SB 149

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.