Prohibits placing of level 2 and 3 sex offenders in any temporary emergency housing or homeless shelters used to house families with children.

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S2328-2013 Actions

• May 2, 2013: PRINT NUMBER 2328A
• May 2, 2013: AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO FINANCE
• Feb 12, 2013: REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE
• Jan 16, 2013: REFERRED TO SOCIAL SERVICES

S2328-2013 Meetings

Social Services: Feb 12, 2013, Finance: Apr 23, 2013

S2328-2013 Votes

S2328-2013 Memo

BILL NUMBER:S2328

TITLE OF BILL:  An act to amend the social services law, in relation
to restricting placement of level two or level three sex offenders in
any temporary emergency housing or homeless shelters used to house
families with children

PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL: Prohibits placing of level 2 and 3
sex offenders in any temporary emergency housing or homeless shelters
used to house families with children.

SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:  Adds a new section 131-y to the
social services law prohibiting placement of level 2 and level 3 sex
offenders in temporary housing or homeless shelters used to house
families with children.

JUSTIFICATION:  This legislation would require municipalities to place
homeless level 2 and level 3 sex offenders in adult-only shelters or
emergency housing where they will not be in close contact with
children. Sex offenders are already barred from living in public
housing; this measure extends the same protection to homeless
families. This amendment changes the reference from the Office of
Children and Family Services to the Office of Temporary and Disability
Assistance.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:  2008: S.7742 - Referred to Social Services,
Children & Families 2009-10: S.1867 - Referred to Social Services,
Children & Families 2011-12: S.990 - Senate Calendar No. 716

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS: No costs to the state.

EFFECTIVE DATE: This act shall take effect 180 days after it shall
have become law.

S2328-2013 Text

                      S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
  ________________________________________________________________________

                                    2328

                         2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                              I N  SENATE

                              January 16, 2013
                                 ___________

  Introduced  by  Sens.  KLEIN,  ADAMS, AVELLA, CARLUCCI, DIAZ, FUSCHILLO,
    GOLDEN, HASSELL-THOMPSON, LANZA, MARTINS, RANZENHOFER, SAMPSON,  SAVI-
    NO,  SEWARD,  STAVISKY  --  read  twice  and ordered printed, and when
    printed to be committed to the Committee on Social Services

  AN ACT to amend the social services  law,  in  relation  to  restricting
    placement  of  level two or level three sex offenders in any temporary
    emergency housing or homeless shelters used  to  house  families  with
    children

    THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
  BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


    Section 1. The social services law is amended by adding a new  section
  131-y to read as follows:

    S  131-Y.  PLACEMENT  OF  LEVEL  TWO  OR  LEVEL  THREE  SEX OFFENDERS.
  NOTWITHSTANDING ANY INCONSISTENT PROVISION OF LAW, NEITHER THE OFFICE OF
  TEMPORARY AND DISABILITY ASSISTANCE,  NOR  A  SOCIAL  SERVICES  OFFICIAL
  ACTING  ON HIS OR HER OWN OR AS AN AGENT PURSUANT TO SECTION ONE HUNDRED
  THIRTY-EIGHT-A OF THIS TITLE, SHALL PERMIT OR CAUSE THE PLACEMENT OF ANY
  SEX OFFENDER WHO HAS BEEN ASSIGNED A LEVEL TWO  OR  LEVEL  THREE  DESIG-
  NATION  PURSUANT TO ARTICLE SIX-C OF THE CORRECTION LAW, INTO ANY TEMPO-
  RARY EMERGENCY HOUSING OR HOMELESS SHELTERS USED TO HOUSE FAMILIES  WITH
  CHILDREN.
    S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
  it shall have become a law.



   EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                        [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                             LBD03999-02-3