S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 2481 2011-2012 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E January 21, 2011 ___________ 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. LBD07726-01-1