FIRST REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 533

91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES JOHNSON (90) (Sponsor), JETTON, HOSMER,

HOLLINGSWORTH, HOLT, SHOEMYER, LEVIN, ROBIRDS, McKENNA, LOWE, LADD BAKER,

GRAHAM AND SELBY.

Read 1st time January 24, 2001, and 1000 copies ordered printed.

TED WEDEL, Chief Clerk

0382L.02I

AN ACT

To amend chapter 565, RSMo, relating to offenses against the person by adding thereto one new section relating to the same subject, with a penalty provision.



Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

Section A. Chapter 565, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 565.200, to read as follows:

565.200. 1. Any owner or employee of a long-term care facility, as defined in section 660.600, RSMo, who has sexual contact, as defined in section 556.061, RSMo, with a resident of such facility is guilty of a class B misdemeanor. Any person who commits a second or subsequent violation of this section is guilty of a class A misdemeanor.

2. Consent of the victim is no defense to a prosecution under this section.


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