Bill Text: NY S06043 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 6043 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to municipal residency restrictions; sets permissible maximum distance from a school grounds at 1,500 feet.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION [S06043 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S06043-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6043
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                      May 10, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen. KENNEDY -- 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 municipal residency
          restrictions
          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, subject to state set minimum
     6  distance and a permissible maximum distance allowing state interests  to
     7  determine housing for registered sex offenders.  Municipalities are in a
     8  better  position  than  the  state  to determine whether the restrictive
     9  residential distance from a school grounds shall remain at one  thousand
    10  feet, or shall be expanded to up to one thousand five hundred feet.
    11    § 2. Section 168-w of the correction law, as relettered by chapter 604
    12  of  the  laws of 2005, is numbered section 168-x and a new section 168-w
    13  is added to read as follows:
    14    § 168-w.  Municipal residency restrictions. Any municipality may enact
    15  a local law which imposes  residency  restrictions  upon  sex  offenders
    16  required  to register pursuant to this article, provided that such resi-
    17  dency restrictions are no less restrictive  than  the  requirements  set
    18  forth  in  paragraph  (a)  of subdivision four-a of section 65.10 of the
    19  penal law and subdivision fourteen of section two  hundred  fifty-nine-c
    20  of  the  executive law, and provided that such residency restrictions do
    21  not exceed one thousand five hundred feet from a school grounds.
    22    § 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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