Bill Text: NY S05570 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits individuals designated as level three sex offenders from being paroled to residences that are within one thousand feet from a school.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION [S05570 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S05570-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5570
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       May 7, 2019
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        Introduced  by Sen. MARTINEZ -- 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 executive law, in relation to prohibiting individ-
          uals designated as level three sex offenders  from  being  paroled  to
          residences that are within one thousand feet from a school
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 14 of section 259-c of the  executive  law,  as
     2  amended by section 38-b of subpart A of part C of chapter 62 of the laws
     3  of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
     4    14.  notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, where
     5  a person serving a sentence  for  an  offense  defined  in  article  one
     6  hundred  thirty,  one  hundred thirty-five or two hundred sixty-three of
     7  the penal law or section 255.25, 255.26 or 255.27 of the penal  law  and
     8  the  victim of such offense was under the age of eighteen at the time of
     9  such offense or [such] where a person has been designated a level  three
    10  sex  offender  pursuant to subdivision six of section one hundred sixty-
    11  eight-l of the correction law, is released on  parole  or  conditionally
    12  released  pursuant  to subdivision one or two of this section, the board
    13  shall require, as a mandatory  condition  of  such  release,  that  such
    14  sentenced  offender  shall  refrain from knowingly entering into or upon
    15  any school grounds, as that term is defined in subdivision  fourteen  of
    16  section  220.00  of  the penal law, or any other facility or institution
    17  primarily used for the care or treatment of persons  under  the  age  of
    18  eighteen while one or more of such persons under the age of eighteen are
    19  present, provided however, that when such sentenced offender is a regis-
    20  tered student or participant or an employee of such facility or institu-
    21  tion  or entity contracting therewith or has a family member enrolled in
    22  such facility or institution, such  sentenced  offender  may,  with  the
    23  written  authorization  of his or her parole officer and the superinten-
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11132-01-9
        S. 5570                             2
     1  dent or chief administrator of such facility,  institution  or  grounds,
     2  enter  such  facility,  institution or upon such grounds for the limited
     3  purposes authorized by the parole officer and  superintendent  or  chief
     4  officer.   Nothing in this subdivision shall be construed as restricting
     5  any lawful  condition  of  supervision  that  may  be  imposed  on  such
     6  sentenced offender.
     7    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.