SB0119

Grooming.

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Indiana SB0119 amends the state's criminal law to redefine and penalize sexual grooming and unlawful entry by serious sex offenders.

Indiana SB0119 amends the state's criminal law by renaming the offense of "inappropriate communication with a child" to "sexual grooming." It specifies that a person commits sexual grooming if they engage in a pattern of repeated or continuous contact with an individual whom they believe to be a child less than 14 years of age, with the intent to make the individual less resistant to future unlawful sexual conduct.

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Sponsors

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Democratic CaucusRepublican Caucus

Roll Call Votes

48 Yea

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0 Nay

1 Not Voting

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1 Absent

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Calendar

Feb 18

10:30 AM

House Courts and Criminal Code Hearing

Jan 20

10:00 AM

Senate Corrections and Criminal Law Hearing

History

Mar 5

Senate

Signed by the Governor

Mar 5

Senate

Public Law 111

Feb 27

Senate

Signed by the President Pro Tempore