STATE OF NEW YORK
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1132
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 10, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. SKOUFIS -- 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 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.
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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.
