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2020 SESSION

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SB 42 Aggravated sexual battery; penalty.

Introduced by: Bill DeSteph | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles | history

SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE:

Aggravated sexual battery; penalty. Provides that any massage therapist, person practicing the healing arts, or physical therapist, or a person purporting to be such practitioner, who sexually abuses another person without the express consent of the complaining witness is guilty of aggravated sexual battery.

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Aggravated sexual battery by false representation or subterfuge; penalty. Provides that any person who sexually abuses another person through false representation or subterfuge that is part of a massage by a massage therapist, a medical procedure, or physical therapy is guilty of aggravated sexual battery if such abuse is intentional and without the consent of the complaining witness. The bill also eliminates the provision that sexual battery can be accomplished by ruse.