Bill Text: NY S02959 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 2959 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Restricts a registered sex offender from residing within 1000 feet of a school.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-01-08 - REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION [S02959 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S02959-Amended.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        2959--A
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   January 25, 2013
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  GOLDEN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Crime Victims,  Crime  and
         Correction -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
         amended and recommitted to said committee
       AN  ACT  to  amend the correction law, in relation to the residence 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-c of the correction law is amended by adding a
    2  new subdivision 2-a to read as follows:
    3    2-A. NO SEX OFFENDER RELEASED OR DISCHARGED FROM A CORRECTIONAL FACIL-
    4  ITY, HOSPITAL OR LOCAL CORRECTIONAL  FACILITY  OR  PLACED  ON  PROBATION
    5  SHALL  RESIDE WITHIN ONE THOUSAND FEET OF A BUILDING USED EXCLUSIVELY AS
    6  A SCHOOL, THE MEASUREMENTS TO BE TAKEN IN STRAIGHT LINES FROM THE CENTER
    7  OF  THE NEAREST ENTRANCE OF THE RESIDENCE TO THE CENTER OF  THE  NEAREST
    8  ENTRANCE OF SUCH SCHOOL.
    9    S  2.  Section  168-f of the correction law is amended by adding a new
   10  subdivision 4-a to read as follows:
   11    4-A. A SEX OFFENDER, AFTER HIS OR HER  DISCHARGE,  PAROLE  OR  RELEASE
   12  FROM  ANY  CORRECTIONAL  FACILITY, HOSPITAL OR LOCAL FACILITY OR WHO WAS
   13  PLACED ON PROBATION AND WHO HAS ESTABLISHED A RESIDENCE SHALL NOT CHANGE
   14  SAID RESIDENCE SO AS TO RESIDE WITHIN ONE THOUSAND FEET  OF  A  BUILDING
   15  USED  EXCLUSIVELY  AS A SCHOOL, THE MEASUREMENTS TO BE TAKEN IN STRAIGHT
   16  LINES FROM THE CENTER OF THE NEAREST ENTRANCE OF THE  RESIDENCE  TO  THE
   17  CENTER OF THE NEAREST ENTRANCE OF SUCH SCHOOL.
   18    S  3.  Section  168-k of the correction law is amended by adding a new
   19  subdivision 5 to read as follows:
   20    5. A SEX OFFENDER WHO HAS ESTABLISHED RESIDENCE IN THIS STATE PURSUANT
   21  TO THIS SECTION SHALL NOT RESIDE WITHIN ONE THOUSAND FEET OF A  BUILDING
   22  USED  EXCLUSIVELY  AS A SCHOOL, THE MEASUREMENTS TO BE TAKEN IN STRAIGHT
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD04254-02-3
       S. 2959--A                          2
    1  LINES FROM THE CENTER OF THE NEAREST ENTRANCE OF THE  RESIDENCE  TO  THE
    2  CENTER OF THE NEAREST ENTRANCE OF SUCH SCHOOL.
    3    S 4. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
    4  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.