Bill Text: NY A09991 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes local or state law enforcement agencies or their designees to monitor and verify registration compliance and may enact by local law or resolution requirements for sex offenders to participate in the verification process, for offenders registered as homeless, to provide a description of their location every twenty-four hours to law enforcement; makes related restrictions.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-04 - held for consideration in correction [A09991 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A09991-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9991
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      March 7, 2018
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. THIELE, MURRAY -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Correction
        AN ACT to amend the correction law, in  relation  to  child  and  victim
          safety zones
          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 relettered 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. Child and victim safety zones. Local or state law enforcement
     5  agencies, or their designees may monitor and verify registration compli-
     6  ance  and  counties,  may  enact by local law or resolution requirements
     7  for: 1. sex offenders to provide information to law enforcement or their
     8  designee to verify home and employment address which  have  been  regis-
     9  tered  pursuant  to  the  provisions  of  this article; 2. sex offenders
    10  registered as homeless to provide a description of their location  every
    11  twenty-four  hours  to law enforcement or its designee in that jurisdic-
    12  tion; and/or 3. sex offender residency restrictions  for  sex  offenders
    13  required  to  register  pursuant to this article who are classified as a
    14  level three risk and/or, who committed an offense against a minor and/or
    15  who have been assigned a designation pursuant to this article,  provided
    16  that such restrictions:
    17    (a)  do  not  require  a sex offender to live beyond one thousand feet
    18  from public, private and charter schools  for  all  level  three  regis-
    19  trants,  for  registrants  who committed an offense against a minor, and
    20  for registrants who have been assigned a designation  pursuant  to  this
    21  article;
    22    (b)  do  not require a sex offender to live beyond a quarter mile from
    23  the workplace and residence of any registrant's victim or victims; and
    24    (c) do not require a sex offender who caused the death of his  or  her
    25  victim  to  live  beyond  a quarter mile from the prior residence of the
    26  deceased victim, if the spouse,  child,  step  child,  sibling,  parent,
    27  grandparent  or  grandchild  of  the  victim continues to reside at that
    28  residence.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14752-02-8
        A. 9991                             2
     1    § 2. Severability clause. If any clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivi-
     2  sion, section or part of this act shall be  adjudged  by  any  court  of
     3  competent  jurisdiction  to  be invalid, such judgment shall not affect,
     4  impair, or invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall  be  confined  in
     5  its  operation  to the clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivision, section
     6  or part thereof directly involved in the controversy in which such judg-
     7  ment shall have been rendered. It is hereby declared to be the intent of
     8  the legislature that this act would  have  been  enacted  even  if  such
     9  invalid provisions had not been included herein.
    10    §  3.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
    11  have become a law and shall apply to all  sex  offenders  registered  or
    12  required  to  register  immediately  prior to the effective date of this
    13  act, or who are required to register on or after such date.