SB 941 - This act revises provisions concerning certain sexual offenses against children. The act adds a provision to the crime of statutory sodomy, prohibiting causing a child less than 14 to have deviate sexual intercourse with another person or engage in any act of bestiality.

Currently, child molestation in the first degree involves a child victim under the age of 12; the act extends the age to under 14. Similarly, the age of the child victim in the crime of child molestation in the second degree is revised from age 12 or 13 to ages 14 to 16.

The act provides that a person commits the crime of child molestation in the first degree by soliciting a person less than 14 to have sexual contact with the offender or another person, or by inviting or attempting to persuade a child less than 14 to enter a vehicle or secluded place with the intent to commit an unlawful sexual act. Child molestation in the second degree includes the act of subjecting a child ages 14 to 16 to sexual contact.

Portions of the act are similar to HB 1741.
JOAN GUMMELS