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| 5 | 5 | | 2025 -- H 5925 |
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| 7 | 7 | | LC001341 |
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| 9 | 9 | | S T A T E O F R H O D E I S L A N D |
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| 10 | 10 | | IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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| 11 | 11 | | JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2025 |
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| 12 | 12 | | ____________ |
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| 14 | 14 | | A N A C T |
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| 15 | 15 | | RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- SEXUAL OFFENDER REGISTRATION AND |
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| 16 | 16 | | COMMUNITY NOTIFICATI ON |
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| 17 | 17 | | Introduced By: Representatives Fascia, Craven, Nardone, Chippendale, Hull, Lima, J. |
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| 18 | 18 | | Lombardi, Furtado, Place, and Fellela |
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| 19 | 19 | | Date Introduced: February 28, 2025 |
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| 20 | 20 | | Referred To: House Judiciary |
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| 23 | 23 | | It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: |
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| 24 | 24 | | SECTION 1. Section 11-37.1-10 of the General Laws in Chapter 11-37.1 entitled "Sexual 1 |
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| 25 | 25 | | Offender Registration and Community Notification" is hereby amended to read as follows: 2 |
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| 26 | 26 | | 11-37.1-10. Penalties. 3 |
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| 27 | 27 | | (a) Any person who is required to register or verify his or her address or give notice of a 4 |
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| 28 | 28 | | change of address or residence who knowingly fails to do so shall be guilty of a felony and, upon 5 |
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| 29 | 29 | | conviction, be imprisoned not more than ten (10) years, or fined not more than ten thousand dollars 6 |
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| 30 | 30 | | ($10,000), or both. 7 |
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| 31 | 31 | | (b) Any person who is required to register or verify his or her address or give notice of a 8 |
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| 32 | 32 | | change of address or residence who knowingly fails to do so shall be in violation of the terms of 9 |
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| 33 | 33 | | his or her release, regardless of whether or not the term was a special condition of his or her release 10 |
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| 34 | 34 | | on probation, parole, home confinement or other form of supervised release. 11 |
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| 35 | 35 | | (c) Except in the case of a level-three (3) sex offender, any Any person who is required to 12 |
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| 36 | 36 | | register or verify his or her address, who knowingly resides within three hundred feet (300′) of any 13 |
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| 37 | 37 | | school as defined in § 11-37.1-2, which distance shall be measured from the nearest boundary line 14 |
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| 38 | 38 | | of the real property supporting the residence of the person to the nearest boundary line of the real 15 |
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| 39 | 39 | | property that supports or upon which there exists a school shall be guilty of a felony and, upon 16 |
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| 40 | 40 | | conviction, may be imprisoned not more than five (5) years, or fined not more than five thousand 17 |
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| 41 | 41 | | dollars ($5,000), or both. 18 |
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| 45 | 45 | | (d) Any level-three (3) sex offender who knowingly resides within one thousand feet 1 |
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| 46 | 46 | | (1,000′) of any school as defined in § 11-37.1-2, which distance shall be measured from the nearest 2 |
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| 47 | 47 | | boundary line of the real property supporting the residence of the person to the nearest boundary 3 |
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| 48 | 48 | | line of the real property that supports or upon which there exists a school shall be guilty of a felony 4 |
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| 49 | 49 | | and, upon conviction, may be imprisoned for not more than five (5) years, or fined not more than 5 |
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| 50 | 50 | | five thousand dollars ($5,000), or both. 6 |
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| 51 | 51 | | SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage. 7 |
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| 58 | 58 | | EXPLANATION |
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| 59 | 59 | | BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL |
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| 60 | 60 | | OF |
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| 61 | 61 | | A N A C T |
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| 62 | 62 | | RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- SEXUAL OFFENDER REGISTRATION AND |
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| 63 | 63 | | COMMUNITY NOTIFICATI ON |
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| 64 | 64 | | *** |
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| 65 | 65 | | This act would make it a felony for any person required to register as a sex offender to live 1 |
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| 66 | 66 | | within three hundred feet (300’) of a school as defined in § 11-37.1-2. 2 |
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| 67 | 67 | | This act would take effect upon passage. 3 |
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