STATE OF NEW YORK
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1595
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 10, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. LANZA, MATTERA, MURRAY -- 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 in-person appearance
requirements for level two sex offenders
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraphs (b-2) and (b-3) of subdivision 2 of section
2 168-f of the correction law, as added by section 2 of part O of chapter
3 56 of the laws of 2005, are amended to read as follows:
4 (b-2) If the sex offender has been given a level two or level three
5 designation, [he or she] such offender shall personally appear at the
6 law enforcement agency having jurisdiction within twenty days of the
7 first anniversary of the sex offender's initial registration and every
8 year thereafter during the period of registration for the purpose of
9 providing a current photograph of such offender. The law enforcement
10 agency having jurisdiction shall photograph the sex offender and shall
11 promptly forward a copy of such photograph to the division. For purposes
12 of this paragraph, if such sex offender is confined in a state or local
13 correctional facility, the local law enforcement agency having jurisdic-
14 tion shall be the warden, superintendent, sheriff or other person in
15 charge of the state or local correctional facility.
16 (b-3) If the sex offender has been given a level one [or level two]
17 designation, [he or she] such offender shall personally appear at the
18 law enforcement agency having jurisdiction within twenty days of the
19 third anniversary of the sex offender's initial registration and every
20 three years thereafter during the period of registration for the purpose
21 of providing a current photograph of such offender. The law enforcement
22 agency having jurisdiction shall photograph the sex offender and shall
23 promptly forward a copy of such photograph to the division. For purposes
24 of this paragraph, if such sex offender is confined in a state or local
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 correctional facility, the local law enforcement agency having jurisdic-
2 tion shall be the warden, superintendent, sheriff or other person in
3 charge of the state or local correctional facility.
4 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
5 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
