NY State Senate Bill 2025-S7603

Senate Bill S7603

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires registering with the sex offender registry no later than five days after any change of address

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Crime Victims, Crime And Correction Committee

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- Passed Assembly
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Delivered to Governor
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Apr 23, 2025	referred to crime victims, crime and correction

2025-S7603 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A5829
Current Committee:: Senate Crime Victims, Crime And Correction
Law Section:: Correction Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §168-f, Cor L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2011-2012: A6549
2013-2014: A5764
2015-2016: A4005
2017-2018: A3188, A10667
2019-2020: A5735
2021-2022: A4776
2023-2024: A4223, A10200

2025-S7603 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires registering with the sex offender registry no later than five days after any change of address.

2025-S7603 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S7603

SPONSOR: RHOADS
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the correction law, in relation to registering with the
sex offender registry no later than five days after any change of
address

 
PURPOSE:

The purpose of the bill is to reduce the length of time, from ten (10)
calendar days to five (5) calendar days, in which a registered sex
offender must register any change of address with the Division of Crimi-
nal Justice Services (DCJS).

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1 of the bill would amend Correction Law § 168 to reduce the
length of time to 5 calendar days that any sex offender must notify
Division of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) of any change of address,
internet accounts with internet 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 insti-
tution of higher education

Section 2 would provide for the effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

Under current law, a registered sex offender has 10 days to notify DCJS
of any change of address. DCJS then notifies the local law enforcement
agency having jurisdiction of the new place of residence.  The agency in
turn, notifies neighbors and other entities of the offender's new
.address. This 10-day window of opportunity provides anonymity to regis-
tered sex offenders in regard to unsuspecting new neighbors and local
law enforcement. By reducing this period from 10 days to five days, the
community and law enforcement will be informed sooner that a sexual
predator has moved into their community in order to take the steps
necessary to keep their children safer.

Likewise, the 10-day window a registered sex offender is allowed to surf
the Internet before reporting any change in Internet accounts or inter-
net identifiers provides virtual anonymity to such offender for this
period of time. Reducing the number of days a sex offender has to report
these changes to DCJS will allow such offender to be monitored more
quickly for illegal activity.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

New bill.

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall have
become a law.

2025-S7603 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7603
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              April 23, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  RHOADS -- 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 registering with the
   sex offender registry no later than five  days  after  any  change  of
   address

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. 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]  FIVE calendar days after any change of address, internet accounts
 with internet access providers  belonging  to  such  offender,  internet
 identifiers  that  such  offender  uses, or [his or her] SUCH OFFENDER'S
 status of enrollment, attendance, employment or residence at any  insti-
 tution  of  higher  education.  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] SUCH OFFENDER'S
 status of enrollment, attendance, employment or residence at any  insti-
 tution  of  higher  education.  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.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00136-01-5

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