SB354 Summary

• Renames "deviate sexual intercourse" to "sexual battery" and redefines sexual contact to include touching through clothing without regard to marital status.

• Expands the definition of "incapacitation" to consolidate mental defectiveness, mental incapacitation, and physical helplessness into one broad category, and expands "forcible compulsion" to include moral, psychological, and intellectual force.

• Removes gender restrictions from certain sexual offenses, allows sexual contact to constitute sexual misconduct, and adds infliction of physical injury to sexual organs as an offense under sexual torture.

• Designates convictions of foster parents engaging in sexual acts, sexual contact, or solicitation of sexual contact with foster children as sex crimes requiring registration and notification.

• Authorizes sexually transmitted disease testing for crimes where victims were compelled to engage in sexual activity by force, with testing required within 48 hours of indictment service if defendant is in custody.