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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         185--A
 
                               2013-2014 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                       (Prefiled)
 
                                     January 9, 2013
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced by M. of A. HEVESI -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on  Codes  -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
          amended and recommitted to said committee
 
        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to directing the division

          of criminal justice services to  publish  a  brochure  describing  the
          resources available to the general public for gathering criminal back-
          ground information on an individual
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Section 837 of the executive law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 20 to read as follows:
     3    20. Publish, in writing and on its website, a brochure describing  the
     4  resources  available  to the general public for the purpose of gathering
     5  criminal background information on an  individual.  The  brochure  shall
     6  outline  the  available  databases  as  well as provide instructions for
     7  their use and contact information for assistance in using the databases.

     8  Such brochure shall include information on the department of corrections
     9  and community supervision parolee and inmate lookup, the subdirectory of
    10  sex offenders maintained pursuant to section one  hundred  sixty-eight-q
    11  of  the correction law, the special telephone number maintained pursuant
    12  to section one hundred sixty-eight-p of the correction law,  the  office
    13  of  court  administration criminal history record search, the department
    14  of justice national sex offender public website as  well  as  any  other
    15  available  databases. The division shall distribute at no cost a copy of
    16  the brochure created by this section to all youth services organizations
    17  that have registered with the division  pursuant  to  section  two-a  of

    18  section  one hundred sixty-eight-p of the correction law as well as make
    19  the publication available on their website.
    20    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    21  have  become  a  law;  provided, however, that effective immediately the
    22  division of criminal justice services may and hereby  is  authorized  to
    23  promulgate  any rules and regulations consistent with this act as may be
    24  necessary to assure the effective implementation of this act.
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03557-02-3