BILL NUMBER: S155
SPONSOR: PALUMBO
 
TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the correction law and the general business law, in
relation to requiring nonresident visitor sex offenders and registered
sex offenders register when temporarily residing within the state
 
PURPOSE:
To safeguard families by providing a process requiring designated sex
offenders to make notification of their intentions to stay at short term
rental property.
 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section 168-a of the correction law is amended by adding a new subdivi-
sion 19 to include a definition of non-resident or non-resident sex
offender. Also requires any non-resident visitor sex offender or sex
offender staying at a temporary residence to inform the owner of the
temporary residence if not a short-term rental unit or the short-term
rental host or the hosting platform of his or her status as a non-resi-
dent visitor sex offender or sex offender no later than ten days before
his or her stay at a temporary residence.
Subdivision 6 of section 168-f of the correction law, as added by chap-
ter 11 of the laws of 2002, is amended to require a resident or non-re-
sident sex offender to report his/her stay at a temporary residence to
the Division of Criminal Justice Services within 10 days.
The general business law is amended by adding a new section 398-g to
include definitions of residential dwelling, short-term rental unit,
short-term rental host and hosting platform.
 
JUSTIFICATION:
Currently, there are no safeguards in effect to notify residents living
in properties adjacent to or in proximity to short-term rental units
that resident or non-resident level two or level three sex offenders are
occupying the unit regardless of the length of stay. The notification
required by this legislation would provide the opportunity for homeown-
ers in the community the opportunity to take additional measures to
safeguard their families prior to arrival of the sex offender. The
provision requiring resident and nonresident sex offenders to report a
temporary stay to Division of Criminal Justice Services provides the
local law enforcement jurisdiction to be vigilant of activities in the
community where the short-term rental unit is located.
 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
2024 S.3002
 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
TBD
 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on the first November next succeeding the
date on which it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the
addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary
for the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized
to be made and completed on or before such effective date.

Statutes affected:
S155: 168-a correction law, 168-f correction law, 168-f(6) correction law