HOUSE BILL NO. 4431
April 19, 2023, Introduced by Reps. Arbit, Dievendorf, Rheingans, Byrnes, MacDonell, Hill,
Wegela, Paiz, Steckloff, Hood, Weiss, Snyder, Hope, Stone, Martus, Fitzgerald, Wilson,
Brabec, Price, Tsernoglou, Andrews, Scott, Rogers, Morgan, Morse, Glanville, Koleszar and
Skaggs and referred to the Committee on Criminal Justice.
A bill to amend 1931 PA 328, entitled
"The Michigan penal code,"
by amending sections 158 and 159 (MCL 750.158 and 750.159).
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
1 CHAPTER XXV
2 CRIME AGAINST NATURE OR SODOMY BESTIALITY
3 Sec. 158. Any person An individual who shall commit the
4 abominable and detestable crime against nature either with mankind
5 or with any animal shall be commits bestiality is guilty of a
6 felony, punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for not more
7 than 15 years, or if such person the individual was at the time of
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1 the said offense a sexually delinquent person , may be at the time
2 the individual committed bestiality, the individual is guilty of a
3 felony punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for an
4 indeterminate term, the minimum of which shall must be not less
5 than 1 day and the maximum of which shall be is life.
6 Sec. 159. In any prosecution for sodomy, it shall not be
7 bestiality, it is not necessary to prove emission, and any sexual
8 penetration, however slight, shall be deemed is sufficient to
9 complete the crime specified in the next preceding section .158.
10 Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days
11 after the date it is enacted into law.
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Statutes affected:
House Introduced Bill: 750.158, 750.159