Senate Bill S8759

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Prohibits sex offenders whose victim was a child and level 3 sex offenders from knowingly being within 1,000 feet of a child care provider, preschool or any pre-kindergarten or kindergarten

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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-S8759 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A10731
Current Committee:
Assembly Correction
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §259-c, add §259-f, Exec L; amd §65.10, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S1172, A2472
2021-2022: S4891, A5938
2023-2024: S436, A3692

2017-S8759 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits a sex offender whose victim was a child and level 3 sex offenders from knowingly being within 1,000 feet of a child care provider, preschool or any facility where pre-kindergarten or kindergarten instruction is provided.

2017-S8759 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S8759 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8759
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 14, 2018
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. AMEDORE -- 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  executive law and the penal law, in relation to
   prohibiting certain convicted sex offenders from knowingly being with-
   in 1,000 feet of a child care provider, a preschool or any place where
   pre-kindergarten or kindergarten instruction is provided; and to amend
   the executive law,  in  relation  to  directing  the  commissioner  of
   corrections  and community supervision to apply for quarterly listings
   of all elementary and secondary schools in the state
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  14 of section 259-c of the executive law, as
 amended by section 38-b of subpart A of part C of chapter 62 of the laws
 of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
   14. notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary,  where
 a  person  serving  a  sentence  for  an  offense defined in article one
 hundred thirty, one hundred thirty-five or two  hundred  sixty-three  of
 the  penal  law or section 255.25, 255.26 or 255.27 of the penal law 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 three sex offen-
 der  pursuant to subdivision six of section one hundred sixty-eight-l of
 the correction law, is released  on  parole  or  conditionally  released
 pursuant  to  subdivision  one  or  two of this section, the board shall
 require, as a mandatory condition of such release, that  such  sentenced
 offender  shall  refrain from knowingly entering into or upon any school
 grounds, as that term is defined  in  subdivision  fourteen  of  section
 220.00  of  the  penal  law, OR WITHIN ONE THOUSAND FEET OF A CHILD CARE
 PROVIDER, A PRESCHOOL, OR ANY FACILITY OR INSTITUTION WHERE  PRE-KINDER-
 GARTEN OR KINDERGARTEN INSTRUCTION IS PROVIDED, or any other facility or
 institution  primarily  used  for the care or treatment of persons under
 the age of eighteen while one or more of such persons under the  age  of
 eighteen  are present, provided however, that when such sentenced offen-
 der is a registered student or participant or an employee of such facil-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

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