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1999 SESSION
SB 759 Punishment upon conviction of certain criminal sexual acts.
Introduced by: Janet D. Howell | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (all summaries)
Punishment upon conviction of certain criminal sexual acts. Provides that aggravated sexual battery is a crime for which a second offense is punishable by life imprisonment without suspension. The bill also expands the list of those sexual offenses for which a second or subsequent offense is punishable by the maximum amount allowable for the latest offense, none of which is subject to suspension. This change allows a second offense, taken from the list of more serious (life imprisonment) second offenses, to aggravate the punishment of a less serious first offense, and vice versa.
The bill also increases the punishment for a second offense of taking indecent liberties with children to a Class 5 felony. Currently all such offenses are Class 6 felonies.
FULL TEXT
- 01/13/99 Senate: Presented & ordered printed 993483825 pdf
- 02/05/99 Senate: Printed as engrossed 993483825-E pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/13/99 Senate: Presented & ordered printed 993483825
- 01/13/99 Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 01/27/99 Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice w/amd. (15-Y 0-N)
- 01/27/99 Senate: Rereferred to Finance
- 02/03/99 Senate: Reported from Finance (17-Y 0-N)
- 02/04/99 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/04/99 Senate: VOTE: CONST. RDG. DISPENSED R (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/05/99 Senate: Read second time
- 02/05/99 Senate: Reading of amendment waived
- 02/05/99 Senate: Committee amendment agreed to
- 02/05/99 Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended
- 02/05/99 Senate: Printed as engrossed 993483825-E
- 02/05/99 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/05/99 Senate: VOTE: CONST. RDG. DISPENSED R (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/05/99 Senate: Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/05/99 Senate: VOTE: PASSAGE R (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/05/99 Senate: Rec. of passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/05/99 Senate: VOTE: RECONSIDER R (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/05/99 Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/05/99 Senate: VOTE: PASSAGE R (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/05/99 Senate: Communicated to House
- 02/10/99 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/10/99 House: Read first time
- 02/10/99 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/10/99 House: Assigned to C. J. sub-committee: 1
- 02/19/99 House: Reported from C. J. with amendments (24-Y 0-N)
- 02/19/99 House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 02/23/99 House: Passed by indefinitely in Appropriations (25-Y 2-N)