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Assembly Bill A160

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Prohibits registered sex offenders from using or being within five hundred feet of any state or municipal-owned park

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2025-A160 (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: A3599
2011-2012: A282
2013-2014: A1993
2015-2016: A1482
2017-2018: A805
2019-2020: A945
2021-2022: A5290
2023-2024: A2404

2025-A160 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits registered sex offenders from using or being within five hundred feet of any state or municipal-owned park.

2025-A160 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    160
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of A. ANGELINO, BENDETT, DeSTEFANO, DiPIETRO, DURSO,
   LEMONDES, McDONOUGH, MIKULIN,  MILLER,  MORINELLO  --  read  once  and
   referred to the Committee on Correction
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  correction  law, in relation to prohibiting sex
   offenders from using state and municipal parks
 
   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 renumbered 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. PROHIBITING USE OF PARKS.  ANY  PERSON  WHO  IS  REQUIRED  TO
 REGISTER  PURSUANT TO THIS ARTICLE IS PROHIBITED FROM ENTERING, BEING IN
 OR BEING LOCATED WITHIN FIVE HUNDRED FEET OF ANY OF THE FOLLOWING  PLAC-
 ES:
   1. STATE PARK.
   2. MUNICIPAL-OWNED PARK.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01148-01-5

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