S06778 Summary:

BILL NOS06778A
 
SAME ASSAME AS UNI. A09025-A
 
SPONSORBALL
 
COSPNSRAVELLA, BONACIC, DILAN, GOLDEN, LARKIN, MAZIARZ, O'BRIEN, RANZENHOFER, SEWARD
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Rel S168-w to be S168-x, add S168-w, Cor L
 
Relates to sex offender residence limitation; restricts level two and three sex offenders from residing within 1,500 feet of their victims.
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S06778 Actions:

BILL NOS06778A
 
03/10/2014REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION
05/07/2014AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION
05/07/2014PRINT NUMBER 6778A
05/14/20141ST REPORT CAL.775
05/19/20142ND REPORT CAL.
05/20/2014ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
06/10/2014PASSED SENATE
06/10/2014DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
06/10/2014referred to correction
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S06778 Floor Votes:

There are no votes for this bill in this legislative session.
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S06778 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
            S. 6778--A                                            A. 9025--A
 
                SENATE - ASSEMBLY
 
                                     March 10, 2014
                                       ___________
 
        IN  SENATE  -- Introduced by Sens. BALL, AVELLA, BONACIC, DILAN, GOLDEN,
          LARKIN, MAZIARZ, RANZENHOFER, SEWARD -- read twice and ordered  print-
          ed,  and  when  printed  to  be  committed  to  the Committee on Crime
          Victims, Crime and Correction -- committee discharged,  bill  amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
 

        IN  ASSEMBLY -- Introduced by M. of A. BRAUNSTEIN, SALADINO, SIMANOWITZ,
          MOSLEY,  CRESPO,  RIVERA,  ZEBROWSKI,  OTIS,  CAMARA,  FAHY,  SKOUFIS,
          GUNTHER,  SCHIMMINGER, KEARNS, GALEF -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
          HIKIND -- read once and referred to the  Committee  on  Correction  --
          committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
          recommitted to said committee
 
        AN ACT to amend the correction  law,  in  relation  to  restricting  sex
          offenders from residing near the residence of their victim
 
          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. Level two and level three sex offender residence limitation;
     5  penalty. 1. It shall be unlawful for any level two or  level  three  sex
     6  offender  to  knowingly  reside within fifteen hundred feet of the resi-
     7  dence of a victim of his or her sex offense or sexually violent offense.
     8    2. The residence prohibition established by subdivision  one  of  this
     9  section shall remain in effect for as long as the offender is classified
    10  as a level two or three sex offender.
    11    3.  In any prosecution pursuant to this section, it shall be an affir-
    12  mative defense that, after  the  sex  offender's  conviction  of  a  sex
    13  offense  or  sexually violent offense, the victim of such offense estab-

    14  lished a residence within fifteen hundred feet  of  the  sex  offender's
    15  residence.
    16    4. No provision of this section shall be deemed to require the disclo-
    17  sure or notification of the address of any victim to a sex offender.
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14163-05-4

        S. 6778--A                          2                         A. 9025--A
 
     1    5.  A  sex  offender who violates the provisions of subdivision one of
     2  this section shall be guilty of a class E felony.
     3    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
     4  it shall have become a law.
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