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Relating to the crime of indecent exposure and making penalties applicable
Topics:Crime & corrections
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 25, 2022
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 26, 2022
- Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2022 session adjourned on May 24, 2022, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary Under this law, exposing a female breast to another person to satisfy sexual desires would become a crime of indecent exposure. People convicted of this offense would be required to register as sex offenders and follow no-contact orders after leaving jail. This change expands the current rules that already punish exposing genitals or performing sex acts in front of others.1
Read the official explanation
This bill relates to the crime of indecent exposure. Current law provides that a person who exposes the person’s genitals or pubic area to another not the person’s spouse, or who commits a sex act in the presence of or view of a third person, if the person does so to arouse or satisfy the sexual desires of either party and the person knows or reasonably should know that the act is offensive to the viewer, commits the crime of indecent exposure, a serious misdemeanor. The bill expands current law to provide that a person who exposes the person’s female breast with less than a fully opaque covering of any part of the nipple to another person not the person’s spouse, if the exposure is done to arouse or satisfy the sexual desires of either party and the person knows or reasonably should know that the act is offensive to the viewer, commits the crime of indecent exposure, a serious misdemeanor. A serious misdemeanor is punishable by confinement for no more than one year and a fine of at least $430 but not more than $2,560.19.
Senate subcommittee
Named January 26, 2022. It hasn’t reported yet.
- Sen. Jason Schultz REmail
- Sen. Janet Petersen DEmail
- Sen. J. Taylor
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