Bill Text: NY S00869 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 869 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Provides that any person who knowingly harbors, houses or employs a sex offender who has failed to register or verify address and employment, and who fails to contact his or her local law enforcement agency regarding such sex offender is guilty of a class A misdemeanor.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Republican 11-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-04-05 - referred to correction [S00869 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S00869-Introduced.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          869
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    January 7, 2015
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       Introduced by Sens. RANZENHOFER, DeFRANCISCO, GOLDEN, LARKIN, MARCHIONE,
         SEWARD  --  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 knowingly harboring a
         sex offender who has failed to register or verify
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1. The correction law is amended by adding a new section 168-
    2  ii to read as follows:
    3    S 168-II.  FAILURE  TO  NOTIFY;  PENALTY.  ANY  PERSON  WHO  KNOWINGLY
    4  HARBORS,  HOUSES  OR  EMPLOYS  A SEX OFFENDER REQUIRED TO REGISTER OR TO
    5  VERIFY RESIDENCE OR EMPLOYMENT PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF THIS  ARTI-
    6  CLE  WHO HAS FAILED TO REGISTER OR TO VERIFY AS REQUIRED BY LAW, AND WHO
    7  FAILS TO NOTIFY HIS OR HER LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY OF THE  LOCATION
    8  OF SUCH SEX OFFENDER, SHALL BE GUILTY OF A CLASS A MISDEMEANOR.
    9    S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
   10  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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