SECOND REGULAR SESSION
[P E R F E C T E D]
SENATE BILL NO. 758
91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR BENTLEY.
Pre-filed December 1, 2001, and 1,000 copies ordered printed.
Read 2nd time January 16, 2002, and referred to the Committee on Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence.
Reported from the Committee January 28, 2002, with recommendation that the bill do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar.
Taken up February 11, 2002. Read 3rd time and placed upon its final passage; bill passed.
TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.
3179S.01P
AN ACT
To repeal section 589.400, RSMo, relating to registration of offenders, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the same subject.
Section A. Section 589.400, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 589.400, to read as follows:
589.400. 1. Sections 589.400 to 589.425 shall apply to:
(1) Any person who, since July 1, 1979, has been or is hereafter convicted of, been found guilty of, or pled guilty to committing, or attempting to commit, an offense of chapter 566, RSMo; or
(2) Any person who, since July 1, 1979, has been or is hereafter convicted of, been found guilty of, or pled guilty to committing, or attempting to commit one or more of the following offenses: kidnapping; promoting prostitution in the first degree; promoting prostitution in the second degree; promoting prostitution in the third degree; incest; abuse of a child; used a child in a sexual performance; or promoting sexual performance by a child; and committed or attempted to commit the offense against a victim who is a minor, defined for the purposes of sections 589.400 to 589.425 as a person under eighteen years of age; or
(3) Any person who, since July 1, 1979, has been committed to the department of mental health as a criminal sexual psychopath; or
(4) Any person who, since July 1, 1979, has been found not guilty as a result of mental disease or defect of any offense listed in subdivision (1) or (2) of this subsection; or
(5) Any person who is a resident of this state and has been or is required to register in another state or has been or is required to register under federal or military law; or
(6) Any person who has been or is required to register in another state or has been or is required to register under federal or military law and who works or attends school or training on a full-time or on a part-time basis in Missouri. Part-time in this subdivision means for more than fourteen days in any twelve-month period.
2. Any person who resides in any county of the state and to whom sections 589.400 to 589.425 apply shall register by September 10, 2002, with the chief law enforcement official of the county in which such person resides. Any person who is released from custody and who then or thereafter resides in any county of the state and to whom sections 589.400 to 589.425 apply shall, within ten days of [coming into any] such release or becoming such a resident of any county, register with the chief law enforcement official of the county in which such person resides. The chief law enforcement official shall forward a copy of the registration form required by section 589.407 to a city, town or village law enforcement agency located within the county of the chief law enforcement official, if so requested. Such request may ask the chief law enforcement official to forward copies of all registration forms filed with such official. The chief law enforcement official may forward a copy of such registration form to any city, town or village law enforcement agency, if so requested.
3. The registration requirements of sections 589.400 through 589.425 are lifetime registration requirements unless all offenses requiring registration are reversed, vacated or set aside or unless the registrant is pardoned of the offenses requiring registration.