SECOND REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 1708

93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES ROORDA (Sponsor), CASEY, JOHNSON (90), MEADOWS, DUSENBERG, CUNNINGHAM (86), SANDERS BROOKS, BOWMAN AND MOORE (Co-sponsors).

                  Read 1st time February 8, 2006 and copies ordered printed.

STEPHEN S. DAVIS, Chief Clerk

4863L.01I

AN ACT

To amend chapter 568, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to failing to report suspicious photographs involving a child, with penalty provisions.

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

            Section A. Chapter 568, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 568.055, to read as follows:

            568.055. 1. A person commits the crime of failing to report suspicious photographs involving a child if such person:

            (1) Develops photographs through the course of such person's employment; and

            (2) Notices a photograph that appears to such person to depict the neglect, physical abuse, sexual abuse or other pornographic depiction of what appears to such person to be a child; and

            (3) Knowingly fails to report such photograph to such person's local law enforcement agency; or

            (4) Fails to retain such photograph until such law enforcement agency has had the opportunity to inspect such photograph.

            2. As used in this section "child" means a person under the age of seventeen.

            3. Failing to report suspicious photographs involving a child for a first offense is a class A misdemeanor. For a second or subsequent offense, it is a class D felony.

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