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Assembly Bill A3621

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Provides for employment limits for level three sex offenders to outside a five hundred feet radius of a daycare or school

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2019-A3621 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Ren §168-w to be §168-x, add §168-w, Cor L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A822
2011-2012: A1752
2013-2014: A1499
2015-2016: A1318
2017-2018: A540

2019-A3621 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for employment limits for level three sex offenders to outside a five hundred foot radius of a daycare or school; penalty for offender is a class E felony; prohibition remains as long as offender is level three.

2019-A3621 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3621
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 29, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of A. GUNTHER, GALEF, CRESPO, ZEBROWSKI, OTIS, RAIA,
   PALUMBO, STEC, WALSH -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ABBATE, CROUCH,
   MOSLEY, PERRY, RIVERA -- read once and referred to  the  Committee  on
   Correction
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend the correction law, in relation to employment limita-
   tions for level three sex offenders

   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. LEVEL THREE SEX OFFENDERS EMPLOYMENT LIMITATION; PENALTY.  1.
 IT  SHALL  BE  UNLAWFUL  FOR ANY LEVEL THREE SEX OFFENDER TO WORK WITHIN
 FIVE HUNDRED FEET OF  ANY  PUBLIC  OR  PRIVATE  NURSERY,  ELEMENTARY  OR
 SECONDARY SCHOOL OR LICENSED DAY CARE FACILITY.
   2.  NO  EMPLOYER  SHALL KNOWINGLY PERMIT OR CAUSE THE PLACEMENT OF ANY
 LEVEL THREE SEX OFFENDER AT ANY WORK LOCATION WITHIN FIVE  HUNDRED  FEET
 OF  ANY  PUBLIC  OR  PRIVATE  NURSERY, ELEMENTARY OR SECONDARY SCHOOL OR
 LICENSED DAY CARE FACILITY.
   3. THE EMPLOYMENT PROHIBITION ESTABLISHED BY SUBDIVISIONS ONE AND  TWO
 OF  THIS  SECTION  SHALL REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR AS LONG AS THE OFFENDER IS
 CLASSIFIED AS A LEVEL THREE SEX OFFENDER.
   4. A SEX OFFENDER WHO KNOWINGLY VIOLATES THE PROVISIONS OF SUBDIVISION
 ONE OF THIS SECTION SHALL BE GUILTY OF A CLASS E FELONY.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
 ing the date upon which it shall have become a law.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00478-01-9

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