HSB 558

4(1)(b)(3)(d), who must have initially registered at least five years prior to the filing of the application. A tier II or tier III offender must have initially registered at least years prior to the filing of the application. _____ Under current law, a risk assessment approved by the department of corrections must be completed and an offender must be classified as a low risk to reoffend in order to be granted a modification. The bill strikes this requirement and allows a court to grant a modification if the offender has successfully completed any period of probation, parole, special sentence, or other supervised release for the offense requiring registration. The bill provides that a tier I offender must not have been convicted of any criminal offenses other than simple misdemeanor violations of Code chapter 321 or local traffic ordinances for the 10-year period immediately preceding the filing of the application in order to be granted a modification. The bill provides that a tier II or tier III offender shall not have been convicted of any criminal offenses other than simple misdemeanor violations of Code chapter 321 or local traffic ordinances for the 25-year period immediately preceding the filing of the application. The bill allows a court to reduce the period in which a sex offender is required to register. The bill strikes current law allowing a sex offender to be granted a modification if the offender is required to be on the sex offender registry as a result of an adjudication for a sex offense, the offender is not under the supervision of the juvenile court or a judicial district judicial department of correctional services, and the department of corrections agrees to perform a risk assessment on the sex offender. Under current law, the director of the judicial district department of correctional services supervising the sex offender, or the director’s designee, must stipulate to the modification. The bill strikes this requirement.