FIRST REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 382

94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES WILDBERGER (Sponsor), MOORE AND SCHAAF (Co-sponsors).

                  Read 1st time January 11, 2007 and copies ordered printed.

D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk

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AN ACT

To amend chapter 565, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to transporting a child without parental consent, 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 565.145, to read as follows:

            565.145. 1. This act shall be called and may be cited as "Ashley's Law".

            2. A person commits the crime of transporting a child without parental consent if such person knowingly transports a child under the age of seventeen out of the state of Missouri, without the written consent of the child's parent or legal guardian, for one of the following purposes:

            (1) To commit a crime with the child being the victim of that crime; or

            (2) To commit a crime with the child being a participant in that crime.

            2. Transporting a child without parental consent is a class C felony.

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