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- Signed chap.278
- Delivered to governor
- Returned to senate
- Passed assembly
- Ordered to third reading cal.886
- Substituted for A3024F
- Referred to correction
- Returned to assembly
- Repassed senate
- Amended on third reading 2490e
- Vote reconsidered - restored to third reading
- Returned to senate
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- Recalled from assembly
- Referred to correction
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 58–3
- Amended on third reading 2490d
- Advanced to third reading
- 2nd report cal.
- 1st report cal.74
- Print number 2490c
- Amend and recommit to crime victims, crime and correction
- Referred to crime victims, crime and correction
- Returned to senate
- Died in assembly
- Referred to correction
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 58–0
- Advanced to third reading
- Amended 2490b
- 2nd report cal.
- 1st report cal.277
- Print number 2490a
- Amend and recommit to crime victims, crime and correction
- Referred to crime victims, crime and correction
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Provides notice to public housing authorities whenever a sex offender is released to public housing
Assembly Floor Calendar · Sponsor Michael Benjamin
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BILL NUMBER:S2490E
Title of bill
An act to amend the correction law, in relation to notice whenever a sex offender is released to a public housing residence
Purpose or general idea of bill
Requires the Division of Criminal Justice Services to make sex offender registry information regarding level 2 and 3 offenders available to municipal housing authorities.
Summary of specific provisions
Section 1: Amends Correction Law section 168-b to provide that the Divi- sion shall make available sex offender registry information regarding level 2 and 3 sex offenders to municipal housing authorities to ensure that such persons do not live in such public housing projects as is provided for under Federal Law.
Section 2 is the effective date.
Justification
In 1998, Congress banned subsidized housing for the most serious sex offenders after a convicted sex offender was charged with assaulting and molesting a 9-year-old neighbor girl who lived in the same public hous- ing building. Also known as the Quality Housing and Work Responsibility Act, this new legislation prohibited housing authorities from admitting any household that includes a person subject to the lifetime sex offen- der registration requirement.
In March 2009, a report released by NYC Councilman Eric Gioia found 126 sex offenders living in New York city public housing facilities, up 12% from the year before. 42 of the City's 3,432 registered sex offenders live in projects in Brooklyn, 37 in Manhattan, 26 in the Bronx, 8 in Queens and 3 in Staten Island.
More recently, a report by the Inspector General of the Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Department, estimated that roughly 2,100-3,000 households currently residing in federally subsidized housing include a serious sex offender. According to investigators, the primary reason why HUD failed to meet the law's objective was that HUD failed to ask prospective residents if they were subject to a lifetime registration requirement and did not require housing authorities to check the national sex offender registry prior to recertifying the eligibility of its current residents.
Prior legislative history
2007-08: (A.7442)
Fiscal implications
The HUD Inspector General estimates that more than $12 million could be saved annually by not subsidizing housing for households with a lifetime registered sex offender.
Effective date
This act shall take effect 60 days after it shall have become law.
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