STATE OF NEW YORK
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IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 8, 2014
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Introduced by Sen. BONACIC -- 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 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" or "domicile" means any place where an offender
4 intends to reside on either a full or part time basis. Nothing shall
5 prohibit, for the purposes of this article only, a person from having
6 multiple residences or domiciles.
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 query offenders on each
15 registration form whether such offender has multiple residences or domi-
16 ciles as defined in subdivision nineteen of section one hundred sixty-
17 eight-a of this article and shall develop examples of when a person
18 shall be deemed to have multiple residences or domiciles. If an offender
19 acquires or establishes any additional residences or domiciles during a
20 registration period, such offender shall, within ten days, notify any
21 police department of such additional residences or domiciles in the
22 manner directed by the division.
23 § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
24 have become a law; provided that, the division of criminal justice
25 services shall, within one hundred eighty days of such date notify each
26 offender of their affirmative obligation to update registration informa-
27 tion to detail any changes required by this act.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11771-02-3
