Kentucky 2022 Regular Session Status: Passed House Bipartisan · 6 R · 1 D cosponsors

HB 262 — AN ACT relating to sex crimes.

Last action — posted for passage for concurrence in Senate Committee Substitute (1)

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    Passed House
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    Passed Senate
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    To Executive
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    Enacted

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Summary

Amend KRS 530.020 to specify the family relationships covered in the statute; to specify that a person who does not consent to incest is a victim; make changes to the enhancement requirements.

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UNOFFICIAL COPY 22 RS BR 339 AN ACT relating to incest.
UNOFFICIAL COPY 22 RS HB 262/GA AN ACT relating to sex crimes.
(1) A person is guilty of incest when he or she has sexual intercourse or deviate sexual intercourse, as defined in KRS 510.010, with a person whom he or she knows to be his or her parent, child, grandparent, grandchild, great grandparent, great grandchild[an ancestor, descendant], uncle, aunt, nephew, niece, brother, [or] sister, or first cousin.
(1) A person is guilty of incest when he or she has sexual intercourse or deviate sexual intercourse, as defined in KRS 510.010, with a person whom he or she knows to be his or her parent, child, grandparent, grandchild, great-grandparent, great- grandchild[an ancestor, descendant], uncle, aunt, nephew, niece, brother, [or] sister, or first cousin.
(2) (a) Incest is a Class C felony if the act is committed by consenting adults.
(2) (a) Incest is a Class C felony if the act is committed by consenting persons[adults].
or 3.[2.]With[On] a person[victim ]who is:
or 3.[2.]With[On] a person[victim] who is:
With[Committed on] a person[victim] less than twelve (12) years of age by a person three (3) or more years older;
With[Committed on] a person who is[victim] less than twelve (12) years of age;
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Section 2.
KRS 510.010 is amended to read as follows:
Page 1 of 6 HB026210.100 - 339 - XXXX GA UNOFFICIAL COPY 22 RS HB 262/GA The following definitions apply in this chapter unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) "Deviate sexual intercourse" means any act of sexual gratification involving the sex organs of one person and the mouth or anus of another;
or penetration of the anus of one person by any body part or a foreign object manipulated by another person.
"Deviate sexual intercourse" does not include penetration of the anus by any body part or a foreign object in the course of the performance of generally recognized health-care practices;
(2) "Forcible compulsion" means physical force or threat of physical force, express or implied, which places a person in fear of immediate death, physical injury to self or another person, fear of the immediate kidnap of self or another person, or fear of any offense under this chapter.
Physical resistance on the part of the victim shall not be necessary to meet this definition;
(3) "Mental illness" means a diagnostic term that covers many clinical categories, typically including behavioral or psychological symptoms, or both, along with impairment of personal and social function, and specifically defined and clinically interpreted through reference to criteria contained in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (Third Edition) and any subsequent revision thereto, of the American Psychiatric Association;
(4) "Individual with an intellectual disability" means a person with significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior and manifested during the developmental period, as defined in KRS Chapter 202B;
(5) "Mentally incapacitated" means that a person is rendered temporarily incapable of appraising or controlling his or her conduct as a result of the influence of an intoxicating substance administered to him or her without his or her consent or as a result of any other act committed upon him or her without his or her consent;
(6) "Physically helpless" means that a person is unconscious or for any other reason is Page 2 of 6 HB026210.100 - 339 - XXXX GA UNOFFICIAL COPY 22 RS HB 262/GA physically unable to communicate unwillingness to an act.
"Physically helpless" also includes a person who has been rendered unconscious or for any other reason is physically unable to communicate an unwillingness to an act as a result of the influence of a controlled substance, alcohol, or legend drug;
(7) "Sexual contact" means any touching of the sexual or other intimate parts of a person done for the purpose of gratifying the sexual desire of either party;
(8) "Sexual intercourse" means sexual intercourse in its ordinary sense and includes penetration of the sex organs of one person by any body part or a foreign object manipulated by another person.
Sexual intercourse occurs upon any penetration, however slight;
emission is not required.
"Sexual intercourse" does not include penetration of the sex organ by any body part or a foreign object in the course of the performance of generally recognized health-care practices;
(9) "Foreign object" means anything used in commission of a sexual act other than the person of the actor;
(10) "Registrant" has the same meaning as in KRS 17.500;
and (11) "Adult intermediary" means a person who is age eighteen (18) years or older, who communicates with another for the purpose of procuring or promoting the use of a minor in violation of KRS 510.155.
Section 3.
KRS 510.060 is amended to read as follows:
(1) A person is guilty of rape in the third degree when:
(a) Being twenty-one (21) years old or more, he or she engages in sexual intercourse with another person less than sixteen (16) years old;
(b) Being at least ten (10) years older than a person who is sixteen (16) or seventeen (17) years old at the time of sexual intercourse, he or she engages in sexual intercourse with the person;
(c) Being twenty-one (21) years old or more, he or she engages in sexual intercourse with another person less than eighteen (18) years old and for Page 3 of 6 HB026210.100 - 339 - XXXX GA UNOFFICIAL COPY 22 RS HB 262/GA whom he or she provides a foster family home as defined in KRS 600.020;
(d) Being a person in a position of authority or position of special trust, as defined in KRS 532.045, he or she engages in sexual intercourse with a minor under eighteen (18) years old with whom he or she comes into contact as a result of that position;
(e) Being a jailer, or an employee, contractor, vendor, or volunteer of the Department of Corrections, Department of Juvenile Justice, or a detention facility as defined in KRS 520.010, or of an entity under contract with either department or a detention facility for the custody, supervision, evaluation, or treatment of offenders, he or she subjects a person who he or she knows is incarcerated, supervised, evaluated, or treated by the Department of Corrections, Department of Juvenile Justice, detention facility, or contracting entity, to sexual intercourse;[ or] (f) Being a peace officer, while serving in his or her official capacity, he or she subjects a person who the officer:
1.
Arrested, held in custody, or investigated for commission of a traffic or criminal offense;
or 2.
Knew or should have known was under arrest, held in custody, or being investigated for commission of a traffic or criminal offense;
to sexual intercourse;
or (g) He or she engages in sexual intercourse with another person knowing that the other person's ability to appraise the nature of or control his or her own conduct is substantially impaired.
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(2) Rape in the third degree is a Class D felony.
Section 4.
KRS 510.090 is amended to read as follows:
(1) A person is guilty of sodomy in the third degree when:
(a) Being twenty-one (21) years old or more, he or she engages in deviate sexual Page 4 of 6 HB026210.100 - 339 - XXXX GA UNOFFICIAL COPY 22 RS HB 262/GA intercourse with another person less than sixteen (16) years old;
(b) Being at least ten (10) years older than a person who is sixteen (16) or seventeen (17) years old at the time of deviate sexual intercourse, he or she engages in deviate sexual intercourse with the person;
(c) Being twenty-one (21) years old or more, he or she engages in deviate sexual intercourse with another person less than eighteen (18) years old and for whom he or she provides a foster family home as defined in KRS 600.020;
(d) Being a person in a position of authority or position of special trust, as defined in KRS 532.045, he or she engages in deviate sexual intercourse with a minor less than eighteen (18) years old with whom he or she comes into contact as a result of that position;
(e) Being a jailer, or an employee, contractor, vendor, or volunteer of the Department of Corrections, Department of Juvenile Justice, or a detention facility as defined in KRS 520.010, or of an entity under contract with either department or a detention facility for the custody, supervision, evaluation, or treatment of offenders, he or she subjects a person who he or she knows is incarcerated, supervised, evaluated, or treated by the Department of Corrections, Department of Juvenile Justice, detention facility, or contracting entity, to deviate sexual intercourse;[ or] (f) Being a peace officer, while serving in his or her official capacity, he or she subjects a person who the officer:
1.
Arrested, held in custody, or investigated for commission of a traffic or criminal offense;
or 2.
Knew or should have known was under arrest, held in custody, or being investigated for commission of a traffic or criminal offense;
to deviate sexual intercourse;
or (g) He or she engages in deviate sexual intercourse with another person Page 5 of 6 HB026210.100 - 339 - XXXX GA UNOFFICIAL COPY 22 RS HB 262/GA knowing that the other person's ability to appraise the nature of or control his or her own conduct is substantially impaired.
(2) Sodomy in the third degree is a Class D felony.
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Action History

  1. posted for passage for concurrence in Senate Committee Substitute (1)

  2. taken from Rules (H)

  3. to Rules (H)

  4. received in House

  5. 3rd reading, passed 35-1 with Committee Substitute (1)

  6. posted for passage in the Consent Orders of the Day for Tuesday, March 29, 2022

  7. 2nd reading, to Rules as a consent bill

  8. reported favorably, 1st reading, to Consent Calendar with Committee Substitute (1)

  9. to Judiciary (S)

  10. to Committee on Committees (S)

  11. received in Senate

  12. 3rd reading, passed 88-0 with Committee Substitute (1) and Committee Amendment (1-title)

  13. posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Monday, January 24, 2022

  14. 2nd reading, to Rules

  15. reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1) and Committee Amendment (1-title)

  16. to Judiciary (H)

  17. to Committee on Committees (H)

  18. introduced in House

Sponsors

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11 sponsors · 0 co-sponsors · 127 not signed on

Sponsors (11)

Co-sponsors (0)

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Not signed on (127)

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Votes

PASS HB 262 w/ scs1

Passed 35 Yea · 1 Nay · 2 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 16102
Republican 17000
Democrat 2000
Total 35102
% of votes cast 92%3%0%5%
How each member voted (38)
Member Party Vote
Alvarado — Yea
Parrett — Yea
Turner — Yea
Hornback — Yea
Schroder — Yea
Smith — Yea
Westerfield — Yea
Castlen — Yea
McGarvey — Yea
Southworth — Yea
Meredith — Yea
Thayer — Yea
Yates — Yea
Nemes — Yea
Thomas — Yea
Schickel — Nay
Embry — Not Voting
Kerr — Not Voting
Harper Angel — Yea
Gerald A. Neal Democrat Yea
Karen Berg Democrat Yea
Brandon J. Storm Republican Yea
Christian McDaniel Republican Yea
Danny Carroll Republican Yea
David P. Givens Republican Yea
Donald Douglas Republican Yea
Jared Carpenter Republican Yea
Jason Howell Republican Yea
Jimmy Higdon Republican Yea
Julie Raque Adams Republican Yea
Max Wise Republican Yea
Mike Wilson Republican Yea
Phillip Wheeler Republican Yea
Rick Girdler Republican Yea
Robby Mills Republican Yea
Robert Stivers Republican Yea
Robin L. Webb Republican Yea
Stephen West Republican Yea

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Pass

Passed 88 Yea · 0 Nay · 11 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Republican 51002
Unaffiliated 32006
Democrat 5003
Total 880011
% of votes cast 89%0%0%11%
How each member voted (99)
Member Party Vote
Jenkins — Yea
Sheldon — Yea
Minter — Yea
Smith — Yea
Bechler — Yea
Fischer — Yea
Bentley — Yea
Nemes — Yea
Koenig — Yea
Thomas — Yea
Pratt — Yea
Timoney — Yea
Prunty — Yea
Graham — Yea
Raymond — Yea
Burch — Yea
Webber — Yea
Massey — Yea
Cantrell — Yea
Hatton — Yea
Westrom — Yea
Heath — Yea
McCoy — Yea
Santoro — Yea
Wheatley — Yea
Dixon — Yea
Scott — Yea
Donohue — Yea
Meredith — Yea
DuPlessis — Not Voting
Palumbo — Not Voting
Rowland — Not Voting
Flood — Not Voting
Huff R — Not Voting
Kirk McCormick — Yea
Miller C — Not Voting
Miller J — Yea
Stevenson C — Yea
Al Gentry Democrat Not Voting
Ashley Tackett Laferty Democrat Yea
George Brown Jr. Democrat Yea
Lisa Willner Democrat Yea
Mary Lou Marzian Democrat Not Voting
Nima Kulkarni Democrat Yea
Pamela Stevenson Democrat Yea
Tina Bojanowski Democrat Not Voting
Aaron Reed Republican Not Voting
Adam Bowling Republican Yea
Bill Wesley Republican Yea
Bobby McCool Republican Yea
Chris Freeland Republican Yea
Chris Fugate Republican Yea
DJ Johnson Republican Yea
Daniel Elliott Republican Yea
Daniel Fister Republican Yea
David Hale Republican Yea
David Meade Republican Yea
David W. Osborne Republican Yea
Deanna Gordon Republican Yea
Derek Lewis Republican Yea
Felicia Rabourn Republican Yea
James Tipton Republican Yea
Jason Petrie Republican Yea
Jennifer Decker Republican Yea
Jim Gooch Jr. Republican Yea
John Blanton Republican Yea
Josh Branscum Republican Yea
Josh Bray Republican Yea
Josh Calloway Republican Yea
Ken Fleming Republican Yea
Ken Upchurch Republican Yea
Kim Banta Republican Yea
Kim King Republican Yea
Kimberly Poore Moser Republican Yea
Mark Hart Republican Yea
Mary Beth Imes Republican Yea
Matt Lockett Republican Yea
Matthew Koch Republican Yea
Michael Sarge Pollock Republican Yea
Myron Dossett Republican Yea
Nancy Tate Republican Yea
Patrick Flannery Republican Yea
Randy Bridges Republican Yea
Richard White Republican Yea
Ryan Dotson Republican Yea
Samara Heavrin Republican Yea
Savannah Maddox Republican Yea
Scott Lewis Republican Yea
Scott Sharp Republican Yea
Shane Baker Republican Yea
Shawn McPherson Republican Yea
Steve Bratcher Republican Yea
Steve Riley Republican Yea
Steven Rudy Republican Yea
Suzanne Miles Republican Not Voting
T.J. Roberts Republican Yea
Thomas Huff Republican Yea
Timmy Truett Republican Yea
William Lawrence Republican Yea

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Frequently asked questions

What does HB 262 do?
Amend KRS 530.020 to specify the family relationships covered in the statute; to specify that a person who does not consent to incest is a victim; make changes to the enhancement requirements.
Who sponsors HB 262?
HB 262 is sponsored by C. Massey, Kim Banta (Republican), John Blanton (Republican), Tina Bojanowski (Democrat), Daniel Elliott (Republican), Samara Heavrin (Republican), Savannah Maddox (Republican), C. McCoy, Kimberly Poore Moser (Republican), S. Sheldon, and S. Westrom.
What is the current status of HB 262?
This bill died with 2022 Regular Session. It reached “Passed House” and never advanced before the session ended, so it can no longer move — a new version would have to be reintroduced in the current session.
Where can I track HB 262?
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