Bill Text: NY S00436 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Prohibits a sex offender whose victim was a child and level 3 sex offenders from knowingly being within 1,000 feet of a child care provider, preschool or any facility where pre-kindergarten or kindergarten instruction is provided.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO CODES [S00436 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S00436-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 436 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 4, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sens. SKOUFIS, MATTERA, TEDISCO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the executive law and the penal law, in relation to prohibiting certain convicted sex offenders from knowingly being with- in 1,000 feet of a child care provider, a preschool or any place where pre-kindergarten or kindergarten instruction is provided The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 14 of section 259-c of the executive law, as 2 amended by section 38-b of subpart A of part C of chapter 62 of the laws 3 of 2011, is amended to read as follows: 4 14. notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, where 5 a person serving a sentence for an offense defined in article one 6 hundred thirty, one hundred thirty-five or two hundred sixty-three of 7 the penal law or section 255.25, 255.26 or 255.27 of the penal law and 8 the victim of such offense was under the age of eighteen at the time of 9 such offense or such person has been designated a level three sex offen- 10 der pursuant to subdivision six of section one hundred sixty-eight-l of 11 the correction law, is released on parole or conditionally released 12 pursuant to subdivision one or two of this section, the board shall 13 require, as a mandatory condition of such release, that such sentenced 14 offender shall refrain from knowingly entering into or upon any school 15 grounds, as that term is defined in subdivision fourteen of section 16 220.00 of the penal law, or within one thousand feet of a child care 17 provider, a preschool, or any facility or institution where pre-kinder- 18 garten or kindergarten instruction is provided, or any other facility or 19 institution primarily used for the care or treatment of persons under 20 the age of eighteen while one or more of such persons under the age of 21 eighteen are present, provided however, that when such sentenced offen- 22 der is a registered student or participant or an employee of such facil- EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD02189-01-3S. 436 2 1 ity or institution or entity contracting therewith or has a family 2 member enrolled in such facility or institution, such sentenced offender 3 may, with the written authorization of his or her parole officer and the 4 superintendent or chief administrator of such facility, institution or 5 grounds, enter such facility, institution or upon such grounds for the 6 limited purposes authorized by the parole officer and superintendent or 7 chief officer. Nothing in this subdivision shall be construed as 8 restricting any lawful condition of supervision that may be imposed on 9 such sentenced offender. 10 § 2. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 4-a of section 65.10 of the penal 11 law, as amended by chapter 67 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as 12 follows: 13 (a) When imposing a sentence of probation or conditional discharge 14 upon a person convicted of an offense defined in article one hundred 15 thirty, two hundred thirty-five or two hundred sixty-three of this chap- 16 ter, or section 255.25, 255.26 or 255.27 of this chapter, and the victim 17 of such offense was under the age of eighteen at the time of such 18 offense or such person has been designated a level three sex offender 19 pursuant to subdivision six of section [168-l] one hundred sixty-eight-l 20 of the correction law, the court shall require, as a mandatory condition 21 of such sentence, that such sentenced offender shall refrain from know- 22 ingly entering into or upon any school grounds, as that term is defined 23 in subdivision fourteen of section 220.00 of this chapter, or within one 24 thousand feet of a child care provider, a preschool, or any facility or 25 institution where pre-kindergarten or kindergarten instruction is 26 provided, or any other facility or institution primarily used for the 27 care or treatment of persons under the age of eighteen while one or more 28 of such persons under the age of eighteen are present, provided however, 29 that when such sentenced offender is a registered student or participant 30 or an employee of such facility or institution or entity contracting 31 therewith or has a family member enrolled in such facility or institu- 32 tion, such sentenced offender may, with the written authorization of his 33 or her probation officer or the court and the superintendent or chief 34 administrator of such facility, institution or grounds, enter such 35 facility, institution or upon such grounds for the limited purposes 36 authorized by the probation officer or the court and superintendent or 37 chief officer. Nothing in this subdivision shall be construed as 38 restricting any lawful condition of supervision that may be imposed on 39 such sentenced offender. 40 § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding 41 the date on which it shall have become a law.
