S 281: Authorizes municipalities to establish residency restrictions for sex offenders.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 281 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sens. RHOADS, BORRELLO -- 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 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