Assembly Bill A7718

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Authorizes municipalities to establish residency restrictions for sex offenders required to register with the division of criminal justice services

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2017-A7718 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2178
Current Committee:
Assembly Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Redes §168-w to be §168-x, add §168-w, Cor L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: A5812, S3925
2019-2020: S1389

2017-A7718 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes municipalities to establish residency restrictions for sex offenders required to register with the division of criminal justice services.

2017-A7718 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7718
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 11, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. JOHNS -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Correction
 
 AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to  authorizing  munici-
   palities to establish residency restrictions for sex offenders
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Legislative findings. It is the sense  of  the  legislature
 that  determinations  regarding  restrictions  upon the residence of sex
 offenders who are required to register pursuant  to  the  provisions  of
 article  6-C  of  the correction law should be made by the local munici-
 pality in which such offenders reside  since  municipalities  are  in  a
 better  position  than  the state, after taking into consideration local
 conditions and after determining what  entities  with  vulnerable  popu-
 lations  would require protection from registered sex offenders, to make
 such determinations.
   § 2. Section 168-w of the correction law, as relettered by chapter 604
 of the laws of 2005, is redesignated section 168-x  and  a  new  section
 168-w is added to read as follows:
   § 168-W. MUNICIPAL RESIDENCY RESTRICTIONS.  ANY MUNICIPALITY MAY ENACT
 A  LOCAL  LAW  WHICH  IMPOSES  RESIDENCY RESTRICTIONS UPON SEX OFFENDERS
 REQUIRED TO REGISTER PURSUANT TO THIS ARTICLE, PROVIDED THAT SUCH  RESI-
 DENCY  RESTRICTIONS  ARE  NO  LESS RESTRICTIVE THAN THE REQUIREMENTS SET
 FORTH IN PARAGRAPH (A) OF SUBDIVISION FOUR-A OF  SECTION  65.10  OF  THE
 PENAL  LAW  AND SUBDIVISION FOURTEEN OF SECTION TWO HUNDRED FIFTY-NINE-C
 OF THE EXECUTIVE LAW.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07998-01-7

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