A 8538: Adds social security number, past home addresses, social media accounts, and online gamer information to the information required to be reported by a sex offender.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8538 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY May 20, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. LEVENBERG -- read once and referred to the Committee on Correction AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to the registration information required to be reported by a sex offender 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, social security number, all aliases used, 5 date of birth, sex, race, height, weight, eye color, driver's license 6 number, past home addresses, current home address and/or expected place 7 of domicile, any internet accounts with internet access providers 8 belonging to such offender and internet identifiers that such offender 9 uses. For the purposes of this paragraph, "internet accounts" shall 10 include, but not be limited to, all social media accounts and online 11 gamer accounts belonging to such offender. 12 § 2. Subdivision 4 of section 168-f of the correction law, as amended 13 by chapter 67 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as follows: 14 4. Any sex offender shall register with the division no later than ten 15 calendar days after any change of address, internet accounts with inter- 16 net access providers belonging to such offender, internet identifiers 17 that such offender uses, social media accounts, online gamer accounts or 18 [his or her] such offender's status of enrollment, attendance, employ- 19 ment or residence at any institution of higher education. A fee of ten 20 dollars, as authorized by subdivision eight of section one hundred 21 sixty-eight-b of this article, shall be submitted by the sex offender 22 each time such offender registers any change of address or any change of 23 [his or her] such offender's status of enrollment, attendance, employ- 24 ment or residence at any institution of higher education. Any failure or EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD08904-01-5 
 A. 8538 2 1 omission to submit the required fee shall not affect the acceptance by 2 the division of the change of address or change of status. 3 § 3. Section 168-a of the correction law is amended by adding a new 4 subdivision 19 to read as follows: 5 19. "Online gamer account" means a user name or other name, or identi- 6 fying data that allows such individual or user to engage, spectate, 7 message, communicate, participate, or play on the internet, console, 8 gaming system, and/or network, in which other individuals can engage in 9 the same game, games, activities, or multiplayer features. An "online 10 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, Nintendo Switch Online account/name, online multiplayer user 14 name, online multiplayer playing account, unique user name, or any other 15 profile and/or named account that allows such individual or user to 16 engage, spectate, message, communicate, participate, or play on the 17 internet, console, gaming system, and/or network, in which other indi- 18 viduals can engage in the same game, games, activities, or multiplayer 19 features. 20 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.