Report Title:

Sexual Assault; Age of Consent

Description:

Makes permanent the offenses of sexual assault in the 1st degree and sexual assault in the 3rd degree for persons who knowingly engage in sexual penetration with minors at least 14 years old but less than 16 years old, if the offender is not less than 5 years older than and is not married to the minor.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

562

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2003

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to sexual assault.

 

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

SECTION 1. Act 1, Second Special Session Laws of Hawaii 2001, is amended by amending section 7 to read as follows:

"SECTION 7. This Act shall take effect upon its approval [and shall be repealed on June 30, 2003; provided that sections 707-730(1) and 707-732(1), Hawaii Revised Statutes, are reenacted in the form in which they read on the day before the approval of this Act]."

SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect on June 29, 2003.

INTRODUCED BY:

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