Bill Text: NY S02481 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits a sex offender from being granted by a court, physical or legal custody of, or unsupervised visitation with a child.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-06-18 - referred to correction [S02481 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-S02481-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         2481
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   January 21, 2011
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       Introduced  by Sen. FLANAGAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Crime Victims,  Crime  and
         Correction
       AN  ACT  to amend the correction law, in relation to custody and visita-
         tion rights of a sex offender
         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 relettered section 168-x and a new
    3  section 168-w is added to read as follows:
    4    S 168-W. PROHIBITION OF CUSTODY AND VISITATION RIGHTS. ANY SEX  OFFEN-
    5  DER  SHALL BE PROHIBITED FROM BEING GRANTED BY A COURT PHYSICAL OR LEGAL
    6  CUSTODY OF, OR UNSUPERVISED VISITATION WITH, A CHILD.
    7    S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
    8  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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