Enacts the Child Sexual Abuse Reform Act; provides for the elimination and extension of certain statutes of limitations related to sexual offenses against children, the expansion of reporting requirements in cases of such offenses, and the expansion of the central child abuse and maltreatment register.
Enacts the Child Sexual Abuse Reform Act; provides for the elimination and extension of certain statutes of limitations related to sexual offenses against children, the expansion of reporting requirements in cases of such offenses, and the expansion of the central child abuse and maltreatment register.
Enacts "Kimberly's Law" establishing certain sex offenses, including sex offenses against children; relates to criminal sentencing for defendants convicted of certain sex offenses; repeals certain laws relating to sex offenses against children.
Enacts "Kimberly's Law" establishing certain sex offenses, including sex offenses against children; relates to criminal sentencing for defendants convicted of certain sex offenses; repeals certain laws relating to sex offenses against children.
Makes the commission of rape, a criminal sexual act, aggravated sexual abuse or course of sexual conduct against a child less than 12 years of age or against a child less than 14 years of age by a person 21 years old or more a class A-I felony; eliminates references to such offenses in less severe crimes; includes such offenses within murder in the second degree for purposes of sentencing to life imprisonment without parole for murder committed in the course of committing such sex offenses against a child; designates such sex offenses against a child as sexually violent offenses for the purposes of sex offender registration; requires every sex offender convicted of such an offense to be subject to lifetime electronic monitoring by the division of criminal justice services upon release from prison.
Relates to improvements in the state central register of child abuse and maltreatment; allows the central register to receive electronic reports alleging child abuse or maltreatment; provides for a single statewide internet address that all persons, whether mandated by the law or not, may use to send electronic communications alleging child abuse or maltreatment.