any failure or omis-
    14  sion to submit the required fee shall not affect the acceptance  by  the
    15  division  of the change of address or change of status.] No fee shall be
    16  collected from a sex offender in order to change his or her address,  or
    17  any change to his or her status of enrollment, attendance, employment or
    18  residence at any institution of higher education.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01725-01-1