FIRST REGULAR SESSION
SENATE BILL NO. 328
90TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATORS CLAY, BANKS AND WIGGINS.
Read 1st time January 21, 1999, and 1,000 copies ordered printed.
TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.
S0566.02I
AN ACT
To repeal sections 574.090 and 574.093, RSMo 1994, relating to the crime of intimidation, and to enact in lieu thereof three new sections relating to the same subject, with penalty provisions.
Section A. Sections 574.090 and 574.093, RSMo 1994, are repealed and three new sections enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as sections 574.087, 574.090 and 574.093, to read as follows:
574.087. For the purposes of sections 574.090 and 574.093, the following terms mean:
(1) "Disability", a physical or mental impairment which substantially limits one or more of a person's major life activities, being regarded as having such an impairment, or a record of having such an impairment; and
(2) "Sexual Orientation", male or female heterosexuality, homosexuality or bisexuality by inclination, practice, identity or expression, or having a self-image or identity not traditionally associated with one's biological maleness or femaleness.
574.090. 1. A person commits the crime of [ethnic] criminal intimidation in the first degree if, by reason of any motive relating to the actual, presumed or perceived race, color, religion [or], national origin, sex, sexual orientation or disability of another individual or group of individuals, he violates subdivision (1) of subsection 1 of section 569.100, RSMo, or subdivision (1), (2), (3), (4), (6), (7) or (8) of subsection 1 of section 571.030, RSMo.
2. [Ethnic] Criminal intimidation in the first degree is a class C felony.
574.093. 1. A person commits the crime of [ethnic] criminal intimidation in the second degree if, by reason of any motive relating to the actual, presumed or perceived race, color, religion [or], national origin, sex, sexual orientation or disability of another individual or group of individuals, he violates section 565.070, RSMo; subdivisions (1), (3) and (4) of subsection 1 of section 565.090, RSMo; subdivision (1) of subsection 1 of section 569.090, RSMo; subdivision (1) of subsection 1 of section 569.120, RSMo; section 569.140, RSMo; or section 574.050.
2. [Ethnic] Criminal intimidation in the second degree is a class D felony.