Senate Bill S1983

2019-2020 Legislative Session

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

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Crime Victims, Crime And Correction Committee


  • 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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2019-S1983 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Crime Victims, Crime And 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:
2015-2016: S1520
2017-2018: S1787
2021-2022: S5871
2023-2024: S5580

2019-S1983 (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 facility where pre-kindergarten or kindergarten instruction is provided.

2019-S1983 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S1983 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1983
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 18, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  SAVINO -- 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 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 ANY FACILITY  OR
 INSTITUTION   WHERE  PRE-KINDERGARTEN  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 offender is a registered student or participant
 or  an  employee  of  such facility or institution or entity contracting
              

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