Senate Bill S5234

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Relates to sex offender registration procedures

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Crime Victims, Crime And Correction Committee


  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2015-S5234 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Crime Victims, Crime And Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยงยง168-p, 168-q, 168-f & 168-k, Cor L
Versions Introduced in 2013-2014 Legislative Session:
S7724

2015-S5234 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to sex offender registration procedures.

2015-S5234 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2015-S5234 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  5234

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                               May 8, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen. LAVALLE -- 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 sex offender regis-
  tration

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Subdivision  1 of section 168-p of the correction law, as
amended by chapter 361 of the laws  of  2004,  is  amended  to  read  as
follows:
  1.  Pursuant to section one hundred sixty-eight-b of this article, the
division shall also operate a  telephone  number  that  members  of  the
public  may call free of charge and inquire whether [a named individual]
UP TO FIVE NAMED INDIVIDUALS required to register pursuant to this arti-
cle [is] ARE listed. The division shall ascertain whether [a] SUCH named
[person] PERSONS reasonably [appears]  APPEAR  to  be  [a  person]  SUCH
PERSONS  so  listed and provide the caller with the relevant information
according to risk as described in subdivision six of section one hundred
sixty-eight-l of this article. The division shall decide  whether  [the]
SUCH named [person] PERSONS reasonably [appears] APPEAR to be [a person]
SUCH  PERSONS  listed,  based upon information from the caller providing
information that shall include (a) an exact  street  address,  including
apartment  number,  driver's  license  number  or birth date, along with
additional information that may include  social  security  number,  hair
color,  eye  color,  height, weight, distinctive markings, ethnicity; or
(b) any combination of the above  listed  characteristics  if  an  exact
birth  date or address is not available. If three of the characteristics
provided include ethnicity, hair color, and eye color, other identifying
characteristics shall be provided. ANY INCORRECT IDENTIFYING  CHARACTER-
ISTICS  PROVIDED BY THE CALLER WILL NOT PROHIBIT THE CALLER FROM INQUIR-
ING FURTHER AS TO THE  PERSON'S  IDENTITY  WITH  ADDITIONAL  IDENTIFYING

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD02439-02-5
              

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