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Adjourned sine die. The bill was pending when the session ended, so it did not pass.

Last action · February 4, 2025

To Judiciary (H)

Introduced January 7, 2025

House

Adjourned Sine Die

2025 Regular Session

HB97

AN ACT relating to sex crimes.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 510 to establish the offense of traveling into the Commonwealth to commit a sexual offense; provide that no person shall be convicted of this offense and any offense specified in KRS 506.010, 506.030, 506.040, or 506.080 for a single course of conduct; provide that this section is intended to be a separate offense and shall be punished in addition to violations of sex crimes; provide that traveling into the Commonwealth to commit a sexual offense shall be punished at the same felony classification level as the underlying offense.

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This bill would make it a separate crime to travel into Kentucky with the intent to commit a sexual offense. The punishment for this new offense would match the severity level of the underlying sex crime a person intended to commit. It is designed to add an additional criminal charge on top of the underlying offense itself, though a person could not be convicted of both this offense and certain related conspiracy or attempt charges…

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