S 637: Relates to notice of transfer of sex offender to community program or residence.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 637 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. GALLIVAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Disabilities AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to notice of trans- fer of sex offender to community program or residence The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 13.09 of the mental hygiene law is amended by 2 adding a new subdivision (j) to read as follows: 3 (j) The commissioner shall notify the chief executive officer of any 4 municipality where a sex offender, as defined pursuant to subdivision 5 one of section one hundred sixty-eight-a of the correction law, is 6 transferred to a community program or residence within his or her muni- 7 cipality. The commissioner shall also notify the superintendent of 8 schools in which such facility is located. Notice shall be given no 9 later than ten calendar days prior to such transfer. 10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD02580-01-5