Bill Text: NY A03621 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides for employment limits for level three sex offenders to outside a five hundred foot radius of a daycare or school; penalty for offender is a class E felony; prohibition remains as long as offender is level three.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-5)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to correction [A03621 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A03621-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3621
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 29, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M.  of A. GUNTHER, GALEF, CRESPO, ZEBROWSKI, OTIS, RAIA,
          PALUMBO, STEC, WALSH -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ABBATE, CROUCH,
          MOSLEY, PERRY, RIVERA -- read once and referred to  the  Committee  on
          Correction
        AN  ACT  to  amend the correction law, in relation to employment limita-
          tions for level three 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 renumbered section 168-x and a new
     3  section 168-w is added to read as follows:
     4    § 168-w. Level three sex offenders employment limitation; penalty.  1.
     5  It  shall  be  unlawful  for any level three sex offender to work within
     6  five hundred feet of  any  public  or  private  nursery,  elementary  or
     7  secondary school or licensed day care facility.
     8    2.  No  employer  shall knowingly permit or cause the placement of any
     9  level three sex offender at any work location within five  hundred  feet
    10  of  any  public  or  private  nursery, elementary or secondary school or
    11  licensed day care facility.
    12    3. The employment prohibition established by subdivisions one and  two
    13  of  this  section  shall remain in effect for as long as the offender is
    14  classified as a level three sex offender.
    15    4. A sex offender who knowingly violates the provisions of subdivision
    16  one of this section shall be guilty of a class E felony.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
    18  ing the date upon which it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00478-01-9