Bill Text: NY A06467 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Prohibits level two or three sex offenders from voting at a school or facility for children.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 13-3)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-20 - print number 6467a [A06467 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-A06467-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6467--A 2015-2016 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY March 25, 2015 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. CORWIN, RAIA, DUPREY, CERETTO, McDONOUGH, CURRAN, KEARNS, FINCH, HAWLEY -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BRABENEC, GIGLIO, MAGEE, McLAUGHLIN, PALMESANO, SIMANOWITZ, WOZNIAK -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes -- recommitted to the Committee on Codes in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the penal law, the election law and the education law, in relation to voting by level two or 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 penal law is amended by adding two new sections 145.75 2 and 145.80 to read as follows: 3 § 145.75 Unlawfully entering or remaining in a school or facility for 4 children for the purposes of voting in the second degree. 5 1. A person is guilty of unlawfully entering or remaining in a school 6 or facility for children for the purposes of voting in the second 7 degree, when being a level two or level three sex offender, he or she 8 enters or remains in a school or facility for children for the purposes 9 of casting a ballot or otherwise voting during any primary, general, 10 special, school district or other election in which residents, regis- 11 tered or qualified voters are entitled to cast ballots. 12 2. For the purposes of this section: (a) "level two or level three sex 13 offender" shall mean a person registered or required to register under 14 section one hundred sixty-eight-f of the correction law who has received 15 a level two or level three designation pursuant to section one hundred 16 sixty-eight-l of the correction law; and (b) "school or facility for 17 children" shall mean a building, structure, athletic playing field, 18 playground or land contained within the real property boundary line of a 19 public or private elementary, parochial, intermediate, junior high, 20 vocational, or high school, or any other facility or institution prima- EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD01318-03-6
