Bill Text: NY A01933 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits any sex offender from residing within a quarter mile of any school, playground, park or building in which child day care is provided.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Republican 11-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-14 - held for consideration in correction [A01933 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A01933-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1933
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 18, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. HAWLEY, CROUCH, PALUMBO, RAIA, McDONOUGH, STECK
          -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. WALSH -- read once and  referred  to
          the Committee on Correction
        AN ACT to amend the correction law, the executive law and the penal law,
          in  relation to prohibiting sex offenders from living within a quarter
          mile of any school, park, playground or building in  which  child  day
          care is provided
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 168-b of the correction law is amended by adding  a
     2  new subdivision 13 to read as follows:
     3    13.  The  division, when acknowledging initial registration and there-
     4  after in annual correspondence, shall advise each sex offender  to  whom
     5  the  residency  restriction in section one hundred sixty-eight-w of this
     6  article applies, concerning the terms  and  specific  duration  of  such
     7  restriction.
     8    § 2. Section 168-t of the correction law, as amended by chapter 373 of
     9  the laws of 2007, is amended to read as follows:
    10    §  168-t.  Penalty. Any sex offender required to register or to verify
    11  pursuant to the provisions of this article  who  fails  to  register  or
    12  verify  in  the  manner and within the time periods provided for in this
    13  article shall be guilty of a class E  felony  upon  conviction  for  the
    14  first  offense,  and  upon conviction for a second or subsequent offense
    15  shall be guilty of a class D felony. Any sex offender who  violates  the
    16  provisions  of  section  one hundred sixty-eight-v or subdivision one of
    17  section one hundred sixty-eight-w of this article shall be guilty  of  a
    18  class  A  misdemeanor  upon  conviction  for the first offense, and upon
    19  conviction for a second or subsequent offense shall be guilty of a class
    20  D felony. Any such failure to register or verify may also be  the  basis
    21  for revocation of parole pursuant to section two hundred fifty-nine-i of
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  the  executive  law or the basis for revocation of probation pursuant to
     2  article four hundred ten of the criminal procedure law.
     3    § 3. Section 168-w of the correction law, as relettered by chapter 604
     4  of the laws of 2005, is relettered section 168-x and a new section 168-w
     5  is added to read as follows:
     6    §  168-w. Residency requirements for sex offenders. 1. No sex offender
     7  shall reside in a residence that is within one  thousand  three  hundred
     8  fifty feet of any school building, playground, park or building in which
     9  child day care is provided.
    10    2.  For  purposes  of  this  section,  "school" shall mean a public or
    11  private elementary, parochial, intermediate, junior high, vocational  or
    12  high school regularly used for instructional purposes.
    13    3.  The  provisions of this section shall remain in effect for as long
    14  as the offender is classified as a sex offender.
    15    4. Nothing in this section  shall  be  construed  as  restricting  any
    16  lawful condition that may be imposed on a sentenced sex offender.
    17    §  4.  Section  259-c  of the executive law is amended by adding a new
    18  subdivision 18 to read as follows:
    19    18. when the provisions of section one hundred  sixty-eight-w  of  the
    20  correction  law  concerning  certain  restrictions  on  residence apply,
    21  direct the division to notify the releasee of the restriction in writing
    22  and direct the supervising parole officer to notify the releasee of such
    23  restriction orally and in writing.
    24    § 5. Section 65.10 of the penal law is amended by adding a new  subdi-
    25  vision 6 to read as follows:
    26    6.  Notice  of  residency  requirements  for  sex  offenders. When the
    27  provisions of section one hundred sixty-eight-w of  the  correction  law
    28  concerning  certain  restrictions  on  residence  apply, the court shall
    29  notify the defendant of the restriction in writing and  the  supervising
    30  probation  officer  shall  notify the offender of the restriction orally
    31  and in writing.
    32    § 6. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
    33  have become a law and shall apply to sex offenders convicted or released
    34  on or after such date.