Bills · 2013-2014 Regular Session
Relating to: information on a person who is required to register as a sex offender and notification of law enforcement when certain sex offenders change residential addresses. (FE)
Corrections, department of Court — Procedure Health services, department of — Corrections Police Sex crimes Sheriff
- Introduced, stopped here
- Passes Senate, not reached
- Passes Assembly, not reached
- Governor signs, not reached
- Law, not reached
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What this bill does
Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau
Under current law, a person must register with the Department of Corrections
(DOC) as a sex offender if he or she has been convicted of certain sex offenses, found
not guilty of certain sex offenses by reason of mental disease or defect, or adjudicated
delinquent on the basis of certain sex offenses. DOC must provide the general public
with Internet access to certain information on the registry, such as a registrant's
name, physical description, address, and crime that subjects the registrant to the
requirement to register. This bill requires the registry to include, and make available
to the general public, any sex offense that was dismissed as part of a plea agreement
if the court ordered the offender to register and all addresses at which a registrant
will reside. In addition, the general public Internet site must indicate all addresses
for each entry in the sex offender register, whether the entry is a registrant's name
or an alias a registrant uses.
Under current law, when a registrant is released into the community from
confinement or other care, DOC or the Department of Health Services (DHS),
whichever agency has authority over the registrant, has the option to notify the
police chief of the community, and the sheriff of the county, in which the registrant
will be residing, employed, or attending school if the registrant has been convicted,
or found not guilty by reason of mental defect or disease, of a sex offense only one time
and must notify the police chief of the community, and the sheriff of the county, in
which the registrant will be residing, employed, or attending school or through which
the registrant will be traveling if the registrant has been, on two or more occasions,
convicted, or found not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect, of a sex offense
or if the registrant has been found to be a sexually violent person. The notification
must include the registrant's residential address. This bill requires DOC or DHS,
if the agency provided notice, to notify the same persons if the registrant moves.
What it would cost
Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs
Sponsors
Full history
- Feb 26, 2014 · Senate
Introduced by Senators Petrowski and Lassa; cosponsored by Representatives Williams, Brooks, T. Larson, Born, Kaufert, Ohnstad, Jorgensen, Bernier and Nass
- Feb 26, 2014 · Senate
Read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation, Public Safety, and Veterans and Military Affairs
- Mar 7, 2014 · Senate
Fiscal estimate received
- Mar 17, 2014 · Senate
Fiscal estimate received
- Apr 8, 2014 · Senate
Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1