HB369 Summary

• Amends Section 13A-6-82 of the Alabama Code to clarify the definition of "sexual contact" in the crime of a school employee having sexual contact with a student under age 19.

• Changes the definition of sexual contact from "touching of the sexual or other intimate parts of a student" to "any touching of the sexual or other intimate parts of another person" done for the purpose of gratifying sexual desire of either party.

• Expands the crime to include situations where a school employee asks or solicits a student to initiate sexual contact, closing a potential loophole in existing law.

• Maintains that consent is not a defense to a charge and classifies the offense as a Class A misdemeanor.

• Becomes effective on the first day of the third month following passage and gubernatorial approval.