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HB 1526 Children; use of communications systems to facilitate certain offenses, penalty.

Introduced by: Mark J. Berg | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Use of communications systems to facilitate certain offenses involving children; penalty. Provides that a person under 18 years of age who uses a communications system for the purposes of soliciting, with lascivious intent, any child he knows or has reason to believe is at least 13 years of age but younger than 15 years of age to knowingly and intentionally commit certain sexual acts is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor if such person is at least three years older than the child. The bill also provides that a person under 18 years of age who uses a communications system for the purposes of soliciting, with lascivious intent, any child he knows or has reason to believe is younger than 13 years of age to knowingly and intentionally commit certain sexual acts is guilty of a Class 5 felony.


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