HB 3212: Protection from sex offender

Protecting children, vulnerable adults, and communities from sex offenders and kidnapping offenders.

1. IntroducedJan 25, 2006
2. Out of committeestopped here
3. Passed House
4. Passed Senate
5. Governor
6. Law

Prime sponsor

Kirk Pearson (R-39)

Introduced

January 25, 2006 in the House

Last action

January 25, 2006

Budget

Makes appropriations

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