STATE OF NEW YORK
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7603
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 23, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. RHOADS -- 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 registering with the
sex offender registry no later than five days after any change of
address
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
5 [ten] five calendar days after any change of address, internet accounts
6 with internet access providers belonging to such offender, internet
7 identifiers that such offender uses, or [his or her] such offender's
8 status of enrollment, attendance, employment or residence at any insti-
9 tution of higher education. A fee of ten dollars, as authorized by
10 subdivision eight of section one hundred sixty-eight-b of this article,
11 shall be submitted by the sex offender each time such offender registers
12 any change of address or any change of [his or her] such offender's
13 status of enrollment, attendance, employment or residence at any insti-
14 tution of higher education. Any failure or omission to submit the
15 required fee shall not affect the acceptance by the division of the
16 change of address or change of status.
17 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
18 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD00136-01-5
