2010 Senate Bill 1241

Require hangout registration by homeless sex offenders

Introduced in the Senate

March 23, 2010

Introduced by Sen. Wayne Kuipers (R-30)

To require a person on the sex offenders registration list who does not have a valid address (i.e. is homeless) to register the location of any temporary dwelling, or the two intersections closest to where they hang out, at their local police or sheriff’s department. See also Senate Bills 1206 to 1208.

Referred to the Committee on Judiciary

April 14, 2010

Reported without amendment

With the recommendation that the substitute (S-1) be adopted and that the bill then pass.

April 27, 2010

Passed in the Senate 37 to 0 (details)

April 28, 2010

Substitute offered

To replace the previous version of the bill with one that also establishes procedures for a homeless person who is a registered sex offender and is leaving the country, to correct a "Catch 22" situation involving such individuals that developed after a recent Court of Appeals case, People v Dowdy.

The substitute passed by voice vote

Received in the House

April 29, 2010