Relates to removing the fee for a sex offender to make a change to such sex offender's registration with the division of criminal justice services including fees for changing their address, or any change to their status of enrollment, attendance, employment or residence at any institution of higher education.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3976
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 31, 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 removing the fee for
a sex offender to make a change to such sex offender's registration
with 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 no later than ten
5 calendar days after any change of address, internet accounts with inter-
6 net access providers belonging to such offender, internet identifiers
7 that such offender uses, or [his or her] such offender's status of
8 enrollment, attendance, employment or residence at any institution of
9 higher education. [A fee of ten dollars, as authorized by subdivision
10 eight of section one hundred sixty-eight-b of this article, shall be
11 submitted by the sex offender each time such offender registers any
12 change of address or any change of his or her status of enrollment,
13 attendance, employment or residence at any institution of higher educa-
14 tion. Any failure or omission to submit the required fee shall not
15 affect the acceptance by the division of the change of address or change
16 of status.] No fee shall be collected from a sex offender in order to
17 change their address, or any change to such sex offender's status of
18 enrollment, attendance, employment or residence at any institution of
19 higher education.
20 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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