Bill Text: NY A07067 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Prohibits placing of level 2 and 3 sex offenders in any temporary emergency housing or homeless shelters used to house families with children.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 26-17)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - referred to social services [A07067 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A07067-Introduced.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         7067
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    April 11, 2011
                                      ___________
       Introduced by M. of A. TITONE -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Social Services
       AN  ACT  to  amend  the  social services law, in relation to restricting
         placement of level two or level three sex offenders in  any  temporary
         emergency  housing  or  homeless  shelters used to house families with
         children
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1. The social services law is amended by adding a new section
    2  131-y to read as follows:
    3    S 131-Y.  PLACEMENT  OF  LEVEL  TWO  OR  LEVEL  THREE  SEX  OFFENDERS.
    4  NOTWITHSTANDING ANY INCONSISTENT PROVISION OF LAW, NEITHER THE OFFICE OF
    5  TEMPORARY  AND  DISABILITY  ASSISTANCE,  NOR  A SOCIAL SERVICES OFFICIAL
    6  ACTING ON HIS OR HER OWN OR AS AN AGENT PURSUANT TO SECTION ONE  HUNDRED
    7  THIRTY-EIGHT-A OF THIS TITLE, SHALL PERMIT OR CAUSE THE PLACEMENT OF ANY
    8  SEX  OFFENDER  WHO  HAS  BEEN ASSIGNED A LEVEL TWO OR LEVEL THREE DESIG-
    9  NATION PURSUANT TO ARTICLE SIX-C OF THE CORRECTION LAW, INTO ANY  TEMPO-
   10  RARY  EMERGENCY HOUSING OR HOMELESS SHELTERS USED TO HOUSE FAMILIES WITH
   11  CHILDREN.
   12    S 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
   13  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD04413-04-1
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