Bill Text: NY S08075 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 8075 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to residency requirements for sex offenders; prohibits residing within one thousand feet of school grounds.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-03-26 - REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION [S08075 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S08075-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8075
                    IN SENATE
                                     March 26, 2018
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  AVELLA -- 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 residency require-
          ments for sex offenders
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. Section 168-b of the correction law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 13 to read as follows:
     3    13. The division, when acknowledging initial registration  and  there-
     4  after  in annual correspondence, shall advise each sex offender, to whom
     5  the residency restriction in section one hundred sixty-eight-w  of  this
     6  article  applies,  concerning  the  terms  and specific duration of such
     7  restriction. The division shall regularly monitor compliance  with  such
     8  restriction.
     9    § 2. Section 168-t of the correction law, as amended by chapter 373 of
    10  the laws of 2007, is amended to read as follows:
    11    §  168-t.  Penalty. Any sex offender required to register or to verify
    12  pursuant to the provisions of this article  who  fails  to  register  or
    13  verify  in  the  manner and within the time periods provided for in this
    14  article shall be guilty of a class E  felony  upon  conviction  for  the
    15  first  offense,  and  upon conviction for a second or subsequent offense
    16  shall be guilty of a class D felony. Any sex offender who  violates  the
    17  provisions  of  section one hundred sixty-eight-v or section one hundred
    18  sixty-eight-w of this article shall be guilty of a class  A  misdemeanor
    19  upon  conviction for the first offense, and upon conviction for a second
    20  or subsequent offense shall be guilty of a  class  D  felony.  Any  such
    21  failure  to  register  or verify may also be the basis for revocation of
    22  parole pursuant to section two hundred fifty-nine-i of the executive law
    23  or the basis for  revocation  of  probation  pursuant  to  article  four
    24  hundred ten of the criminal procedure law.
    25    § 3. Section 168-w of the correction law, as relettered by chapter 604
    26  of the laws of 2005, is relettered section 168-x and a new section 168-w
    27  is added to read as follows:
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        S. 8075                             2
     1    §  168-w.  Residency  requirements  for sex offenders. No sex offender
     2  required to register under this article shall reside in a residence that
     3  is within one thousand feet of any school grounds. For purposes of  this
     4  section,  "school  grounds"  shall  have  the same meaning as defined in
     5  subdivision fourteen of section 220.00 of the penal law.
     6    §  4.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
     7  have become a law.