New York A 5209: Facilitates compliance with the sex offender registry for offenders without a registerable residence

Bill Text

Bill Search and Legislative Information | New York State Assembly 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

 Skip to main content 

 New York State Assembly

 Speaker Carl E. Heastie

 --> 
 --> 

 --> 

• 
 Assembly Members 

• 
 Legislative Info 

• 
 Public Hearings 

• 
 Speaker's Press 

• 
 Assembly Reports 

• 
 Committees & More 

• Bill Search Home
• Laws
• Legislative Calendar
• Public Hearing Schedule
• Assembly Calendars
• Assembly Committee Agenda 

 Javascript must be enabled to properly view this page. 

 Bill No.: 

• Summary 
• Actions 
• Committee&nbspVotes 
• Floor&nbspVotes 
• Memo 
• Text 
• LFIN 
• Chamber&nbspVideo/Transcript 
A05209 Summary:

BILL NOA05209 

&nbsp

SAME ASSAME AS S03645

&nbsp

SPONSORDeStefano (MS)

&nbsp

COSPNSRMikulin, McDonough, Morinello, Reilly, Manktelow, Smith, Durso, Brown E, Pirozzolo, Angelino,
 Brook-Krasny

&nbsp

MLTSPNSRDiPietro, Hawley

&nbsp

Amd §§168-a, 168-b, 168-f & 168-t, Cor L

&nbsp

Facilitates compliance with the sex offender registry for offenders without a registerable residence; defines "homeless sex offender" and "sex offender registration officer"; makes related provisions.

Go to top A05209 Actions:

BILL NOA05209 

&nbsp

02/12/2025referred to correction

01/07/2026referred to correction

Go to topA05209 Committee&nbspVotes:

Go to topA05209 Floor&nbspVotes:

There are no Assembly votes for this bill in this legislative session.

Go to topA05209 Text:

 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 5209

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 February 12, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. DeSTEFANO, MIKULIN, McDONOUGH, MORINELLO, REILLY,
 MANKTELOW, SMITH, DURSO, E. BROWN, PIROZZOLO, ANGELINO -- Multi-Spon-
 sored by -- M. of A. DiPIETRO, HAWLEY -- read once and referred to
 the Committee on Correction

 AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to facilitating compli-
 ance with the sex offender registry for offenders without a registera-
 ble residence

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

 1 Section 1. Section 168-a of the correction law is amended by adding
 2 two new subdivisions 19 and 20 to read as follows:
 3 19. "Homeless sex offender" means a person required to register as a
 4 sex offender who does not have a registerable residence. For the
 5 purposes of this section a registerable residence is an address where
 6 the sex offender actually resides and where the sex offender may receive
 7 mail. Should a sex offender have an address where such sex offender
 8 actually resides that the United States Postal Service does not deliver
 9 mail, but such sex offender does maintain a valid postal box to receive
 10 their mail, then such offender shall not be considered homeless for the
 11 purposes of this section.
 12 20. "Sex offender registration officer" means a person designated by
 13 the county to collect information regarding the location of homeless sex
 14 offenders and report such to the division for inclusion on the sex
 15 offender registry. The sex offender registration officer shall also
 16 provide, on behalf of the division, necessary notifications to such
 17 offenders. Sex offender registration officers are authorized to share
 18 information regarding the location of homeless sex offenders with other
 19 sex offender registration officers within the state, as well as with the
 20 division and any and all law enforcement agencies, probation and parole.
 21 The sex offender registration officer may designate agents, including
 22 but not limited to a law enforcement agency having jurisdiction, to

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD07537-01-5

 A. 5209 2

 1 facilitate the collection of location information, as well as facilitate
 2 notifications, so long as information collected by such agents is imme-
 3 diately forwarded to the sex offender registration officer.
 4 § 2. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 168-b of the correction
 5 law, as amended by chapter 67 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as
 6 follows:
 7 (a) The sex offender's name, all aliases used, date of birth, sex,
 8 race, height, weight, eye color, driver's license number, home address
 9 and/or expected place of domicile, any internet accounts with internet
 10 access providers belonging to such offender and internet identifiers
 11 that such offender uses. If the sex offender is a homeless sex offender
 12 as defined in subdivision nineteen of section one hundred sixty-eight-a
 13 of this article, then the division shall include that information along
 14 with which county's sex offender registration officer is collecting
 15 location information regarding this homeless sex offender.
 16 § 3. Section 168-b of the correction law is amended by adding two new
 17 subdivisions 13 and 14 to read as follows:
 18 13. For any sex offender