Bill Text: NY S00281 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 281

Introduced

Bill Title: Authorizes municipalities to establish residency restrictions for sex offenders.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-08 - REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION [S00281 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                           281

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 8, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sens. RHOADS, BORRELLO -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Crime  Victims,
          Crime and Correction

        AN  ACT  to amend the correction law, in relation to authorizing munici-
          palities to establish residency restrictions for sex offenders

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

     1    Section  1.  Legislative  findings. It is the sense of the legislature
     2  that determinations regarding restrictions upon  the  residence  of  sex
     3  offenders  who  are  required  to register pursuant to the provisions of
     4  article 6-C of the correction law should be made by  the  local  munici-
     5  pality  in  which  such  offenders  reside since municipalities are in a
     6  better position than the state, after taking  into  consideration  local
     7  conditions  and  after  determining  what entities with vulnerable popu-
     8  lations would require protection from registered sex offenders, to  make
     9  such determinations.
    10    § 2. Section 168-w of the correction law, as renumbered by chapter 604
    11  of the laws of 2005, is renumbered section 168-x and a new section 168-w
    12  is added to read as follows:
    13    § 168-w. Municipal residency restrictions.  Any municipality may enact
    14  a  local  law  which  imposes  residency restrictions upon sex offenders
    15  required to register pursuant to this article, provided that such  resi-
    16  dency  restrictions  are  no  less restrictive than the requirements set
    17  forth in paragraph (a) of subdivision four-a of  section  65.10  of  the
    18  penal  law  and subdivision fourteen of section two hundred fifty-nine-c
    19  of the executive law.
    20    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.


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