Text: HF02308 Text: HF02310 Text: HF02300 - HF02399 Text: HF Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. Section 709.16, Code 1997, is amended to read 1 2 as follows: 1 3 709.16 SEXUAL MISCONDUCT WITH OFFENDERS AND JUVENILES. 1 4 1. An officer, employee, contractor, vendor, volunteer, or 1 5 agent of the department of corrections, or an officer, 1 6 employee, or agent of a judicial district department of 1 7 correctional services, who engages in a sex act with an 1 8 individual committed to the custody of the department of 1 9 corrections or a judicial district department of correctional 1 10 services commits an aggravated misdemeanor. 1 11 2. An officer, employee, contractor, vendor, volunteer, or 1 12 agent of a juvenile placement facility who engages in a sex 1 13 act with a juvenile placed at such facility commits an 1 14 aggravated misdemeanor. 1 15 3. A child foster care parent or an officer, employee, 1 16 contractor, vendor, volunteer, or agent of any foster care 1 17 agency who engages in a sex act with a juvenile placed in the 1 18 child foster care parent's or child foster care agency's 1 19 custody commits an aggravated misdemeanor. 1 20 EXPLANATION 1 21 Current law prohibits correctional employees, contractors, 1 22 and other agents from engaging in a sex act with offenders in 1 23 custody. This bill expands the criminal offense of sexual 1 24 misconduct to prohibit such sex acts between juvenile 1 25 placement facility employees, contractors, and other agents 1 26 and juveniles placed at these facilities. In addition, the 1 27 bill prohibits such sex acts between a foster parent or 1 28 employees, contractors, and other agents of a foster care 1 29 agency with a child placed in the foster parent's or agency's 1 30 care. 1 31 A person who violates the bill commits an aggravated 1 32 misdemeanor. 1 33 LSB 3605HH 77 1 34 jm/jw/5
Text: HF02308 Text: HF02310 Text: HF02300 - HF02399 Text: HF Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
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