Bill Text: NY A08522 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to notice of transfer of sex offender to community program or residence.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to mental health [A08522 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A08522-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8522
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      June 19, 2017
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. GALEF, MORELLE -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Mental Health
        AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to notice of  trans-
          fer of sex offender to community program or residence
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 13.09 of the  mental  hygiene  law  is  amended  by
     2  adding a new subdivision (i) to read as follows:
     3    (i)  The  commissioner shall notify the chief executive officer of any
     4  municipality where a sex offender, as defined  pursuant  to  subdivision
     5  one  of  section  one  hundred  sixty-eight-a  of the correction law, is
     6  transferred to a community program or residence within his or her  muni-
     7  cipality.  The  commissioner  shall  also  notify  the superintendent of
     8  schools in which such facility is located.  Notice  shall  be  given  no
     9  later than ten calendar days prior to such transfer.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00102-01-7