Senate Bill S3627

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Prohibits any sex offender from residing within a quarter mile of any school, playground, park or building in which child day care is provided

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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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2015-S3627 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A9276
Current Committee:
Assembly Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§168-b & 168-t, rel §168-w to be §168-x, add §168-w, Cor L; amd §259-c, Exec L; amd §65.10, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A8670
2013-2014: S5680, A3419
2017-2018: S248, A1765
2019-2020: S261, A1933
2021-2022: S3489, A5763
2023-2024: S787, A2012

2015-S3627 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits any sex offender from residing within a quarter mile of any school, playground, park or building in which child day care is provided.

2015-S3627 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2015-S3627 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  3627

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            February 13, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  ORTT  --  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, the executive law and the penal law,
  in  relation to prohibiting sex offenders from living within a quarter
  mile of any school, park, playground or building in  which  child  day
  care is provided

  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 13 to read as follows:
  13.  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

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD02118-01-5

              

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