HB369 Alabama 2013 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

David Standridge Representative

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2013

Title

Sex Crimes, school employee having sexual contact with student under age of 19, sexual contact clarified to include asking student to initiate contact, Sec. 13A-6-82 am'd.

Description

Under existing law, a person commits the crime of a school employee having sexual contact with a student under the age of 19 years if he or she engages in sexual contact with the student.

Under existing law, sexual contact means touching of the sexual or other intimate parts of a student for sexual gratification or soliciting or harassing a student to perform a sex act.

This bill would clarify sexual contact to mean touching the sexual or other intimate parts of another person for sexual gratification in order to provide for a situation in which the school employee asks a student to initiate sexual contact.

Amendment 621 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, now appearing as Section 111.05 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended, prohibits a general law whose purpose or effect would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds from becoming effective with regard to a local governmental entity without enactment by a 2/3 vote unless: it comes within one of a number of specified exceptions; it is approved by the affected entity; or the Legislature appropriates funds, or provides a local source of revenue, to the entity for the purpose.

The purpose or effect of this bill would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of the amendment. However, the bill does not require approval of a local governmental entity or enactment by a 2/3 vote to become effective because it comes within one of the specified exceptions contained in the amendment.

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Subjects

Sex Crimes