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S 2365: Includes authorized internet entities in the information sex offenders are required to disclose upon registration.

New York · Senate · 2025–2026 Legislative Session · last verified January 11, 2026

What S 2365 does, verified January 11, 2026

The bill aims to amend the Correction Law in New York to include authorized internet entities in the information sex offenders are required to disclose upon registration. This change will require sex offenders to disclose their internet accounts and identifiers used by them. Sex offenders are also required to register with the division within ten calendar days of any change of address, internet accounts, or status updates. A fee of $10 will be submitted by the offender each time they register a change of address or status. The bill will take effect ninety days after it becomes a law.

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Last action: REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION (2026-01-07)Alert me
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Jan. 07, 2026REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION
Jan. 16, 2025REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION
Latest bill textIntroduced version, January 16, 2025 · 444 words
  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2365 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE January 16, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SCARCELLA-SPANTON -- 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 including authorized internet entities in the information sex offenders are required to disclose upon registration 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 and internet identifiers or 8 authorized internet entities that such offender uses. 9 § 2. Subdivision 4 of section 168-f of the correction law, as amended 10 by chapter 67 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as follows: 11 4. Any sex offender shall register with the division no later than ten 12 calendar days after any change of address, internet accounts with inter- 13 net access providers belonging to such offender, internet identifiers or 14 authorized internet entities that such offender uses, or [his or her] 15 such offender's status of enrollment, attendance, employment or resi- 16 dence at any institution of higher education. A fee of ten dollars, as 17 authorized by subdivision eight of section one hundred sixty-eight-b of 18 this article, shall be submitted by the sex offender each time such 19 offender registers any change of address or any change of [his or her] 20 such offender's status of enrollment, attendance, employment or resi- 21 dence at any institution of higher education. Any failure or omission to 22 submit the required fee shall not affect the acceptance by the division 23 of the change of address or change of status. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD06423-01-5 

 S. 2365 2 1 § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 2 have become a law. Effective immediately the addition, amendment and/or 3 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of 4 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed 5 on or before such date. 

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