Assembly Bill A8041

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to prohibiting certain sex offenders from entering any school grounds

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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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2017-A8041 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Ren §168-w to be §168-x, add §168-w, Cor L; amd §65.10, Pen L; amd §259-c, Exec L; amd §2801, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A1451
2021-2022: A2407

2017-A8041 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to prohibiting certain sex offenders from entering any school grounds; requires school districts to adopt procedures for the admission of visitors to a school building including to ensure such visitors are not registered as level two or three sex offenders.

2017-A8041 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8041
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 25, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Correction
 
 AN ACT to amend the correction law, the penal law and the executive law,
   in relation to prohibiting certain sex  offenders  from  entering  any
   school grounds; and to amend the education law, in relation to requir-
   ing school districts to adopt procedures for the admission of visitors
   to a school building
 
   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  renumbered  section  168-x  and  a  new
 section 168-w is added to read as follows:
   §  168-W. PROHIBITION ON ENTERING ANY SCHOOL GROUNDS.  NOTWITHSTANDING
 ANY OTHER LAW, RULE OR REGULATION TO THE CONTRARY, IT SHALL BE  UNLAWFUL
 FOR  ANY LEVEL TWO OR THREE SEX OFFENDER TO KNOWINGLY ENTER INTO OR UPON
 ANY SCHOOL GROUNDS, AS THAT TERM IS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION  FOURTEEN  OF
 SECTION 220.00 OF THE PENAL LAW. THE PROHIBITION IMPOSED BY THIS SECTION
 SHALL  REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR AS LONG AS A PERSON IS CLASSIFIED AS A LEVEL
 TWO OR THREE SEX OFFENDER.
   § 2. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 4-a of section 65.10  of  the  penal
 law, as amended by chapter 67 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as
 follows:
   (a)  When  imposing  a  sentence of probation or conditional discharge
 upon a person convicted of an offense defined  in  article  one  hundred
 thirty, two hundred thirty-five or two hundred sixty-three of this chap-
 ter, or section 255.25, 255.26 or 255.27 of this chapter, 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  TWO  OR  three  sex
 offender  pursuant to subdivision six of section 168-l of the correction
 law, the court shall require, as a mandatory condition of such sentence,
 that such sentenced offender shall refrain from knowingly entering  into
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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