Bill Text: NY A01290 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides for a sex offender public awareness outreach program to provide educational outreach to schools, community groups and clergy on issues related to sex offenders.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-6)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to correction [A01290 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A01290-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1290
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 14, 2019
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        Introduced  by M. of A. D'URSO, BLAKE, COOK, DAVILA, DICKENS, SEAWRIGHT,
          WILLIAMS, CROUCH, RAIA -- read once and referred to the  Committee  on
          Correction
        AN  ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to establishing the sex
          offender public awareness program
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. Section 168-l of the correction law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 6-a to read as follows:
     3    6-a.   The board shall  establish  a  sex  offender  public  awareness
     4  program.  (a)  The board shall establish an educational outreach program
     5  for  sex  offender  awareness  by  providing  for  educational  outreach
     6  services  to schools, community groups, and clergy.  Such programs shall
     7  be operated at the community level in a manner  consistent  with  proce-
     8  dures set forth in this section.
     9    (b) The board shall promulgate rules and regulations necessary for the
    10  implementation  of  such  outreach  program,  and  shall  be designed to
    11  promote:
    12    (i) alternative funding sources other than the state, including  local
    13  government and private sources;
    14    (ii) coordination of public and private efforts to provide educational
    15  outreach programs; and
    16    (iii)  long  range development of services to be made available to the
    17  schools, communities, and clergy.
    18    (c) These regulations shall also provide for services  including,  but
    19  not  limited  to outreach to the community and education and training of
    20  law enforcement and other criminal justice officials to assist  in  such
    21  educational outreach program.
    22    (d)  The  board shall prepare an annual report to the governor and the
    23  legislature, on or before December first of each year on  the  programs;
    24  including:
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00685-02-9
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     1    (i) the programs funded by the board;
     2    (ii)  other  sources  of funding for the educational outreach programs
     3  provided in this section;
     4    (iii) an assessment of the necessary appropriations to  the  board  to
     5  meet the reasonable needs of the programs under this section; and
     6    (iv)  an  estimate  of  the  reasonable  needs of programs in the next
     7  fiscal year.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
     9  have  become  a  law.    Effective  immediately, the addition, amendment
    10  and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation
    11  of this act on  its  effective  date  are  authorized  to  be  made  and
    12  completed on or before such effective date.