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MI HB4431

Bill

Status

Introduced

4/19/2023

Primary Sponsor

Noah Arbit

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Origin

House of Representatives

102nd Legislature

AI Summary

  • Removes the prohibition on "crime against nature" or sodomy between consenting adults by eliminating language criminalizing sexual acts "with mankind"

  • Retains criminal penalties for bestiality (sexual acts with animals): felony punishable by up to 15 years imprisonment, or indeterminate sentence with minimum 1 day and maximum life if offender was a sexually delinquent person at time of offense

  • Changes prosecution standard for bestiality cases to require only proof of sexual penetration, however slight, without need to prove emission

  • Updates statutory language for gender-neutral terminology ("individual" instead of "person," "is" instead of "shall")

  • Takes effect 90 days after enactment

Legislative Description

Crimes: other; crime of sodomy between consenting adults; eliminate. Amends secs. 158 & 159 of 1931 PA 328 (MCL 750.158 & 750.159).

Crimes: criminal sexual conduct

Last Action

Placed On Third Reading

12/11/2024

Committee Referrals

Criminal Justice4/19/2023

Full Bill Text

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