Grooming.

Grooming. Adds a facility or event that provides entertainment or programming primarily directed toward a child less than 18 years of age to the list of facilities at which a sexually violent predator or an offender against children may not work or volunteer. Adds entering a facility or location holding an event that provides entertainment or programming primarily directed toward a child less than 18 years of age by a serious sex offender to the crime of unlawful entry by a serious sex offender. Renames the offense of "inappropriate communication with a child" to "sexual grooming", and provides (in addition to the current elements of the offense) that a person commits the offense if the person engages in a pattern of repeated or continuous contact with an individual whom the person believes to be a child less than 14 years of age, with the intent to condition the individual to be less resistant to future sexual conduct or sexual activity. Specifies that "computer network" includes cellular telephones.

Passed on 3/5/26

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Sponsors

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Roll Call Votes

48 Yea

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0 Nay

1 Not Voting

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1 Absent

D

Calendar

Jan 20

10:00 AM

Senate Corrections and Criminal Law Hearing

Feb 18

10:30 AM

House Courts and Criminal Code Hearing