HOUSE BILL No. 5041

 

July 19, 2007, Introduced by Reps. Meadows, Alma Smith, Corriveau, LeBlanc and Hammel and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

     A bill to amend 1931 PA 328, entitled

 

"The Michigan penal code,"

 

by amending section 520c (MCL 750.520c), as amended by 2006 PA 171.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 520c. (1) A person is guilty of criminal sexual conduct

 

in the second degree if the person engages in sexual contact with

 

another person and if any of the following circumstances exists:

 

     (a) That other person is under 13 years of age.

 

     (b) That other person is at least 13 but less than 16 years of

 

age and any of the following:

 

     (i) The actor is a member of the same household as the victim.

 

     (ii) The actor is related by blood or affinity to the fourth

 

degree to the victim.

 


     (iii) The actor is in a position of authority over the victim

 

and the actor used this authority to coerce the victim to submit.

 

     (iv) The actor is a teacher, substitute teacher, or

 

administrator of the public or nonpublic school in which that other

 

person is enrolled.

 

     (c) Sexual contact occurs under circumstances involving the

 

commission of any other felony.

 

     (d) The actor is aided or abetted by 1 or more other persons

 

and either of the following circumstances exists:

 

     (i) The actor knows or has reason to know that the victim is

 

mentally incapable, mentally incapacitated, or physically helpless.

 

     (ii) The actor uses force or coercion to accomplish the sexual

 

contact. Force or coercion includes, but is not limited to, any of

 

the circumstances listed in section 520b(1)(f).

 

     (e) The actor is armed with a weapon, or any article used or

 

fashioned in a manner to lead a person to reasonably believe it to

 

be a weapon.

 

     (f) The actor causes personal injury to the victim and force

 

or coercion is used to accomplish the sexual contact. Force or

 

coercion includes, but is not limited to, any of the circumstances

 

listed in section 520b(1)(f).

 

     (g) The actor causes personal injury to the victim and the

 

actor knows or has reason to know that the victim is mentally

 

incapable, mentally incapacitated, or physically helpless.

 

     (h) That other person is mentally incapable, mentally

 

disabled, mentally incapacitated, or physically helpless, and any

 

of the following:

 


     (i) The actor is related to the victim by blood or affinity to

 

the fourth degree.

 

     (ii) The actor is in a position of authority over the victim

 

and used this authority to coerce the victim to submit.

 

     (i) That other person is under the jurisdiction of the

 

department of corrections and the actor is an employee or a

 

contractual employee of, or a volunteer with, the department of

 

corrections who knows that the other person is under the

 

jurisdiction of the department of corrections.

 

     (j) That other person is under the jurisdiction of the

 

department of corrections and the actor is an employee or a

 

contractual employee of, or a volunteer with, a private vendor that

 

operates a youth correctional facility under section 20g of the

 

corrections code of 1953, 1953 PA 232, MCL 791.220g, who knows that

 

the other person is under the jurisdiction of the department of

 

corrections.

 

     (k) That other person is a prisoner or probationer under the

 

jurisdiction of a county for purposes of imprisonment or a work

 

program or other probationary program and the actor is an employee

 

or a contractual employee of or a volunteer with the county or the

 

department of corrections who knows that the other person is under

 

the county's jurisdiction and who uses his or her position of

 

authority over the victim to coerce the victim to submit.

 

     (l) The actor knows or has reason to know that a court has

 

detained the victim in a facility while the victim is awaiting a

 

trial or hearing, or committed the victim to a facility as a result

 

of the victim having been found responsible for committing an act

 


that would be a crime if committed by an adult, and the actor is an

 

employee or contractual employee of, or a volunteer with, the

 

facility in which the victim is detained or to which the victim was

 

committed.

 

     (2) Criminal sexual conduct in the second degree is a felony

 

punishable as follows:

 

     (a) By imprisonment for not more than 15 years.

 

     (b) In addition to the penalty specified in subdivision (a),

 

the court shall sentence the defendant to lifetime electronic

 

monitoring under section 520n if the violation involved sexual

 

contact committed by an individual 17 years of age or older against

 

an individual less than 13 years of age.