STATE OF NEW YORK
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3114
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 23, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. HELMING -- 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, the mental hygiene law and the
social services law, in relation to restricting sex offenders from
residing in a community residence for the mentally disabled
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 168-c of the correction law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 2-a to read as follows:
3 2-a. No sex offender released or discharged from a correctional facil-
4 ity, hospital or local correctional facility or placed on probation
5 shall reside in a community residence as defined in section 1.03 of the
6 mental hygiene law.
7 § 2. Section 168-f of the correction law is amended by adding a new
8 subdivision 4-a to read as follows:
9 4-a. A sex offender, after their discharge, parole or release from any
10 correctional facility, hospital or local correctional facility or who
11 has been placed on probation and who has established a residence shall
12 not change said residence so as to reside in a community residence
13 facility as defined in section 1.03 of the mental hygiene law.
14 § 3. Section 168-k of the correction law is amended by adding a new
15 subdivision 5 to read as follows:
16 5. A sex offender who has established residence in this state pursuant
17 to this section shall not reside in a community residence as defined in
18 section 1.03 of the mental hygiene law.
19 § 4. Section 41.44 of the mental hygiene law is amended by adding a
20 new subdivision (d-1) to read as follows:
21 (d-1) The commissioner shall deny sex offenders, as defined in section
22 one hundred sixty-eight-a of the correction law, admission to residen-
23 tial care centers for adults.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 § 5. Paragraph 1 of subdivision (a) of section 10.11 of the mental
2 hygiene law, as amended by section 118-e of subpart B of part C of chap-
3 ter 62 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
4 (1) Before ordering the release of a person to a regimen of strict and
5 intensive supervision and treatment pursuant to this article, the court
6 shall order that the department of corrections and community supervision
7 recommend supervision requirements to the court. These supervision
8 requirements, which shall be developed in consultation with the commis-
9 sioner, may include but need not be limited to, electronic monitoring or
10 global positioning satellite tracking for an appropriate period of time,
11 polygraph monitoring, specification of residence or type [or] of resi-
12 dence, prohibition of contact with identified past or potential victims,
13 strict and intensive supervision by a parole officer, and any other
14 lawful and necessary conditions that may be imposed by a court. Recom-
15 mendations regarding residence or type of residence shall not include a
16 community residence as defined in section 1.03 of this chapter. In addi-
17 tion, after consultation with the psychiatrist, psychologist or other
18 professional primarily treating the respondent, the commissioner shall
19 recommend a specific course of treatment. A copy of the recommended
20 requirements for supervision and treatment shall be given to the attor-
21 ney general and the respondent and [his or her] their counsel a reason-
22 able time before the court issues its written order pursuant to this
23 section.
24 § 6. Subdivision 8 of section 20 of the social services law is amended
25 by adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows:
26 (c) Notwithstanding paragraph (b) of this subdivision, local social
27 services officials shall not place any sex offender, as defined in
28 section one hundred sixty-eight-a of the correction law, in a community
29 residence as defined in section 1.03 of the mental hygiene law.
30 § 7. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
31 have become a law.
