S00088 Summary:

BILL NOS00088
 
SAME ASSAME AS A05690
 
SPONSORSAMPSON
 
COSPNSRADDABBO, AVELLA
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Rel S168-w to be S168-x, add S168-w, Cor L; amd S65.10, Pen L
 
Prohibits persons required to maintain registration under the sex offender registration act from entering into a children's section of a public library.
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S00088 Actions:

BILL NOS00088
 
01/09/2013REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION
01/08/2014REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION
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S00088 Floor Votes:

There are no votes for this bill in this legislative session.
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S00088 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                           88
 
                               2013-2014 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                       (Prefiled)
 
                                     January 9, 2013
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sen. SAMPSON -- 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 correction law and the penal law, in relation to

          prohibiting persons required to maintain registration  under  the  sex
          offender registration act from entering into a children's section of a
          public library
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Section 168-w of the correction law, as relettered by chap-
     2  ter 604 of the laws of 2005, is  relettered  section  168-x  and  a  new
     3  section 168-w is added to read as follows:
     4    §  168-w.  Prohibition  from entering a children's section of a public
     5  library. Any person required to maintain registration under this article
     6  (sex offender registration act) shall refrain from entering into or upon
     7  any area or room in a public library designated as a children's section.

     8    § 2. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 4-a of section 65.10  of  the  penal
     9  law, as amended by chapter 67 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as
    10  follows:
    11    (a)  When  imposing  a  sentence of probation or conditional discharge
    12  upon a person convicted of an offense defined  in  article  one  hundred
    13  thirty, two hundred thirty-five or two hundred sixty-three of this chap-
    14  ter, or section 255.25, 255.26 or 255.27 of this chapter, and the victim
    15  of  such  offense  was  under  the  age  of eighteen at the time of such
    16  offense or such person has been designated a level  three  sex  offender
    17  pursuant  to subdivision six of section 168-l of the correction law, the
    18  court shall require, as a mandatory condition  of  such  sentence,  that
    19  such  sentenced  offender  shall refrain from knowingly entering into or
    20  upon any school grounds, as that term is defined in subdivision fourteen

    21  of section 220.00 of this chapter, or any  area  or  room  of  a  public
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00233-01-3

        S. 88                               2
 
     1  library  designated  as  a  children's section, or any other facility or
     2  institution primarily used for the care or treatment  of  persons  under
     3  the  age  of eighteen while one or more of such persons under the age of
     4  eighteen  are present, provided however, that when such sentenced offen-
     5  der is a registered student or participant or an employee of such facil-
     6  ity or institution or entity  contracting  therewith  or  has  a  family

     7  member enrolled in such facility or institution, such sentenced offender
     8  may,  with  the written authorization of his or her probation officer or
     9  the court and the superintendent or chief administrator of such  facili-
    10  ty,  institution  or  grounds,  enter such facility, institution or upon
    11  such grounds for the limited purposes authorized by the probation  offi-
    12  cer  or  the  court and superintendent or chief officer. Nothing in this
    13  subdivision shall be construed as restricting any  lawful  condition  of
    14  supervision that may be imposed on such sentenced offender.
    15    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
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