| Bill Description: | This is a wide-ranging bill that increases the penalties for sexual offenses and the restrictions on offenders' activities. It requires a penalty of either twenty-five years prison time plus lifetime monitoring or life imprisonment for those convicted of first-degree rape of a child under 13, first-degree sexual offense against a child under thirteen, or the newly-created crime of lewd or lascivious molestation of a child. It also makes sex offender registration requirements more stringent, requires local law enforcement authorities to notify their respective communities of the presence of sex offenders, and prohibits sex offenders from being on premises where children congregate. |
| Session: | 2007 Long Session |
| Party Sponsor: | Republican |
| Sponsor(s): | Debbie Clary , Julia Howard , Tim Moore , Charles Thomas |
| Co-Sponsor(s): | Cary Allred , Jeff Barnhart , Joe Boylan , Larry Brown , George Cleveland , Lorene Coates , Bill Current , Bill Daughtridge , Jerry Dockham , Nelson Dollar , Dale Folwell , Phillip Frye , Mitch Gillespie , Robert Grady , Mark Hilton , Bryan Holloway , Linda Johnson , Carolyn Justice , Carolyn Justus , Ric Killian , James Langdon, Jr. , David Lewis , Daniel McComas , Patricia McElraft , William McGee , Wil Neumann , Louis Pate , Karen Ray , Mitchell Setzer , Edgar Starnes , Bonner Stiller , Thom Tillis , Trudi Walend |
| Bill Text: | Link to Full Bill |
| Bill Introduced: | Mar 20, 2007 |
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