S 3113: Prohibits certain sex offenders from residing within 1,350 feet of school grounds, except that in cities having a population of one million or more, no such sex offender may reside within 500 feet of school grounds; establishes a violation thereof shall be a class C felony.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3113 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE January 23, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. HELMING -- 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 prohibiting certain sex offenders from residing near the boundaries of any school The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 168-w of the correction law, as relettered by chap- 2 ter 604 of the laws of 2005, is renumbered section 168-x and a new 3 section 168-w is added to read as follows: 4 § 168-w. Residence near school boundary; prohibition. 1. No designated 5 sex offender shall reside within one thousand three hundred fifty feet 6 of the boundaries of any school that works with, instructs or treats 7 children under the age of eighteen years; provided, however, that in a 8 city having a population of one million or more, no designated sex 9 offender shall reside within five hundred feet of the boundaries of any 10 school that works with, instructs or treats children under the age of 11 eighteen years. 12 2. For the purposes of this section: 13 (a) "Boundaries of any school" means in, on or within any building, 14 structure, athletic playing field, playground or land contained within 15 the real property boundary line of a certified day care center, public 16 or private elementary, intermediate, junior high, vocational or high 17 school, or similar educational institution where children are in daily 18 attendance. 19 (b) "Designated sex offender" means any sex offender who was: 20 (i) convicted of the commission of or an attempt to commit any 21 violation of section 130.20, 130.25, 130.30, 130.35, 130.55, 130.60, 22 130.65, 130.66, 130.67, 130.70, 130.75, 130.80 or 255.25 or article two 23 hundred sixty-three of the penal law; or EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD07197-01-5 
 S. 3113 2 1 (ii) convicted of any sex offense or sexually violent offense, where 2 the victim of such offense was under the age of eighteen years. 3 3. Any designated sex offender who violates any provision of subdivi- 4 sion one of this section shall be guilty of a class C felony. 5 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed- 6 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.