Bills · 2023-2024 Regular Session

AB 166

Relating to: definition of “sexual contact” for purposes of crimes against children and sexual assault and providing a penalty.

Children Legislature — Criminal penalties joint review committee on Sex crimes

Introduced, completed
Passes Assembly, completed
Passes Senate, completed
Governor signs, completed
Law, completed

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Current law defines “sexual contact” for the purposes of crimes against children

and the crime of sexual assault. In the definitions in current law, if the perpetrator

intentionally touches the victim's intimate parts, or if the perpetrator instructs the

victim to intentionally touch the intimate parts of the perpetrator or another person,

for the purpose of sexually degrading or sexually humiliating the victim or sexually

arousing or sexually gratifying the perpetrator, then it is “sexual contact.” Under

this bill, “sexual contact” also includes when the victim is made to touch the

ejaculate, urine, or feces of any person upon instruction from the perpetrator, upon

the use or threat of force or violence by the perpetrator, or upon an intentional act

of the perpetrator, if the purpose is to sexually degrade or sexually humiliate the

victim or sexually arouse or sexually gratify the perpetrator.

Because this bill creates a new crime or revises a penalty for an existing crime,

the Joint Review Committee on Criminal Penalties may be requested to prepare a

report.

Votes

Assembly: Report passage recommended by Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety, Ayes 13, Noes 0

Passed 13–0 May 31, 2023 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Assembly: PASSAGE

Passed 96–0 Jun 7, 2023 official source full page

Aye · 96

Not voting · 2

Donna Rozar (69)
Greta Neubauer (66)

Senate: Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety, Ayes 7, Noes 0

Passed 7–0 Sep 11, 2023 official source full page