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HB 992 Engrossed 2016 Regular Session Connick
Abstract: Amends the definitions of "aggravated offense" and "sexual offense against a victim who
is a minor" to include crime against nature.
Present law provides for sex offender notification and registration requirements. Those
requirements, and the time period in which an offender must comply with those requirements, differ
depending upon the offense committed. Persons convicted of an "aggravated offense" must comply
with these requirements for their lifetime and persons convicted of a "sexual offense against a victim
who is a minor" must comply for 25 years. Other sex offenders must comply for 15 years.
Present law defines "aggravated offense" and "sexual offense against a victim who is a minor" for
the purposes of present law.
Proposed law retains the provisions of present law and adds the crime against nature to those
definitions, depending upon which element of the crime the sex offender is convicted.
(Amends R.S. 15:541(2)(c)(i), (k)-(q) and (25)(n); Adds R.S. 15:541(2)(r) and (25)(o))