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                                   6724
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 15, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. FINCH, McDONOUGH, LAWRENCE -- Multi-Sponsored by
   -- M. of A.  BLANKENBUSH, GIGLIO, WILLIAMS -- read once  and  referred
   to the Committee on Correction
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend the correction law, in relation to the residence of a
   sex offender
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Subdivisions 1, 2 and 3 of section 168-c of the correction
 law, as amended by chapter 11 of the laws of 2002, are amended  to  read
 as follows:
   1.  In  the  case  of  any  sex  offender, it shall be the duty of the
 department, hospital or local correctional facility at least ten  calen-
 dar  days  prior  to the release or discharge of any sex offender from a
 correctional facility, hospital or local correctional facility to notify
 the division of the contemplated release or discharge of such sex offen-
 der, informing the division in writing on a form provided by  the  divi-
 sion  indicating  the  address at which he or she proposes to reside and
 the name and address of any institution of higher education at which  he
 or  she  expects  to  be  enrolled,  attending  or employed, whether for
 compensation or not, and whether he or she resides in or will reside  in
 a  facility  owned or operated by such institution. If such sex offender
 changes his or her place of residence while on parole, such notification
 of the change of residence shall be sent by the  sex  offender's  parole
 officer  within  forty-eight hours to the division on a form provided by
 the division. If such sex offender changes the  status  of  his  or  her
 enrollment,  attendance,  employment  or residence at any institution of
 higher education while on parole, such notification  of  the  change  of
 status  shall be sent by the sex offender's parole officer within forty-
 eight hours to the division on a form provided by the division.  IN  ANY
 CASE,  A  SEX OFFENDER MUST REPORT EACH ADDRESS WHERE HE OR SHE RESIDES,
 INCLUDING ANY MULTIPLE OR PART-TIME RESIDENCES.

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

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   2. In the case of any sex offender on probation, it shall be the  duty
 of  the  sex  offender's probation officer to notify the division within
 forty-eight hours of [the] ALL new [place] PLACES of residence on a form
 provided by the division. If such sex offender changes the status of his
 or  her  enrollment, attendance, employment or residence at any institu-
 tion of higher education while on probation, such  notification  of  the
 change  of  status shall be sent by the sex offender's probation officer
 within forty-eight hours to the division on a form provided by the divi-
 sion.
   3. In the case in which any sex offender escapes from a state or local
 correctional facility or hospital, the designated official of the facil-
 ity or hospital where the person was confined shall notify within  twen-
 ty-four  hours the law enforcement agency having had jurisdiction at the
 time of his or her conviction, informing such law enforcement agency  of
 the  name  and  aliases  of  the person, and the address OR ADDRESSES at
 which he or she resided at the time of his or her conviction, the amount
 of time remaining to be served, if any, on the full term for which he or
 she was sentenced, and the nature of the crime for which he or  she  was
 sentenced,  transmitting  at the same time a copy of such sex offender's
 fingerprints and photograph and a summary of his or her criminal record.
   § 2. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 2 of section 168-f of the correction
 law, as added by chapter 192 of the laws of 1995, is amended to read  as
 follows:
   (b)  The  verification  form  shall be signed by the sex offender, and
 state that he still resides at the address OR ADDRESSES last reported to
 the division.
   § 3. Subdivision 4 of section 168-f of the correction law, as  amended
 by chapter 67 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as follows:
   4. Any sex offender shall register with the division no later than ten
 calendar days after any change of address, internet accounts with inter-
 net  access  providers  belonging to such offender, internet identifiers
 that such offender uses, or his or her status of enrollment, attendance,
 employment or residence at any institution of higher  education.  A  SEX
 OFFENDER MUST REPORT EACH ADDRESS WHERE HE OR SHE RESIDES, INCLUDING ANY
 MULTIPLE OR PART-TIME RESIDENCES. A fee of ten dollars, as authorized by
 subdivision  eight of section one hundred sixty-eight-b of this article,
 shall be submitted by the sex offender each time such offender registers
 any change of address or any change of his or her status of  enrollment,
 attendance,  employment or residence at any institution of higher educa-
 tion. Any failure or omission to  submit  the  required  fee  shall  not
 affect the acceptance by the division of the change of address or change
 of status.
   §  4.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law.