 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6516
 
                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                     April 25, 2023
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sen. KENNEDY -- 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, in relation to municipal residency
          restrictions
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1.  Legislative  findings. It is the sense of the legislature
     2  that determinations regarding restrictions upon  the  residence  of  sex
     3  offenders  who  are  required  to register pursuant to the provisions of
     4  article 6-C of the correction law should be made by  the  local  munici-
     5  pality  in  which  such  offenders  reside, subject to state set minimum
     6  distance and a permissible maximum distance allowing state interests  to
     7  determine housing for registered sex offenders.  Municipalities are in a
     8  better  position  than  the  state  to determine whether the restrictive
     9  residential distance from a school grounds shall remain at one  thousand
    10  feet, or shall be expanded to up to one thousand five hundred feet.
    11    § 2. Section 168-w of the correction law, as renumbered by chapter 604
    12  of the laws of 2005, is renumbered section 168-x and a new section 168-w
    13  is added to read as follows:
    14    § 168-w.  Municipal residency restrictions. Any municipality may enact
    15  a  local  law  which  imposes  residency restrictions upon sex offenders
    16  required to register pursuant to this article, provided that such  resi-
    17  dency  restrictions  are  no  less restrictive than the requirements set
    18  forth in paragraph (a) of subdivision four-a of  section  65.10  of  the
    19  penal  law  and subdivision fourteen of section two hundred fifty-nine-c
    20  of the executive law, and provided that such residency  restrictions  do
    21  not exceed one thousand five hundred feet from a school grounds.
    22    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05045-01-3
Provides for municipal residency restrictions

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