FIRST REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 1174

94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES DUSENBERG (Sponsor), YATES, PRATT, LeVOTA, GRISAMORE AND KRAUS (Co-sponsors).

                  Read 1st time March 27, 2007 and copies ordered printed.

D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk

2708L.01I

AN ACT

To amend chapter 566, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to sexual offenders, with a penalty provision.

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

            Section A. Chapter 566, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 566.148, to read as follows:

            566.148. 1. Any person who has pleaded guilty or nolo contendere to, or been convicted of, or been found guilty of violating any of the provisions of this chapter or the provisions of subsection 2 of section 568.020, RSMo, incest; section 568.045, RSMo, endangering the welfare of a child in the first degree; subsection 2 of section 568.080, RSMo, use of a child in a sexual performance; section 568.090, RSMo, promoting a sexual performance by a child; section 573.023, RSMo, sexual exploitation of a minor; section 573.025, RSMo, promoting child pornography in the first degree; section 573.035, RSMo, promoting child pornography in the second degree; section 573.037, RSMo, possession of child pornography, or section 573.040, RSMo, furnishing pornographic material to minors shall not knowingly be physically present in or loiter within five hundred feet of or to approach, contact, or communicate with any child under eighteen years of age in any child care facility building, on the real property comprising any child care facility when persons under the age of eighteen are present in the building, on the grounds, or in the conveyance, unless the offender is a parent, legal guardian, or custodian of a student present in the building or on the grounds.

            2. For purposes of this section, "child care facility" shall have the same meaning as such term is defined in section 210.201, RSMo.

            3. Any person who violates the provisions of this section is guilty of a class A misdemeanor.

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