Bill Text: NY S06778 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to sex offender residence limitation; restricts level two and three sex offenders from residing within 1,500 feet of their victims.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 7-3)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-06-10 - referred to correction [S06778 Detail]

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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           S. 6778                                                  A. 9025
                             S E N A T E - A S S E M B L Y
                                    March 10, 2014
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       IN  SENATE -- Introduced by Sen. BALL -- read twice and ordered printed,
         and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Crime  Victims,
         Crime and Correction
       IN  ASSEMBLY -- Introduced by M. of A. BRAUNSTEIN, SALADINO -- read once
         and referred to the Committee on Correction
       AN ACT to amend the correction  law,  in  relation  to  restricting  sex
         offenders from residing near the residence of their victim
         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. LEVEL TWO AND LEVEL THREE SEX OFFENDER RESIDENCE LIMITATION;
    5  PENALTY. 1. IT SHALL BE UNLAWFUL FOR ANY LEVEL TWO OR  LEVEL  THREE  SEX
    6  OFFENDER  TO  RESIDE  WITHIN  FIFTEEN HUNDRED FEET OF THE RESIDENCE OF A
    7  VICTIM OF THEIR ABUSE.
    8    2. THE RESIDENCE PROHIBITION ESTABLISHED BY SUBDIVISION  ONE  OF  THIS
    9  SECTION SHALL REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR AS LONG AS THE OFFENDER IS CLASSIFIED
   10  AS A LEVEL TWO OR THREE SEX OFFENDER.
   11    3.  A  SEX  OFFENDER WHO VIOLATES THE PROVISIONS OF SUBDIVISION ONE OF
   12  THIS SECTION SHALL BE GUILTY OF A CLASS E FELONY.
   13    S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
   14  it shall have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD14163-03-4