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Assembly Bill A11357

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to the placement of registered sex offenders by the office for people with developmental disabilities

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2017-A11357 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S9169
Current Committee:
Assembly Mental Health
Law Section:
Mental Hygiene Law
Laws Affected:
Add §13.38-a, Ment Hyg L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A1477, S2028
2021-2022: S5538

2017-A11357 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the placement of registered sex offenders by the office for people with developmental disabilities; provides that registered sex offenders with developmental disabilities shall be placed only in residential placements specifically designated for registered sex offenders by the office.

2017-A11357 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   11357
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                            September 19, 2018
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Woerner) --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Mental Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law,  in  relation  to  placement  of
   registered  sex  offenders by the office for people with developmental
   disabilities
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  The mental hygiene law is amended by adding a new section
 13.38-a to read as follows:
 § 13.38-A PLACEMENT OF REGISTERED SEX OFFENDERS.
   1. THE OFFICE SHALL  DESIGNATE  SPECIFIC  RESIDENTIAL  PLACEMENTS  FOR
 INDIVIDUALS  WITH  DEVELOPMENTAL  DISABILITIES  WHO  ARE  REGISTERED SEX
 OFFENDERS PURSUANT TO ARTICLE SIX-C OF THE CORRECTION  LAW.  THE  OFFICE
 SHALL  DETERMINE HOW MANY RESIDENTIAL PLACEMENTS FOR INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE
 REGISTERED SEX OFFENDERS ARE NECESSARY TO PROVIDE ADEQUATE  SERVICES  TO
 SUCH  INDIVIDUALS AND SHALL ENSURE THAT THE LOCATION OF SUCH RESIDENTIAL
 PLACEMENTS ARE GEOGRAPHICALLY DISBURSED THROUGHOUT THE STATE.
   2. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY INCONSISTENT PROVISION OF LAW, THE OFFICE SHALL
 NOT PERMIT OR CAUSE THE PLACEMENT OF ANY REGISTERED SEX OFFENDER IN  ANY
 RESIDENTIAL  PLACEMENT  OTHER  THAN  SPECIFICALLY DESIGNATED RESIDENTIAL
 PLACEMENTS FOR REGISTERED SEX OFFENDERS AS PROVIDED IN  SUBDIVISION  ONE
 OF THIS SECTION.
   3.  THE  OFFICE  SHALL  DEVELOP  A STAFFING MODEL FOR SUCH RESIDENTIAL
 PLACEMENTS FOR REGISTERED SEX OFFENDERS WHICH SHALL INCLUDE,  BUT  SHALL
 NOT  BE  LIMITED TO, AN ADEQUATE STAFF TO RESIDENT RATIO AND APPROPRIATE
 TRAINING, TO ENSURE THE SAFETY AND WELL-BEING OF THE RESIDENTS.
   4. TRANSITIONAL CARE PROVIDED TO SUCH REGISTERED  SEX  OFFENDERS  WITH
 DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES SHALL INCLUDE OUTREACH BY THE OFFICE TO LOCAL
 LAW ENFORCEMENT.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it shall have become a law.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD16547-01-8

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