Assembly Bill A7948

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Provides residency requirements for sex offenders

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2009-A7948 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§168-b & 168-t, ren §168-w to be §168-x, add §168-w, Cor L; amd §259-c, Exec L; amd §65.10, Pen L
Versions Introduced in 2011-2012 Legislative Session:
A1423

2009-A7948 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides residency requirements for sex offenders including criminal sanctions for violations; prohibits sex offenders from residing in a residence that is within one thousand feet of any school building regularly used for instructional purposes.

2009-A7948 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  7948

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             April 28, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M. of A. BALL -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Correction

AN ACT to amend the correction law, the executive law and the penal law,
  in relation to certain residency requirements for sex offenders

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1. Section 168-b of the correction law is amended by adding a
new subdivision 12 to read as follows:
  12. THE DIVISION, WHEN ACKNOWLEDGING INITIAL REGISTRATION  AND  THERE-
AFTER  IN  ANNUAL CORRESPONDENCE, SHALL ADVISE EACH SEX OFFENDER TO WHOM
THE RESIDENCY RESTRICTION IN SECTION ONE HUNDRED SIXTY-EIGHT-W  OF  THIS
ARTICLE  APPLIES,  CONCERNING  THE  TERMS  AND SPECIFIC DURATION OF SUCH
RESTRICTION.
  S 2. Section 168-t of the correction law, as amended by chapter 373 of
the laws of 2007, is amended to read as follows:
  S 168-t. Penalty. Any sex offender required to register or  to  verify
pursuant  to  the  provisions  of  this article who fails to register or
verify in the manner and within the time periods provided  for  in  this
article  shall  be  guilty  of  a class E felony upon conviction for the
first offense, and upon conviction for a second  or  subsequent  offense
shall  be  guilty of a class D felony. Any sex offender who violates the
provisions of section one hundred sixty-eight-v OR  SUBDIVISION  ONE  OF
SECTION  ONE  HUNDRED SIXTY-EIGHT-W of this article shall be guilty of a
class A misdemeanor upon conviction for  the  first  offense,  and  upon
conviction for a second or subsequent offense shall be guilty of a class
D  felony.  Any such failure to register or verify may also be the basis
for revocation of parole pursuant to section two hundred fifty-nine-i of
the executive law or the basis for revocation of probation  pursuant  to
article four hundred ten of the criminal procedure law.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD07465-02-9

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