Senate Bill S436

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Prohibits sex offenders whose victim was a child and level 3 sex offenders from knowingly being within 1,000 feet of a child care provider, preschool or any pre-kindergarten or kindergarten

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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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2023-S436 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A3692
Current Committee:
Senate Codes
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §259-c, Exec L; amd §65.10, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S8759, A10731
2019-2020: S1172, A2472
2021-2022: S4891, A5938

2023-S436 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits a sex offender whose victim was a child and level 3 sex offenders from knowingly being within 1,000 feet of a child care provider, preschool or any facility where pre-kindergarten or kindergarten instruction is provided.

2023-S436 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S436 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    436
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 4, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sens. SKOUFIS, MATTERA, TEDISCO -- read twice and ordered
   printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the executive law and the  penal  law,  in  relation  to
   prohibiting certain convicted sex offenders from knowingly being with-
   in 1,000 feet of a child care provider, a preschool or any place where
   pre-kindergarten or kindergarten instruction is provided
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 14 of section 259-c of the  executive  law,  as
 amended by section 38-b of subpart A of part C of chapter 62 of the laws
 of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
   14.  notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, where
 a person serving a sentence  for  an  offense  defined  in  article  one
 hundred  thirty,  one  hundred thirty-five or two hundred sixty-three of
 the penal law or section 255.25, 255.26 or 255.27 of the penal  law  and
 the  victim of such offense was under the age of eighteen at the time of
 such offense or such person has been designated a level three sex offen-
 der pursuant to subdivision six of section one hundred sixty-eight-l  of
 the  correction  law,  is  released  on parole or conditionally released
 pursuant to subdivision one or two of  this  section,  the  board  shall
 require,  as  a mandatory condition of such release, that such sentenced
 offender shall refrain from knowingly entering into or upon  any  school
 grounds,  as  that  term  is  defined in subdivision fourteen of section
 220.00 of the penal law, OR WITHIN ONE THOUSAND FEET  OF  A  CHILD  CARE
 PROVIDER,  A PRESCHOOL, OR ANY FACILITY OR INSTITUTION WHERE PRE-KINDER-
 GARTEN OR KINDERGARTEN INSTRUCTION IS PROVIDED, or any other facility or
 institution primarily used for the care or treatment  of  persons  under
 the  age  of eighteen while one or more of such persons under the age of
 eighteen are present, provided however, that when such sentenced  offen-
 der is a registered student or participant or an employee of such facil-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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