SENATE BILL No. 627

 

 

September 8, 2011, Introduced by Senator SCHUITMAKER and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

 

 

     A bill to amend 1953 PA 232, entitled

 

"Corrections code of 1953,"

 

(MCL 791.201 to 791.285) by adding section 69.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 69. (1) A prisoner shall not be permitted to receive or

 

possess sexually explicit material.

 

     (2) As used in this section, "sexually explicit material"

 

means either of the following:

 

     (a) Any material that visually depicts the genetalia or anus

 

of a male or female human being or representation of a male or

 

female human being or a nipple or areola of a female human being or

 

representation of a female human being.

 

     (b) Any material that describes a sexual act. As used in this

 

subdivision, "sexual act" means 1 or more of the following:


 

     (i) The intentional touching of an individual's intimate parts

 

or the intentional touching of the clothing covering the immediate

 

area of an individual's intimate parts, if that intentional

 

touching can reasonably be construed as being for the purpose of

 

sexual arousal or gratification, done for a sexual purpose, or in a

 

sexual manner for:

 

     (A) Revenge.

 

     (B) To inflict humiliation.

 

     (C) Out of anger.

 

     (ii) Sexual intercourse, cunnilingus, fellatio, anal

 

intercourse, or any other intrusion, however slight, of any part of

 

an individual's body or of an object into the genital or anal

 

openings of another individual's body.

 

     (iii) Bestiality.

 

     (iv) Masturbation.