Bill Text: NY S03532 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Makes it a class E felony for a sex offender to submit fraudulent information regarding his or her identity or residence when registering or verifying under the Sex Offender Registration Act (Megan's Law).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-06-18 - referred to correction [S03532 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S03532-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         3532
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   February 5, 2013
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       Introduced  by  Sen. O'BRIEN -- 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 the penalty for a sex
         offender submitting fraudulent information respecting his or her iden-
         tity or residence or both, when registering or verifying such informa-
         tion pursuant to the Sex Offender Registration Act
         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    S  168-W.  SUBMISSION OF FRAUDULENT INFORMATION RESPECTING IDENTITY OR
    5  RESIDENCE FOR THE PURPOSE OF REGISTRATION OR VERIFICATION; PENALTY.  ANY
    6  SEX  OFFENDER  REQUIRED  TO  REGISTER  OR  TO  VERIFY  PURSUANT  TO  THE
    7  PROVISIONS OF THIS ARTICLE WHO, WITH FRAUDULENT  INTENT,  SUBMITS  FALSE
    8  INFORMATION RESPECTING HIS OR HER IDENTITY OR RESIDENCE OR BOTH, FOR THE
    9  PURPOSE  OF, OR IN THE COURSE OF, SATISFYING HIS OR HER DUTY TO REGISTER
   10  OR TO VERIFY PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF THIS ARTICLE, SHALL BE GUILTY
   11  OF A CLASS E FELONY.
   12    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately and  shall  apply  to  any
   13  information submitted by a sex offender on or after such effective date.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD06997-01-3