Bill Text: NY A02393 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Restricts a registered sex offender from residing within 1000 feet of a school.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-22 - enacting clause stricken [A02393 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A02393-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2393
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 20, 2017
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        Introduced  by  M.  of A. BRINDISI, MORELLE -- read once and referred to
          the Committee on Correction
        AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to the  residence  of  a
          level 3 sex offender
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 168-c of the correction law is amended by adding  a
     2  new subdivision 2-a to read as follows:
     3    2-a. No level 3 sex offender released or discharged from a correction-
     4  al  facility,  hospital  or  local  correctional  facility  or placed on
     5  probation shall reside within one  thousand  feet  of  a  building  used
     6  exclusively  as  a  school or within one thousand feet of another regis-
     7  tered sex offender, the measurements to be taken in straight lines  from
     8  the  center  of   the nearest entrance of the residence to the center of
     9  the nearest entrance of such school.
    10    § 2. Section 168-f of the correction law is amended by  adding  a  new
    11  subdivision 4-a to read as follows:
    12    4-a.  A  level  3  sex offender, after his or her discharge, parole or
    13  release from any correctional facility, hospital or  local  facility  or
    14  who  was  placed  on probation and who has established a residence shall
    15  not change said residence so as to reside within one thousand feet of  a
    16  building  used  exclusively  as  a school or within one thousand feet of
    17  another registered  sex  offender,  the  measurements  to  be  taken  in
    18  straight  lines from the center of the nearest entrance of the residence
    19  to the center of the nearest entrance of such school.
    20    § 3. Section 168-k of the correction law is amended by  adding  a  new
    21  subdivision 5 to read as follows:
    22    5.  A level 3 sex offender who has established residence in this state
    23  pursuant to this section shall not reside within one thousand feet of  a
    24  building  used  exclusively  as  a school or within one thousand feet of
    25  another registered  sex  offender,  the  measurements  to  be  taken  in
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  straight  lines from the center of the nearest entrance of the residence
     2  to the center of the nearest entrance of such school.
     3    § 4. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
     4  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.