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Assembly Bill A3259

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Directs the commissioner of corrections and community supervision to establish standards for the distance from school grounds of the residence of certain sex offenders on probation or parole

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2017-A3259 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1271
Current Committee:
Assembly Correction
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Add 259-f, Exec L; amd §220.00, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: A7661, S4890
2019-2020: A3195

2017-A3259 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs the commissioner of corrections and community supervision to establish standards for the distance certain sex offenders on probation or parole, or conditionally released, must reside from school grounds.

2017-A3259 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3259
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 27, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. ORTIZ -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Correction
 
 AN ACT to amend the executive law and the penal law, in relation to  the
   requirement  for certain sex offenders who are on probation or parole,
   or conditionally released to  reside  certain  distances  from  school
   grounds

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section  259-f
 to read as follows:
   §  259-F.  CERTAIN  SEX OFFENDERS; RESIDENCE NEAR SCHOOL GROUNDS.  THE
 COMMISSIONER, IN CONSULTATION WITH THE BOARD, DIRECTOR OF PROBATION  AND
 CORRECTIONAL ALTERNATIVES AND COMMISSIONER OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE SERVICES,
 SHALL  ESTABLISH  BY RULE A UNIFORM STANDARD FOR MEASURING AND ENFORCING
 THE DISTANCE RESTRICTIONS FOR PROPOSED  RESIDENCES  FOR  REGISTERED  SEX
 OFFENDERS  WHO  ARE  SUBJECT TO THE PROVISION OF SUBDIVISION FOURTEEN OF
 SECTION TWO HUNDRED FIFTY-NINE-C OF THIS ARTICLE OR  SUBDIVISION  FOUR-A
 OF  SECTION 65.10 OF THE PENAL LAW. SUCH STANDARD SHALL INCLUDE SPECIFIC
 REQUIREMENTS AND THE METHODOLOGY FOR THE  ENFORCEMENT  OF  THE  DISTANCE
 RESTRICTIONS  AND  SUCH STANDARD SHALL BE POSTED ON THE INTERNET WEBSITE
 OF THE DIVISION OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE SERVICES.
   § 2. Subdivision 14 of section 220.00 of the penal law, as amended  by
 chapter 292 of the laws of 1994, is amended to read as follows:
   14. "School grounds" means (a) in or on or within any building, struc-
 ture,  athletic  playing  field, playground or land contained within the
 real property boundary line of a public or private elementary,  parochi-
 al,  intermediate,  junior  high, vocational, or high school, or (b) any
 area accessible to the public located within one thousand  feet  of  the
 real  property  boundary  line  comprising any such school or any parked
 automobile or other parked vehicle located within one thousand  feet  of
 the  real  property  boundary  line  comprising any such school. For the
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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