HB 2476: Sex offenders & kidnappers

Protecting children, vulnerable persons, and communities by strengthening laws regarding sex offenders regardless of whether the perpetrator was known or unknown to the victim at the time of the crime, and kidnapping offenders.

1. IntroducedJan 9, 2006
2. Out of committeestopped here
3. Passed House
4. Passed Senate
5. Governor
6. Law

Prime sponsor

Jan Shabro (R-31)

Introduced

January 9, 2006 in the House

Last action

January 9, 2006

Companion bill

SB 6314

Budget

Makes appropriations · Has a fiscal note

AN ACT Relating to protecting children, vulnerable adults, and communities from sex and kidnapping offenders regardless of whether the perpetrator was known to the victim at the time of the crime by creating the new crimes of sexual victimization in the first and second degrees, failure to report an unregistered sex or kidnapping offender, and tampering with an electronic monitoring device, designating as a sex offense the crime of possession of depictions of a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct, increasing the penalty for failure to register as a sex or kidnapping offender, imposing minimum sentences for sexual victimization in the first and second degrees, child molestation in the first degree, kidnapping in the first degree with a finding of sexual motivation, and rape of a child in the first and second degrees, requiring electronic monitoring for certain sex offenders, adding to the aggravating circumstances for purposes of imposing the death penalty, requiring sex offenders to receive treatment and admit guilt before being released, prohibiting sex offenders with life sentences from receiving treatment, narrowing the eligibility for the special sex offender sentencing alternative, tightening sex and kidnapping offender registration requirements, and providing an appropriation to the attorney general for purposes of public education and awareness;