HB 1698 -- Sexual Offenders

Sponsor:  Lipke

This bill changes the laws regarding sexual offenders.  In its
main provisions, the bill:

(1)  Requires a state department, agency, board, or commission
hiring a person for a full-time, part-time, or temporary position
with substantial direct contact with children younger than 16
years of age to request a background check.  The state
department, agency, board, or commission cannot hire any
individual for a position with substantial direct contact with
children younger than 16 years of age who has pled guilty or been
found guilty of any offense for which the person is required to
register as a sex offender or who has not disclosed his or her
criminal history;

(2)  Defines the terms "adverse result," "electronic
communication services," "foreign corporation," "Missouri
corporation," "properly served," and "remote computing services"
and specifies the procedures to reveal the identity of a person
using electronic communications services and the recipient or
destination of communications sent to or from those individuals;

(3)  Increases the penalty for a persistent sexual offender from
a minimum of 30 years' imprisonment to life imprisonment;

(4)  Specifies that a prior sex offender is a person who has
previously pled guilty or has been found guilty of a sexual
offense or of incest, when the person had sexual intercourse or
deviate sexual intercourse with the victim or of knowingly
engaging in sexual conduct with a person younger than 17 years of
age over whom the person is a parent, guardian, or otherwise
charged with the care and custody;

(5)  Increases the penalty for the crimes of forcible rape and
forcible sodomy from five years' imprisonment to life
imprisonment without eligibility for probation or parole until
the offender has served 25 years or the offender has reached 75
years of age and has served 15 years, when the victim was younger
than 12 years of age;

(6)  Creates the crimes of attempting to commit statutory rape in
the first degree and attempting to commit statutory sodomy in the
first degree;

(7)  Specifies that a person commits the crime of sexual
misconduct involving a child irrespective of if the person
committed the crime in person or via the Internet or other
electronic means or if a peace officer masqueraded as a minor;

(8)  Changes the penalty for the crime of enticement of a child
from a class C felony to a minimum of five years' imprisonment
and a maximum of 30 years' imprisonment;

(9)  Creates the crime of aiding a sexual offender.  The penalty
for this crime will be a class D felony;

(10)  Requires any person registered as a sexual offender to
provide an updated photograph of himself or herself when
reporting annually to a county law enforcement agency;

(11)  Requires any person registered as a sexual offender and who
has committed his or her third violation of the registration laws
to be electronically monitored for a period of 10 years and 10
additional years for each subsequent violation; and

(12)  Requires the chief law enforcement officer of each county
to review semiannually the address of each offender required to
register in his or her county and verify if the offender is
residing at that address.  The State Highway Patrol must compile
a list of those offenders no longer residing at their last
address and provide it to the Attorney General or head law
enforcement agency of the states of Tennessee, Kentucky,
Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas.

Missouri House of Representatives
93rd General Assembly, 2nd Regular Session
Last Updated November 29, 2006 at 9:44 am