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Prohibits certain persons convicted of article six-C of the correction law from serving as a trustee, principal, officer, or member of a board of education of any public school in any BOCES, city, union free, common or central school district or any charter school.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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S. 4153 A. 5636
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
SENATE - ASSEMBLY
March 3, 2015
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IN SENATE -- Introduced by Sens. LAVALLE, DeFRANCISCO, GOLDEN, LARKIN,
MARTINS, SEWARD, VENDITTO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Crime Victims, Crime and
Correction
IN ASSEMBLY -- Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once and referred
to the Committee on Correction
AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to prohibiting certain
persons convicted under article six-C of the correction law from serv-
ing as a trustee, principal, officer, or member of a board of educa-
tion of any public school in any BOCES, city, union free, common or
central school district or any charter school
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 of serving as a trustee, principal, officer, or
5 member of a board of education of any public school in any BOCES, city,
6 union free, common or central school district or any charter school. No
7 person required to maintain registration under this article (sex offen-
8 der registration act) shall be a trustee, principal, officer, or member
9 of a board of education of any public school in any BOCES, city, union
10 free, common or central school district or any charter school.
11 § 2. Section 168-t of the correction law, as amended by chapter 373 of
12 the laws of 2007, is amended to read as follows:
13 § 168-t. Penalty. Any sex offender required to register or to verify
14 pursuant to the provisions of this article who fails to register or
15 verify in the manner and within the time periods provided for in this
16 article shall be guilty of a class E felony upon conviction for the
17 first offense, and upon conviction for a second or subsequent offense
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 shall be guilty of a class D felony. Any sex offender who violates the
2 provisions of section one hundred sixty-eight-v or one hundred sixty-
3 eight-w of this article shall be guilty of a class A misdemeanor upon
4 conviction for the first offense, and upon conviction for a second or
5 subsequent offense shall be guilty of a class D felony. Any such failure
6 to register or verify may also be the basis for revocation of parole
7 pursuant to section two hundred fifty-nine-i of the executive law or the
8 basis for revocation of probation pursuant to article four hundred ten
9 of the criminal procedure law.
10 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
