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Senator · Senate District 40
1 Co-sponsor
History
- Referred to codes
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 56–2
- Advanced to third reading
- 2nd report cal.
- 1st report cal.466
- Referred to codes
- Returned to senate
- Died in assembly
- Referred to codes
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 57–2
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- Ordered to third reading cal.1319
- Committee discharged and committed to rules
- Referred to codes
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Prohibits sex offenders who are on parole or probation, or conditionally discharged from being upon the premises of any facility providing child day care
In Assembly Committee · Codes · Sponsor Kenneth Zebrowski
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Sponsor's memo
BILL NUMBER:S2578 REVISED 4/24/14
Title of bill
An act to amend the penal law and the executive law, in relation to prohibiting sex offenders from being upon the premises of any home or facility where child day care is provided
Purpose
This legislation will prohibit sex offenders who are on parole or probation, or conditionally discharged from being into, upon or within one thousand feet upon the premises of any facility proving day care.
Summary of provisions
Section One - amends chapter 67 of the penal law to state that when a person is convicted of an offense and has been designated a level three sex offender, the court shall require as a mandatory condition of such sentence, that the offender will refrain from knowingly entering a facility where a child day care.
Section Two - amends the subdivision 14 of section 259-c of the executive law to state that when a person is convicted of an offense and has been designated a level three sex offender, the court shall require as a mandatory condition of such sentence, that the offender will refrain from knowingly entering a facility where a child day care.
Section Three - states this law would take effects immediately.
Justification
Across the state, not willing to wait for the courts to move forward, municipalities and counties are taking proactive measures to protect their children from violent sexual predators by enacting residency requirement legislation to keep sex offenders away from children.
This legislation will close a current loophole in the law, that allows level three sex offenders to live within 1,000 feet of a day care facility. Under the current law, day care facilities can be interpreted as places of businesses that are not protected from sex offenders.
Legislative history
03/09/12 - S.6683 Referred to Codes 06/13/13 - S.2578 Passed Senate/ 05/28/13 - A.7614 Referred to Codes
Fiscal implications
None.
Effective date
This act shall take effect immediately.
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