HOUSE BILL NO. 1834 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE KELLEY.
4020H.01I JOSEPH ENGLER, Chief Clerk
AN ACT To repeal section 566.151, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the offense of enticement of a child, with penalty provisions.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Section 566.151, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu 2 thereof, to be known as section 566.151, to read as follows: 566.151. 1. A person twenty-one years of age or older commits the offense of 2 enticement of a child if he or she persuades, solicits, coaxes, entices, or lures whether by 3 words, actions or through communication via the internet or any electronic communication, 4 any person who is less than [seventeen] eighteen years of age for the purpose of engaging in 5 sexual conduct. 6 2. It is not a defense to a prosecution for a violation of this section that the other 7 person was a peace officer masquerading as a minor. 8 3. Enticement of a child or an attempt to commit enticement of a child is a felony for 9 which the authorized term of imprisonment shall be not less than five years and not more than 10 thirty years. No person convicted under this section shall be eligible for parole, probation, 11 conditional release, or suspended imposition or execution of sentence for a period of five 12 calendar years. ✔
EXPLANATION — Matter enclosed in bold-faced brackets [thus] in the above bill is not enacted and is intended to be omitted from the law. Matter in bold-face type in the above bill is proposed language.
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