Bills · 2023-2024 Regular Session
Relating to: hiding, burying, or mutilating a corpse to conceal a crime and providing a penalty.
Crime and criminals Crime and criminals — Felony Legislature — Criminal penalties joint review committee on
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What this bill does
Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau
Under current law it is a Class F felony to mutilate, disfigure, dismember, hide,
or bury a corpse if the act is done to conceal a crime or to avoid being apprehended,
prosecuted, or convicted for a crime. This bill increases the penalty to a Class C
felony.
A person who is convicted of a Class F felony is subject to a fine of not more than
$25,000, imprisonment for not more than 12 years and 6 months, or both. A person
who is convicted of a Class C felony is subject to a fine of not more than $100,000,
imprisonment for not more than 40 years, or both.
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.