STATE OF NEW YORK
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6116
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 26, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. LEMONDES -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Correction
AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to the residence of a
sex offender
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivisions 1, 2 and 3 of section 168-c of the correction
2 law, as amended by chapter 11 of the laws of 2002, are amended to read
3 as follows:
4 1. In the case of any sex offender, it shall be the duty of the
5 department, hospital or local correctional facility at least ten calen-
6 dar days prior to the release or discharge of any sex offender from a
7 correctional facility, hospital or local correctional facility to notify
8 the division of the contemplated release or discharge of such sex offen-
9 der, informing the division in writing on a form provided by the divi-
10 sion indicating the address at which [he or she] the sex offender
11 proposes to reside and the name and address of any institution of higher
12 education at which [he or she] the sex offender expects to be enrolled,
13 attending or employed, whether for compensation or not, and whether [he
14 or she] the sex offender resides in or will reside in a facility owned
15 or operated by such institution. If such sex offender changes [his or
16 her] the sex offender's place of residence while on parole, such notifi-
17 cation of the change of residence shall be sent by the sex offender's
18 parole officer within forty-eight hours to the division on a form
19 provided by the division. If such sex offender changes the status of
20 [his or her] the sex offender's enrollment, attendance, employment or
21 residence at any institution of higher education while on parole, such
22 notification of the change of status shall be sent by the sex offender's
23 parole officer within forty-eight hours to the division on a form
24 provided by the division. In any case, a sex offender must report each
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 address where the sex offender resides, including any multiple or part-
2 time residences.
3 2. In the case of any sex offender on probation, it shall be the duty
4 of the sex offender's probation officer to notify the division within
5 forty-eight hours of [the] all new [place] places of residence on a form
6 provided by the division. If such sex offender changes the status of
7 [his or her] the sex offender's enrollment, attendance, employment or
8 residence at any institution of higher education while on probation,
9 such notification of the change of status shall be sent by the sex
10 offender's probation officer within forty-eight hours to the division on
11 a form provided by the division.
12 3. In the case in which any sex offender escapes from a state or local
13 correctional facility or hospital, the designated official of the facil-
14 ity or hospital where the person was confined shall notify within twen-
15 ty-four hours the law enforcement agency having had jurisdiction at the
16 time of [his or her] the sex offender's conviction, informing such law
17 enforcement agency of the name and aliases of the person, and the
18 address or addresses at which [he or she] the sex offender resided at
19 the time of [his or her] the sex offender's conviction, the amount of
20 time remaining to be served, if any, on the full term for which [he or
21 she] the sex offender was sentenced, and the nature of the crime for
22 which [he or she] the sex offender was sentenced, transmitting at the
23 same time a copy of such sex offender's fingerprints and photograph and
24 a summary of [his or her] the sex offender's criminal record.
25 § 2. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 2 of section 168-f of the correction
26 law, as added by chapter 192 of the laws of 1995, is amended to read as
27 follows:
28 (b) The verification form shall be signed by the sex offender, and
29 state that [he] the sex offender still resides at the address or
30 addresses last reported to the division.
31 § 3. Subdivision 4 of section 168-f of the correction law, as amended
32 by chapter 67 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as follows:
33 4. Any sex offender shall register with the division no later than ten
34 calendar days after any change of address, internet accounts with inter-
35 net access providers belonging to such offender, internet identifiers
36 that such offender uses, or [his or her] the sex offender's status of
37 enrollment, attendance, employment or residence at any institution of
38 higher education. A sex offender must report each address where the sex
39 offender resides, including any multiple or part-time residences. A fee
40 of ten dollars, as authorized by subdivision eight of section one
41 hundred sixty-eight-b of this article, shall be submitted by the sex
42 offender each time such offender registers any change of address or any
43 change of [his or her] the sex offender's status of enrollment, attend-
44 ance, employment or residence at any institution of higher education.
45 Any failure or omission to submit the required fee shall not affect the
46 acceptance by the division of the change of address or change of status.
47 § 4. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
48 have become a law.
