SECOND REGULAR SESSION
HOUSE BILL NO. 1498
91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES JOHNSON (90), BRITT, HOSMER, McKENNA, HARDING,
JOLLY, SHOEMYER (9), WILLOUGHBY, BERKOWITZ (Co-sponsors), BARNITZ,
COPENHAVER AND GREEN (15).
Read 1st time January 16, 2002, and 1000 copies ordered printed.
TED WEDEL, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To amend chapters 565 and 566, RSMo, by adding thereto two new sections relating to sexual offenses against inmates and residents in skilled nursing facilities and Alzheimer's special units or programs, with penalty provisions.
Section A. Chapters 565 and 566, RSMo, are amended by adding thereto two new sections, to be known as sections 565.200 and 566.145, to read as follows:
565.200. 1. Any owner or employee of a skilled nursing facility, as defined in section 198.006, RSMo, or an Alzheimer's special unit or program, as defined in section 198.505, RSMo, who:
(1) Has sexual contact, as defined in section 566.010, RSMo, with a resident is guilty of a class B misdemeanor. Any person who commits a second or subsequent violation of this subdivision is guilty of a class A misdemeanor; or
(2) Has sexual intercourse or deviant sexual intercourse, as defined in section 566.010, RSMo, with a resident is guilty of a class D felony. Any person who commits a second or subsequent violation of this subdivision is guilty of a class C felony.
2. The provisions of this section shall not apply to an owner or employee of a skilled nursing facility or Alzheimer's special unit or program who engages in sexual conduct, as defined in section 566.010, RSMo, with a resident to whom the owner or employee is married.
566.145. 1. A person commits the crime of sexual conduct with an inmate if such person is an employee of, or assigned to work in, any jail, prison or correctional facility and such person has sexual intercourse or deviate sexual intercourse with an inmate or resident of the facility.
2. Sexual conduct with an inmate is a class D felony.
Missouri House of Representatives