Bill Text: NY S04099 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to prohibiting a person required to register under the sex offender registration act from possessing an online gamer account.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION [S04099 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S04099-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4099
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 28, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen. SKOUFIS -- 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 prohibiting a person
          required to register under the  sex  offender  registration  act  from
          possessing an online gamer account
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 168-w of the correction law, as relettered by chap-
     2  ter 604 of the laws of 2005, is  relettered  section  168-x  and  a  new
     3  section 168-w is added to read as follows:
     4    § 168-w. Prohibition of online gamer accounts. 1. For purposes of this
     5  section  an  "online  gamer account" means a user name or other name, or
     6  identifying data that allows such individual or user  to  engage,  spec-
     7  tate,  message,  communicate,  participate,  or  play  on  the internet,
     8  console, gaming system, and/or network, in which other  individuals  can
     9  engage  in the same game, games, activities, or multiplayer features. An
    10  "online gamer account" includes, but is not limited to, a console gaming
    11  account, computer gaming account, user tag,  user  account,  user  name,
    12  network  account,  X-box  gamer  tag, PlayStation Network name, Nintendo
    13  Network ID, online multiplayer user  name,  online  multiplayer  playing
    14  account,  unique  user  name,  or any other profile and/or named account
    15  that allows such individual or user to engage, spectate, message, commu-
    16  nicate, participate, or play on the internet,  console,  gaming  system,
    17  and/or  network, in which other individuals can engage in the same game,
    18  games, activities, or multiplayer features.
    19    2. a. No person required to maintain registration under  this  article
    20  shall  be  permitted  to  have  an online gamer account that allows such
    21  person to engage in the watching, participation, communication,  messag-
    22  ing,  talking,  and/or  playing  of  any type of game over the internet,
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02172-01-9

        S. 4099                             2
     1  console, platform, system, online multiplayer feature, or any other type
     2  of device, in which minors also have access to an online gamer account.
     3    b. Any person required to maintain registration under this article who
     4  currently  has  such  online  gamer  account shall delete, remove and/or
     5  cancel such online gamer account within seven days after  the  effective
     6  date  of  this  section.  Such person shall report such account, and the
     7  account's deletion, to the division within seven days after  the  effec-
     8  tive date of this section.
     9    3.  a. Any person required to maintain registration under this article
    10  who fails to report such online gamer account to the division seven days
    11  after the effective date of this section shall be guilty of  a  class  A
    12  misdemeanor.
    13    b. Any person required to maintain registration under this article who
    14  currently  has  such  online  gamer account at the time of the effective
    15  date of this section, and who fails to delete, remove and/or cancel such
    16  online gamer account within seven days after the effective date of  this
    17  section shall be guilty of a class A misdemeanor.
    18    c. Any person required to maintain registration under this article who
    19  creates an online gamer account after the effective date of this section
    20  shall be guilty of a class A misdemeanor. Upon the second violation, and
    21  each  subsequent  violation,  of  this  subdivision such person shall be
    22  guilty of a class E felony.
    23    § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
    24  have become a law.
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