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- Recommit, enacting clause stricken
- Referred to crime victims, crime and correction
- Returned to senate
- Died in assembly
- Referred to correction
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 55–0
- Ordered to third reading cal.44
- Committee discharged and committed to rules
- Referred to crime victims, crime and correction
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BILL NUMBER:S2084
Title of bill
An act to amend the correction law, in relation to custody and visitation rights of a sex offender
Summary of provisions
Section one of the bill amends Article 6-C of the Correction Law by re-designating § 168-w as § 168-x and adding a new § 168-w to prohibit any sex offender designated as a sexual predator, or a sexually violent offender, or classified as a level three risk, for a crime involving a child shall be, except in extraordinary circumstances, prohibited from being granted by a court physical or legal custody of, or unsupervised visitation with a child.
The bill further amends the law by adding to the new Section 168-w a presumption of ineligibility of any sex offender classified as a level three risk from being granted physical or legal custody of, or unsupervised visitation with, a child unless the sex offender has provided clear and convincing evidence that it would be in the best interest of the child.
Justification
The children of sex offenders, perhaps most of all, are at the greatest risk for abuse and deserve the significant protections that would come from denying a sex offender-parent custody or unsupervised visitation. Sexual offenders designated level three risk, sexual predator and sexually violent offender for crimes involving a child, shall be prohibited from being granted custody or visitation, except in extraordinary circumstances. All other level three sex offenders shall be presumed ineligible for custody or visitation unless the sex offender presents clear and convincing evidence that it would be in the best interest of the child.
Fiscal implications
None.
Prior legislative history
2003-04: Senate 3rd Reading Cal./Assembly Corrections Cmte. 2005-06: Senate Crime Correction sVictims, Cmte.Crime & Corrections Cmte./Assembly 2007-08: Senate Crime Corrections Victims, Cmte.Crime & Corrections Cmte./Assembly 2009-10: Reported and Committed to Codes Cmte./Assembly Corrections Committee 2011-12:passed Senate/Assembly Corrections Committee 2013-14:Passed Senate
Effective date
This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.
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