Bill Text: NY A08523 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires sex offenders to register authorized internet entities that such offender uses, including social media websites.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-14 - held for consideration in correction [A08523 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A08523-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          8523

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     August 7, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M. of A. STEC -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Correction

        AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to requiring sex  offen-
          ders to register authorized internet entities that such offender uses

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1  of  section  168-b  of  the
     2  correction law, as amended by chapter 67 of the laws of 2008, is amended
     3  to read as follows:
     4    (a)  The  sex  offender's  name, all aliases used, date of birth, sex,
     5  race, height, weight, eye color, driver's license number,  home  address
     6  and/or  expected  place of domicile, any internet accounts with internet
     7  access providers belonging to such  offender,  any  authorized  internet
     8  entities  that  such  offender  uses  and internet identifiers that such
     9  offender uses.
    10    § 2. Subdivision 4 of section 168-f of the correction law, as  amended
    11  by chapter 67 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as follows:
    12    4. Any sex offender shall register with the division no later than ten
    13  calendar days after any change of address, internet accounts with inter-
    14  net  access  providers  belonging to such offender, internet identifiers
    15  that such offender uses, authorized internet entities that such offender
    16  uses, or his or her status  of  enrollment,  attendance,  employment  or
    17  residence  at any institution of higher education. A fee of ten dollars,
    18  as authorized by subdivision eight of section one hundred  sixty-eight-b
    19  of  this  article, shall be submitted by the sex offender each time such
    20  offender registers any change of address or any change  of  his  or  her
    21  status  of enrollment, attendance, employment or residence at any insti-
    22  tution of higher education.  Any  failure  or  omission  to  submit  the
    23  required  fee  shall  not  affect  the acceptance by the division of the
    24  change of address or change of status.
    25    § 3. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
    26  have become a law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13538-02-9