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2024 SESSION
SB 394 Carnal knowledge and sexual battery; persons detained or arrested by a law-enforcement officer.
Introduced by: Russet Perry | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)
Carnal knowledge and sexual battery; persons detained or arrested by a law-enforcement officer; confidential informants, pretrial defendants or posttrial offenders; penalty. Provides that an accused is guilty of carnal knowledge of a person serving as a confidential informant, defined in the bill, if he (i) is a law-enforcement officer; (ii) knows that such person is serving as a confidential informant for the law-enforcement agency where such officer is employed; and (iii) carnally knows, without use of force, threat, or intimidation, such confidential informant while such person is serving as a confidential informant or is expected to testify in a criminal case for which the confidential informant assisted the law-enforcement agency with its investigation. The bill provides that such offense is a Class 6 felony. The bill also provides that an accused is guilty of sexual battery if he sexually abuses (a) a person detained or arrested by a law-enforcement officer and the accused is a law-enforcement officer, (b) a pretrial defendant or posttrial offender and the accused is an owner or employee of the bail company that posted the pretrial defendant's or posttrial offender's bond, or (c) a person serving as a confidential informant and the accused is a law-enforcement officer. Current law provides that sexual battery is a Class 1 misdemeanor for a first offense and a Class 6 felony for a third or subsequent offense.
FULL TEXT
- 01/09/24 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104794D pdf | impact statement
- 01/31/24 Senate: Committee substitute printed 24106165D-S1 pdf | impact statements
- 02/23/24 House: Committee substitute printed 24108136D-H1 pdf | impact statements
- 03/08/24 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB394ER) pdf | impact statement
- 04/05/24 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0592) pdf
AMENDMENTS
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted
- Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
HISTORY
- 01/09/24 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104794D
- 01/09/24 Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 01/31/24 Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
- 01/31/24 Senate: Committee substitute printed 24106165D-S1
- 01/31/24 Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 02/07/24 Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/08/24 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/09/24 Senate: Read second time
- 02/09/24 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/09/24 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 24106165D-S1
- 02/09/24 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB394S1
- 02/09/24 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/09/24 Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/15/24 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/15/24 House: Read first time
- 02/15/24 House: Referred to Committee on Public Safety
- 02/16/24 House: Referred from Public Safety by voice vote
- 02/16/24 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/20/24 House: Assigned Courts sub: Criminal
- 02/21/24 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N)
- 02/21/24 House: Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
- 02/23/24 House: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (21-Y 0-N)
- 02/23/24 House: Committee substitute printed 24108136D-H1
- 02/23/24 House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 02/28/24 House: Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N)
- 03/01/24 House: Read second time
- 03/04/24 House: Read third time
- 03/04/24 House: Committee substitute agreed to 24108136D-H1
- 03/04/24 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB394H1
- 03/04/24 House: Passed House with substitute BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N)
- 03/04/24 House: VOTE: Block Vote Passage (97-Y 0-N)
- 03/05/24 Senate: Passed by temporarily
- 03/05/24 Senate: House substitute agreed to by Senate (29-Y 11-N)
- 03/05/24 Senate: Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 03/05/24 Senate: House substitute agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 03/05/24 Senate: Title replaced 24108136D-H1
- 03/08/24 Senate: Enrolled
- 03/08/24 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB394ER)
- 03/08/24 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/09/24 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/11/24 Senate: Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024
- 03/11/24 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
- 04/05/24 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 592 (effective 7/1/24)
- 04/05/24 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0592)