Bill Text: NY A00718 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 718 (Prior Session Legislation)

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

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - referred to correction [A00718 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A00718-Amended.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        718--A
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 9, 2013
                                      ___________
       Introduced by M. of A. BRAUNSTEIN, WEPRIN, GIBSON, MILLER -- Multi-Spon-
         sored  by  -- M.   of A. BARCLAY, CERETTO, CORWIN, CROUCH, KATZ, RAIA,
         TITONE -- read once and referred to the  Committee  on  Correction  --
         committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
         recommitted to said committee
       AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to the  residence  of  a
         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 SEX OFFENDER RELEASED OR DISCHARGED FROM A CORRECTIONAL FACIL-
    4  ITY,  HOSPITAL  OR  LOCAL  CORRECTIONAL  FACILITY OR PLACED ON PROBATION
    5  SHALL RESIDE WITHIN ONE THOUSAND FEET OF A BUILDING USED EXCLUSIVELY  AS
    6  A SCHOOL, THE MEASUREMENTS TO BE TAKEN IN STRAIGHT LINES FROM THE CENTER
    7  OF    THE NEAREST ENTRANCE OF THE RESIDENCE TO THE CENTER OF THE NEAREST
    8  ENTRANCE OF SUCH SCHOOL.
    9    S 2. Section 168-f of the correction law is amended by  adding  a  new
   10  subdivision 4-a to read as follows:
   11    4-A.  A  SEX  OFFENDER,  AFTER HIS OR HER DISCHARGE, PAROLE OR RELEASE
   12  FROM ANY CORRECTIONAL FACILITY, HOSPITAL OR LOCAL FACILITY  OR  WHO  WAS
   13  PLACED ON PROBATION AND WHO HAS ESTABLISHED A RESIDENCE SHALL NOT CHANGE
   14  SAID  RESIDENCE  SO  AS TO RESIDE WITHIN ONE THOUSAND FEET OF A BUILDING
   15  USED EXCLUSIVELY AS A SCHOOL, THE MEASUREMENTS TO BE TAKEN  IN  STRAIGHT
   16  LINES  FROM  THE  CENTER OF THE NEAREST ENTRANCE OF THE RESIDENCE TO THE
   17  CENTER OF THE NEAREST ENTRANCE OF SUCH SCHOOL.
   18    S 3. Section 168-k of the correction law is amended by  adding  a  new
   19  subdivision 5 to read as follows:
   20    5. A SEX OFFENDER WHO HAS ESTABLISHED RESIDENCE IN THIS STATE PURSUANT
   21  TO  THIS SECTION SHALL NOT RESIDE WITHIN ONE THOUSAND FEET OF A BUILDING
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD04254-03-3
       A. 718--A                           2
    1  USED EXCLUSIVELY AS A SCHOOL, THE MEASUREMENTS TO BE TAKEN  IN  STRAIGHT
    2  LINES  FROM  THE  CENTER OF THE NEAREST ENTRANCE OF THE RESIDENCE TO THE
    3  CENTER OF THE NEAREST ENTRANCE OF SUCH SCHOOL.
    4    S 4. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
    5  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.