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Assembly Bill A11455

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Prohibits convicted sex offenders from entering children's reading rooms at public libraries

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2009-A11455 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Rel §168-w to be §168-y, add §§168-w & 168-x, amd §168-t, Cor L

2009-A11455 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits convicted sex offenders from entering children's reading rooms at public libraries and establishes a pilot program for facial recognition software for use in libraries.

2009-A11455 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  11455

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              June 15, 2010
                               ___________

Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Benjamin) --
  read once and referred to the Committee on Correction

AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to prohibiting convicted
  sex  offenders  from  entering children's reading rooms and from being
  employed at public libraries

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

  Section 1. Section 168-w of the correction law, as relettered by chap-
ter  604  of  the  laws of 2005, is relettered section 168-y and two new
sections 168-w and 168-x are added to read as follows:
  S 168-W. PROHIBITION OF ENTERING CHILDREN'S READING  ROOMS  IN  PUBLIC
LIBRARIES.  NO PERSON REQUIRED TO MAINTAIN REGISTRATION UNDER THIS ARTI-
CLE  SHALL  ENTER A ROOM DESIGNATED EXCLUSIVELY FOR USE BY CHILDREN IN A
PUBLIC LIBRARY.
  S 168-X. PROHIBITION OF EMPLOYMENT  IN  PUBLIC  LIBRARIES.  NO  PERSON
REQUIRED  TO  MAINTAIN  REGISTRATION  UNDER  THIS  ARTICLE (SEX OFFENDER
REGISTRATION ACT) SHALL BE EMPLOYED BY A PUBLIC  LIBRARY.
  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] D felony upon conviction for the
first offense, and upon conviction for a second  or  subsequent  offense
shall  be  guilty of a class [D] C felony. Any sex offender who violates
the provisions of section  one  hundred  sixty-eight-v  OR  SECTION  ONE
HUNDRED  SIXTY-EIGHT-W  of  this  article  shall be guilty of a class [A
misdemeanor] E FELONY upon conviction for the first  offense,  and  upon
conviction for a second or subsequent offense shall be guilty of a class
[D]  C  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.
  S 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
it shall have become a law.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

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