HCS SCS SB 1070 -- PROTECTION OF CHILDREN

SPONSOR:  Gibbons (Hosmer)

COMMITTEE ACTION:  Voted "do pass" by the Committee on Criminal
Law by a vote of 9 to 0.

This substitute authorizes the State Highway Patrol to inform
providers whether an applicant for employment is a registered
offender under "Megan's Law."  It also requires the information
from the registry to be made available to other entities, as
provided for by law.

The substitute also requires convicted sex offenders to register
with the chief law enforcement officer of the county in which the
sex offender resides within 10 days of his or her conviction,
release from incarceration, or being placed on probation.
Current law requires registration within 10 days of "coming into
any county."  The substitute requires individuals to register who
have been convicted of a sex offense in another state or under
federal jurisdiction since July 1, 1979.

Currently, appeal bonds can be denied for individuals who are
sentenced to death or life imprisonment or who are sentenced to
imprisonment for drug trafficking, second degree murder, first
degree assault, or forcible rape.  The substitute adds statutory
rape, sexual assault, forcible sodomy, statutory sodomy, deviate
sexual assault, and sexual abuse to the list of crimes for which
the appeal bond can be denied.

FISCAL NOTE:  Estimated Net Cost to the Criminal Records System
Fund of $54,885 in FY 2003, $63,420 in FY 2004, and $65,007 in FY
2005.

PROPONENTS:  Supporters say that the substitute includes
registered sex offenders on the registry of the State Highway
Patrol for child and elder care providers.

Testifying for the bill was Senator Gibbons.

OPPONENTS:  There was no opposition voiced to the committee.

Amy Woods, Legislative Analyst

Missouri House of Representatives
Last Updated October 11, 2002 at 9:04 am