Bill Text: NY S03925 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes municipalities to establish residency restrictions for sex offenders required to register with the division of criminal justice services.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 9-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-06-14 - referred to correction [S03925 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S03925-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         3925
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   February 20, 2015
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       Introduced  by  Sens.  VENDITTO, FUNKE, MURPHY -- read twice and ordered
         printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
       AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to  authorizing  munici-
         palities to establish residency restrictions for sex offenders
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Legislative findings. It is the sense  of  the  legislature
    2  that  determinations  regarding  restrictions  upon the residence of sex
    3  offenders who are required to register pursuant  to  the  provisions  of
    4  article  6-C  of  the correction law should be made by the local munici-
    5  pality in which such offenders reside  since  municipalities  are  in  a
    6  better  position  than  the state, after taking into consideration local
    7  conditions and after determining what  entities  with  vulnerable  popu-
    8  lations  would require protection from registered sex offenders, to make
    9  such determinations.
   10    S 2. Section 168-w of the correction law, as relettered by chapter 604
   11  of the laws of 2005, is redesignated section 168-x  and  a  new  section
   12  168-w is added to read as follows:
   13    S 168-W. MUNICIPAL RESIDENCY RESTRICTIONS.  ANY MUNICIPALITY MAY ENACT
   14  A  LOCAL  LAW  WHICH  IMPOSES  RESIDENCY RESTRICTIONS UPON SEX OFFENDERS
   15  REQUIRED TO REGISTER PURSUANT TO THIS ARTICLE, PROVIDED THAT SUCH  RESI-
   16  DENCY  RESTRICTIONS  ARE  NO  LESS RESTRICTIVE THAN THE REQUIREMENTS SET
   17  FORTH IN PARAGRAPH (A) OF SUBDIVISION FOUR-A OF  SECTION  65.10  OF  THE
   18  PENAL  LAW  AND SUBDIVISION FOURTEEN OF SECTION TWO HUNDRED FIFTY-NINE-C
   19  OF THE EXECUTIVE LAW.
   20    S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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