HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	1908
TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE, 2016
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

relating to the penal code.

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

     SECTION 1.  Section 707-750, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending the definition of "sexual conduct" in subsection (2) to read as follows:

     ""Sexual conduct" means [acts of] actual or simulated sexual intercourse, including genital-genital contact, oral-genital contact, anal-genital contact, or oral-anal contact, whether between persons of the same or opposite sex, masturbation, [homosexuality, lesbianism,] bestiality, [sexual penetration,] deviate sexual intercourse, sadomasochistic abuse, or lascivious exhibition of the genital or pubic area of [a minor.] any person."

     SECTION 2.  Section 707-751, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending the definition of "sexual conduct" in subsection (2) to read as follows:

     ""Sexual conduct" means [acts of] actual or simulated sexual intercourse, including genital-genital contact, oral-genital contact, anal-genital contact, or oral-anal contact, whether between persons of the same or opposite sex, masturbation, [homosexuality, lesbianism,] bestiality, [sexual penetration,] deviate sexual intercourse, sadomasochistic abuse, or lascivious exhibition of the genital or pubic area of [a minor.] any person."

     SECTION 3.  Section 707-752, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending the definition of "sexual conduct" in subsection (2) to read as follows:

     ""Sexual conduct" means [acts of] actual or simulated sexual intercourse, including genital-genital contact, oral-genital contact, anal-genital contact, or oral-anal contact, whether between persons of the same or opposite sex, masturbation, [homosexuality, lesbianism,] bestiality, [sexual penetration,] deviate sexual intercourse, sadomasochistic abuse, or lascivious exhibition of the genital or pubic area of [a minor.] any person."

     SECTION 4.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 5.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:

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Report Title:

Sexual Conduct; Promotion of Child Abuse

Description:

Redefines "sexual conduct" as that term is used in the offense of promotion of child abuse in the first, second, and third degrees.

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