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A 4734: Authorizes municipalities to establish residency restrictions for sex offenders.
What A 4734 does, verified January 9, 2026
The bill aims to allow municipalities to establish residency restrictions for sex offenders who are required to register. The local municipality is in a better position to determine what entities with vulnerable populations would require protection from registered sex offenders. The residency restrictions must be no less restrictive than the requirements set forth in the penal law and executive law. The bill allows municipalities to enact local laws imposing residency restrictions on sex offenders. The residency restrictions take effect immediately.
Bill journey
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3First Chamber FloorPending
4Second ChamberPending
5GovernorPending
6ChapteredPending
Last action: referred to correction (2026-01-07)Alert me
Quick answers about A 4734
- What is the current status of A 4734?
- As of January 9, 2026, A 4734 is recorded as "Introduced": it has been introduced and is waiting for its first committee hearing or floor vote. The last recorded action, on January 7, 2026, was "referred to correction".
- Did A 4734 pass?
- Not yet. A 4734 has been introduced and has not passed either house.
- Who wrote A 4734, and where is it now?
- A 4734 was authored by Asm. Michael Durso with 5 coauthors. Its committee of record is Assembly Correction.
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| Jan. 07, 2026 | referred to correction |
| Feb. 06, 2025 | referred to correction |
Latest bill textIntroduced version, February 6, 2025 · 306 words
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4734 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 6, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. DURSO -- 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: 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 since municipalities are in a 6 better position than the state, after taking into consideration local 7 conditions and after determining what entities with vulnerable popu- 8 lations would require protection from registered sex offenders, to make 9 such determinations. 10 § 2. Section 168-w of the correction law, as renumbered by chapter 604 11 of the laws of 2005, is renumbered section 168-x and a new section 168-w 12 is added to read as follows: 13 § 168-w. Municipal residency restrictions. Any municipality may enact 14 a local law which imposes residency restrictions upon sex offenders 15 required to register pursuant to this article, provided that such resi- 16 dency restrictions are no less restrictive than the requirements set 17 forth in paragraph (a) of subdivision four-a of section 65.10 of the 18 penal law and subdivision fourteen of section two hundred fifty-nine-c 19 of the executive law. 20 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD00442-01-5
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