Bill Text: NY A02404 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits registered sex offenders from using or being within five hundred feet of any state or municipal-owned park.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 10-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to correction [A02404 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A02404-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2404

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 26, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. ANGELINO, DeSTEFANO, DiPIETRO, DURSO, LEMONDES,
          McDONOUGH, MIKULIN, MILLER, MORINELLO -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Correction

        AN ACT to amend the correction  law,  in  relation  to  prohibiting  sex
          offenders from using state and municipal parks

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

     1    Section 1. Section 168-w of the correction law, as renumbered by chap-
     2  ter 604 of the laws of 2005, is  renumbered  section  168-x  and  a  new
     3  section 168-w is added to read as follows:
     4    §  168-w.  Prohibiting  use  of  parks.  Any person who is required to
     5  register pursuant to this article is prohibited from entering, being  in
     6  or  being located within five hundred feet of any of the following plac-
     7  es:
     8    1. State park.
     9    2. Municipal-owned park.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06447-01-3