REPORT TITLE:
Age of Consent For Sex


DESCRIPTION:
Raises the age of consent to legally engage in sexual relations
from 14 to 18 years of age.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                                                             
THE SENATE                              S.B. NO.           986
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 1999                                     
STATE OF HAWAII                                                 
                                                             
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                   A  BILL  FOR  AN  ACT

RELATING TO CONSENT.



BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 1      SECTION 1.  Chapter 707-730, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is
 
 2 amended by amending subsection (1) to read as follows:
 
 3      "(1)  A person commits the offense of sexual assault in the
 
 4 first degree if:
 
 5      (a)  The person knowingly subjects another person to an act
 
 6           of sexual penetration by strong compulsion;
 
 7      (b)  The person knowingly subjects to sexual penetration
 
 8           another person who is less than [fourteen] eighteen
 
 9           years old; provided this paragraph shall not be
 
10           construed to prohibit practitioners licensed under
 
11           chapter 453, 455, or 460, from performing any act
 
12           within their respective practices."
 
13      SECTION 2.  Chapter 707-732, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is
 
14 amended by amending subsection (1) to read as follows:
 
15      "(1)  A person commits the offense of sexual assault in the
 
16 third degree if:
 
17      (a)  The person recklessly subjects another person to an act
 
18           of sexual penetration by compulsion;
 
19      (b)  The person knowingly subjects to sexual contact another
 

 
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 1           person who is less than [fourteen] eighteen years old
 
 2           or causes such a person to have sexual contact with the
 
 3           person;
 
 4      (c)  The person knowingly subjects to sexual contact another
 
 5           person who is mentally defective, mentally
 
 6           incapacitated, or physically helpless, or causes such a
 
 7           person to have sexual contact with the actor; or
 
 8      (d)  The person, while employed in a state correctional
 
 9           facility, knowingly subjects to sexual contact an
 
10           imprisoned person or causes such person to have sexual
 
11           contact with the actor;
 
12      (e)  The person knowingly, by strong compulsion, has sexual
 
13           contact with another person or causes another person to
 
14           have sexual contact with the actor; provided that
 
15           paragraphs (b), (c), and (d) shall not be construed to
 
16           prohibit practitioners licensed under chapter 453, 455,
 
17           or 460, from performing any act within their respective
 
18           practices."
 
19      SECTION 3.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed.
 
20 New statutory material is underscored.
 
21      SECTION 4.  This Act does not affect rights and duties that
 
22 have matured, penalties that were incurred, and proceedings that
 
23 were begun, prior to its effective date.
 

 
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 1      SECTION 5.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
 
 2 
 
 3                           INTRODUCED BY:  _______________________