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HB2578: Children; expands current crime of taking indecent liberties therewith.
Chief Patron
Del.
Steve Shannon (D-35)
Steve Shannon
(D-35)
Vienna, VA
Served: 2004–
Progress
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Status
Bill is Dead
Summary
Indecent liberties with children; penalties. Provides that it is a Class 5 felony if a person 18 years of age or older, with lascivious intent, knowingly and intentionally proposes that a child under the age of 15 years feels or fondles the child's own sexual or genital parts. Taking indecent liberties with a child by a person in a supervisory or custodial relationship is amended in the same way, but it applies to an unemancipated child under the age of 18 and is a Class 6 felony.
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