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House Study Bill 189

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  1  1    Section 1.  NEW SECTION.  709.15A  SEXUAL EXPLOITATION BY
  1  2 AN EDUCATIONAL PRACTITIONER.
  1  3    1.  For purposes of this section, unless the context
  1  4 otherwise requires:
  1  5    a.  "Sexually exploits" means engaging in conduct that is
  1  6 for the purpose of arousing or satisfying the sexual desires
  1  7 of an educational practitioner or student and includes but is
  1  8 not limited to kissing; touching of the clothed or unclothed
  1  9 inner thigh, breast, groin, buttock, anus, pubes, or genitals;
  1 10 or committing a sex act as defined in section 702.17.
  1 11    b.  "Student" means a person who is sixteen or seventeen
  1 12 years of age and who attends or who formerly attended a public
  1 13 or nonpublic school, or a person who is more than seventeen
  1 14 years of age and is attending a secondary education program.
  1 15    2.  A practitioner who has been issued a license,
  1 16 certificate, or authorization by the board of education
  1 17 examiners under chapter 272 who sexually exploits a student
  1 18 commits an aggravated misdemeanor.  
  1 19                           EXPLANATION
  1 20    This bill establishes the crime of sexual exploitation of a
  1 21 student by an educational practitioner who is licensed or who
  1 22 has been issued a certificate or authorization under the state
  1 23 licensing provisions in Code chapter 272.
  1 24    The bill's provisions would be codified as new Code section
  1 25 709.15A in the sexual abuse Code chapter.  The crime of sexual
  1 26 exploitation of a student by an educational practitioner is
  1 27 punishable as an aggravated misdemeanor (maximum penalty of a
  1 28 prison sentence of not more than two years and fine of $500 to
  1 29 $5,000).
  1 30    A student is defined as a person who is 16 or 17 years of
  1 31 age and is attending or formerly attended a public or
  1 32 nonpublic school, or a person who is more than 17 years of age
  1 33 and is attending a secondary education program.
  1 34    Sexual exploitation is defined as engaging in conduct that
  1 35 is for the purpose of arousing or satisfying the sexual
  2  1 desires of an educational practitioner or student and includes
  2  2 but is not limited to kissing; touching of the clothed or
  2  3 unclothed inner thigh, breast, groin, buttock, anus, pubes, or
  2  4 genitals; or committing a sex act as defined in Code section
  2  5 702.17.  
  2  6 LSB 2398HC 78
  2  7 jp/sc/14
     

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