STATE OF NEW YORK
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2468
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 21, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- 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 reporting sex offen-
der changes of address to the division of criminal justice services
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 168-f of the correction law, as
2 amended by chapter 67 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 4. Any sex offender shall register with the division, or a law
5 enforcement agency having jurisdiction, no later than ten calendar days
6 after any change of address, internet accounts with internet access
7 providers belonging to such offender, internet identifiers that such
8 offender uses, or [his or her] such offender's status of enrollment,
9 attendance, employment or residence at any institution of higher educa-
10 tion. If any sex offender submits a change of address, internet accounts
11 with internet access providers belonging to such offender, internet
12 identifiers that such offender uses, or such offender's status of
13 enrollment, attendance, employment or residence at any institution of
14 higher education to a law enforcement agency having jurisdiction, the
15 law enforcement agency shall, within five business days, forward the
16 form to the division. The law enforcement agency shall provide a copy of
17 the completed form to the offender and retain a copy for its records. A
18 fee of ten dollars, as authorized by subdivision eight of section one
19 hundred sixty-eight-b of this article, shall be submitted by the sex
20 offender each time such offender registers any change of address or any
21 change of [his or her] such offender's status of enrollment, attendance,
22 employment or residence at any institution of higher education. Any
23 failure or omission to submit the required fee shall not affect the
24 acceptance by the division of the change of address or change of status.
25 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD06629-01-5
