Bill Text: NY A00846 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 846 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to custody and visitation rights of certain sex offenders.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to correction [A00846 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A00846-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           846

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 6, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. JONES, B. MILLER -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Correction

        AN  ACT  to amend the correction law, in relation to custody and visita-
          tion rights of certain sex offenders

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 168-w of the correction law, as relettered by chap-
     2  ter  604  of  the  laws  of  2005, is relettered section 168-x and a new
     3  section 168-w is added to read as follows:
     4    § 168-w. Custody and visitation rights. 1. Any sex offender designated
     5  as a sexual predator, or a sexually violent offender, or classified as a
     6  level two or three risk, for a crime involving a child shall be,  except
     7  in extraordinary circumstances, prohibited from being granted by a court
     8  physical or legal custody of, or unsupervised visitation with, a child.
     9    2.  Any  sex offender classified as a level two or three risk shall be
    10  presumed to be ineligible to be granted physical or legal custody of, or
    11  unsupervised visitation with, a child, and a court shall grant  physical
    12  or  legal  custody  of, or unsupervised visitation with, a child only if
    13  the sex offender has provided clear and convincing evidence that  grant-
    14  ing  such  custody  or  visitation  will  be in the best interest of the
    15  child.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
    17  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05583-01-1