Bill Text: NY A01499 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides for employment limits for level three sex offenders to outside a five hundred foot radius of a daycare or school; penalty for offender is E felony; prohibition remains as long as offender is level three.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - referred to correction [A01499 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A01499-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         1499
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 9, 2013
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       Introduced  by  M. of A. GUNTHER, GALEF, WEISENBERG, ROBINSON, GOLDFEDER
         -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of  A.  ABBATE,  BOYLAND,  HOOPER,  MAGEE,
         MARKEY,  SWEENEY  --  read  once  and  referred  to  the  Committee on
         Correction
       AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation  to  employment  limita-
         tions for level three sex offenders
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. The correction law is amended by adding a new section  168-
    2  qq to read as follows:
    3    S 168-QQ. LEVEL THREE SEX OFFENDERS EMPLOYMENT LIMITATION; PENALTY. 1.
    4  IT  SHALL  BE  UNLAWFUL  FOR ANY LEVEL THREE SEX OFFENDER TO WORK WITHIN
    5  FIVE HUNDRED FEET OF  ANY  PUBLIC  OR  PRIVATE  NURSERY,  ELEMENTARY  OR
    6  SECONDARY SCHOOL OR LICENSED DAY CARE FACILITY.
    7    2.  NO  EMPLOYER  SHALL KNOWINGLY PERMIT OR CAUSE THE PLACEMENT OF ANY
    8  LEVEL THREE SEX OFFENDER AT ANY WORK LOCATION WITHIN FIVE  HUNDRED  FEET
    9  OF  ANY  PUBLIC  OR  PRIVATE  NURSERY, ELEMENTARY OR SECONDARY SCHOOL OR
   10  LICENSED DAY CARE FACILITY.
   11    3. THE EMPLOYMENT PROHIBITION ESTABLISHED BY SUBDIVISIONS ONE AND  TWO
   12  OF  THIS  SECTION  SHALL REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR AS LONG AS THE OFFENDER IS
   13  CLASSIFIED AS A LEVEL THREE SEX OFFENDER.
   14    4. A SEX OFFENDER WHO KNOWINGLY VIOLATES THE PROVISIONS OF SUBDIVISION
   15  ONE OF THIS SECTION SHALL BE GUILTY OF A CLASS E FELONY.
   16    S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
   17  ing the date upon which it shall have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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