STATE OF NEW YORK
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2365
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 16, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. SCARCELLA-SPANTON -- 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 including authorized
internet entities in the information sex offenders are required to
disclose upon registration
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 168-b of the
2 correction law, as amended by chapter 67 of the laws of 2008, is amended
3 to read as follows:
4 (a) The sex offender's name, all aliases used, date of birth, sex,
5 race, height, weight, eye color, driver's license number, home address
6 and/or expected place of domicile, any internet accounts with internet
7 access providers belonging to such offender and internet identifiers or
8 authorized internet entities that such offender uses.
9 § 2. Subdivision 4 of section 168-f of the correction law, as amended
10 by chapter 67 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as follows:
11 4. Any sex offender shall register with the division no later than ten
12 calendar days after any change of address, internet accounts with inter-
13 net access providers belonging to such offender, internet identifiers or
14 authorized internet entities that such offender uses, or [his or her]
15 such offender's status of enrollment, attendance, employment or resi-
16 dence at any institution of higher education. A fee of ten dollars, as
17 authorized by subdivision eight of section one hundred sixty-eight-b of
18 this article, shall be submitted by the sex offender each time such
19 offender registers any change of address or any change of [his or her]
20 such offender's status of enrollment, attendance, employment or resi-
21 dence at any institution of higher education. Any failure or omission to
22 submit the required fee shall not affect the acceptance by the division
23 of the change of address or change of status.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
2 have become a law. Effective immediately the addition, amendment and/or
3 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of
4 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
5 on or before such date.
