Relates to removing the fee for a sex offender to make a change to his or her registration with the division of criminal justice services including fees for changing their address, or any change to his or her status of enrollment, attendance, employment or residence at any institution of higher education.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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IN ASSEMBLY
November 6, 2020
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Quart) --
read once and referred to the Committee on Correction
AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to removing the fee for
a sex offender to make a change to his or her 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 status of enrollment, attendance,
8 employment or residence at any institution of higher education. [A fee
9 of ten dollars, as authorized by subdivision eight of section one
10 hundred sixty-eight-b of this article, shall be submitted by the sex
11 offender each time such offender registers any change of address or any
12 change of his or her status of enrollment, attendance, employment or
13 residence at any institution of higher education. Any failure or omis-
14 sion to submit the required fee shall not affect the acceptance by the
15 division of the change of address or change of status.] No fee shall be
16 collected from a sex offender in order to change his or her address, or
17 any change to his or her status of enrollment, attendance, employment or
18 residence at any institution of higher education.
19 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD15732-02-0
