Bill Text: NY A05938 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Prohibits a sex offender whose victim was a child and level 3 sex offenders from knowingly being within 1,000 feet of a child care provider, preschool or any facility where pre-kindergarten or kindergarten instruction is provided.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to correction [A05938 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A05938-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5938

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      March 2, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. JACOBSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Correction

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  executive law and the penal law, in relation to
          prohibiting certain convicted sex offenders from knowingly being with-
          in 1,000 feet of a child care provider, a preschool or any place where
          pre-kindergarten or kindergarten instruction is provided

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  14 of section 259-c of the executive law, as
     2  amended by section 38-b of subpart A of part C of chapter 62 of the laws
     3  of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
     4    14. notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary,  where
     5  a  person  serving  a  sentence  for  an  offense defined in article one
     6  hundred thirty, one hundred thirty-five or two  hundred  sixty-three  of
     7  the  penal  law or section 255.25, 255.26 or 255.27 of the penal law and
     8  the victim of such offense was under the age of eighteen at the time  of
     9  such offense or such person has been designated a level three sex offen-
    10  der  pursuant to subdivision six of section one hundred sixty-eight-l of
    11  the correction law, is released  on  parole  or  conditionally  released
    12  pursuant  to  subdivision  one  or  two of this section, the board shall
    13  require, as a mandatory condition of such release, that  such  sentenced
    14  offender  shall  refrain from knowingly entering into or upon any school
    15  grounds, as that term is defined  in  subdivision  fourteen  of  section
    16  220.00  of  the  penal  law, or within one thousand feet of a child care
    17  provider, a preschool, or any facility or institution where  pre-kinder-
    18  garten or kindergarten instruction is provided, or any other facility or
    19  institution  primarily  used  for the care or treatment of persons under
    20  the age of eighteen while one or more of such persons under the  age  of
    21  eighteen  are present, provided however, that when such sentenced offen-
    22  der is a registered student or participant or an employee of such facil-
    23  ity or institution or entity  contracting  therewith  or  has  a  family

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09691-01-1

        A. 5938                             2

     1  member enrolled in such facility or institution, such sentenced offender
     2  may, with the written authorization of his or her parole officer and the
     3  superintendent  or  chief administrator of such facility, institution or
     4  grounds,  enter  such facility, institution or upon such grounds for the
     5  limited purposes authorized by the parole officer and superintendent  or
     6  chief  officer.    Nothing  in  this  subdivision  shall be construed as
     7  restricting any lawful condition of supervision that may be  imposed  on
     8  such sentenced offender.
     9    §  2.   Paragraph (a) of subdivision 4-a of section 65.10 of the penal
    10  law, as amended by chapter 67 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as
    11  follows:
    12    (a) When imposing a sentence of  probation  or  conditional  discharge
    13  upon  a  person  convicted  of an offense defined in article one hundred
    14  thirty, two hundred thirty-five or two hundred sixty-three of this chap-
    15  ter, or section 255.25, 255.26 or 255.27 of this chapter, and the victim
    16  of such offense was under the age  of  eighteen  at  the  time  of  such
    17  offense  or  such  person has been designated a level three sex offender
    18  pursuant to subdivision six of section [168-l] one hundred sixty-eight-l
    19  of the correction law, the court shall require, as a mandatory condition
    20  of such sentence, that such sentenced offender shall refrain from  know-
    21  ingly  entering into or upon any school grounds, as that term is defined
    22  in subdivision fourteen of section 220.00 of this chapter, or within one
    23  thousand feet of a child care provider, a preschool, or any facility  or
    24  institution   where  pre-kindergarten  or  kindergarten  instruction  is
    25  provided, or any other facility or institution primarily  used  for  the
    26  care or treatment of persons under the age of eighteen while one or more
    27  of such persons under the age of eighteen are present, provided however,
    28  that when such sentenced offender is a registered student or participant
    29  or  an  employee  of  such facility or institution or entity contracting
    30  therewith or has a family member enrolled in such facility  or  institu-
    31  tion, such sentenced offender may, with the written authorization of his
    32  or  her  probation  officer or the court and the superintendent or chief
    33  administrator of such  facility,  institution  or  grounds,  enter  such
    34  facility,  institution  or  upon  such  grounds for the limited purposes
    35  authorized by the probation officer or the court and  superintendent  or
    36  chief  officer.  Nothing  in  this  subdivision  shall  be  construed as
    37  restricting any lawful condition of supervision that may be  imposed  on
    38  such sentenced offender.
    39    §  3.  This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
    40  the date on which it shall have become a law.
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