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General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 5365
January Session, 2021
LCO No. 722
Referred to Committee on JUDICIARY
Introduced by:
REP. GILCHREST, 18th Dist.
AN ACT CONCERNING SEXUAL ASSAULT IN THE ABSENCE OF
CONSENT.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
That section 53a-65 of the general statutes be amended to codify the 1
term "consent" to mean a person's capable, deliberate and voluntary 2
agreement to or concurrence to engage in a specific act of sexual 3
intercourse or sexual contact; and that section 53a-71 of the general 4
statutes be amended to make a person guilty of sexual assault in the 5
second degree when such person engages in sexual intercourse with 6
another person and such other person does not consent to such act. 7
Statement of Purpose:
To make sexual intercourse without consent a crime.