S 5068: Requires sex offenders who fail to register or verify their registration on two or more occasions to wear a location-tracking device while on probation, parole, conditional release or post-release supervision; establishes failure to wear such device shall be a class D felony and grounds for revocation of parole and probation.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5068 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE February 18, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. GRIFFO -- 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 requiring sex offen- ders who repeatedly fail to register and verify to wear a location- transmitting device The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 168-t of the correction law, as amended by chapter 2 373 of the laws of 2007, is amended to read as follows: 3 § 168-t. Penalty. 1. Any sex offender required to register or to veri- 4 fy pursuant to the provisions of this article who fails to register or 5 verify in the manner and within the time periods provided for in this 6 article shall be guilty of a class E felony upon conviction for the 7 first offense, and upon conviction for a second or subsequent offense 8 shall be guilty of a class D felony. Any sex offender who violates the 9 provisions of section one hundred sixty-eight-v of this article shall be 10 guilty of a class A misdemeanor upon conviction for the first offense, 11 and upon conviction for a second or subsequent offense shall be guilty 12 of a class D felony. Any such failure to register or verify may also be 13 the basis for revocation of parole pursuant to section two hundred 14 fifty-nine-i of the executive law or the basis for revocation of 15 probation pursuant to article four hundred ten of the criminal procedure 16 law. 17 2. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, in 18 addition to any other penalty provided in this section, any sex offender 19 found guilty of a violation of this section on two or more occasions 20 shall, if sentenced to probation, be required to wear at all times for 21 the duration of the period of probation a location-transmitting device, 22 and, if sentenced to a period of imprisonment, be required to wear at EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD08536-01-5 
 S. 5068 2 1 all times for the duration of any period of parole, conditional release 2 or post-release supervision a location-transmitting device. 3 (b) The location-transmitting device shall be attached to the sex 4 offender by the agency supervising the sex offender and such agency 5 shall regularly and frequently monitor the information transmitted by 6 the location-transmitting device. 7 (c) Any sex offender who is required to be monitored pursuant to the 8 provisions of this subdivision who violates such requirement shall upon 9 conviction be guilty of a class D felony. Such violation may also be 10 the basis for revocation of parole pursuant to section two hundred 11 fifty-nine-i of the executive law or the basis for the revocation of 12 probation pursuant to article four hundred ten of the criminal procedure 13 law. 14 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 15 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend- 16 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen- 17 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and 18 completed on or before such date.