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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         1819--A
 
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    January 13, 2015
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  M. of A. GUNTHER, SKOUFIS, BRINDISI, SIMANOWITZ, JAFFEE,
          MARKEY, MOSLEY, ZEBROWSKI, RYAN, HOOPER, BROOK-KRASNY,  KEARNS,  COOK,
          ORTIZ, OTIS, STECK, SEPULVEDA, GALEF, BUCHWALD, DUPREY, GRAF, MONTESA-
          NO, PALMESANO, RAIA, WALTER, FINCH, CORWIN, CROUCH, STEC, LALOR, SALA-
          DINO,  COLTON  --  Multi-Sponsored  by  --  M.  of  A. ABBATE, ARROYO,
          BARCLAY, CERETTO, CRESPO, HEVESI, HIKIND, MAGEE, McKEVITT, McLAUGHLIN,
          PERRY, RIVERA, SCHIMEL, SKARTADOS, THIELE -- read once and referred to
          the Committee on Correction --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
 
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  correction law, in relation to the sex offender
          registry
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1. Section 168-a of the correction law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 19 to read as follows:
     3    19. "Residence" means any place  where  a  sex  offender  maintains  a
     4  fixed, permanent home to which he or she, when temporarily away, intends
     5  to  return.  Nothing  shall  prohibit,  for the purposes of this article
     6  only, a person from having multiple residences.
     7    § 2. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 168-b of the correction
     8  law, as amended by chapter 67 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as
     9  follows:
    10    (a) The sex offender's name, all aliases used,  date  of  birth,  sex,
    11  race,  height,  weight, eye color, driver's license number, home address
    12  and/or expected place of domicile, any internet accounts  with  internet
    13  access  providers  belonging  to  such offender and internet identifiers
    14  that such offender uses. The division shall question  such  offender  on
    15  each  registration  form  whether  he  or she has multiple residences as
    16  defined in subdivision nineteen of section one hundred sixty-eight-a  of
    17  this  article  and shall notify offenders of the requirement to register
    18  all such residences annually.
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02170-02-5
        A. 1819--A                          2
 
     1    § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
     2  have  become  a  law;  provided  that,  the division of criminal justice
     3  services shall, within one hundred eighty days of such date notify  each
     4  offender of their affirmative obligation to update registration informa-
     5  tion to detail any changes required by this act.