Bill Text: HI HB2503 | 2014 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Practitioners License; Limited authority or validation

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-27 - Referred to HLT, CPC, JUD, referral sheet 7 [HB2503 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2014-HB2503-Introduced.html

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

2503

TWENTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURE, 2014

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

RELATING TO SEXUAL ASSAULTS.

 

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 


SECTION 1.  Section 707-730, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

     §707-730  Sexual assault in the first degree.  (1)  A person commits the offense of sexual assault in the first degree if:

    (a)   The person knowingly subjects another person to an act of sexual penetration by strong compulsion;

    (b)   The person knowingly engages in sexual penetration with another person who is less than fourteen years old;

    (c)   The person knowingly engages in sexual penetration with a person who is at least fourteen years old but less than sixteen years old; provided that:

         (i)  The person is not less than five years older than the minor; and

        (ii)  The person is not legally married to the minor;

    (d)   The person knowingly subjects to sexual penetration another person who is mentally defective; or

    (e)   The person knowingly subjects to sexual penetration another person who is mentally incapacitated or physically helpless as a result of the influence of a substance that the actor knowingly caused to be administered to the other person without the other person's consent.

Paragraphs (b) and (c) shall not be construed to prohibit practitioners licensed under chapter 453, [or] 455, 457, or 461J from performing any authorized or valid procedure [act] within the scope of their respective licensed practice practices.

     (2)  Sexual assault in the first degree is a class A felony.

     SECTION 2.  Section 707-730, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

     §707-731  Sexual assault in the second degree.  (1)  A person commits the offense of sexual assault in the second degree if:

    (a)   The person knowingly subjects another person to an act of sexual penetration by compulsion;

    (b)   The person knowingly subjects to sexual penetration another person who is mentally incapacitated or physically helpless; or

         (i)  In a state correctional facility;

        (ii)  By a private company providing services at a correctional facility;

       (iii)  By a private company providing community-based residential services to persons committed to the director of public safety and having received notice of this statute;

        (iv)  By a private correctional facility operating in the State of Hawaii; or

         (v)  As a law enforcement officer as defined in section 710-1000(13),

          knowingly subjects to sexual penetration an imprisoned person, a person confined to a detention facility, a person committed to the director of public safety, a person residing in a private correctional facility operating in the State of Hawaii, or a person in custody; provided that paragraph (b) shall not be construed to prohibit practitioners licensed under chapter 453, or 455, 457, or 461J from performing any authorized or valid procedure [act] within the scope of their respective licensed practice [practices]; and further provided that this paragraph shall not be construed to prohibit a law enforcement officer from performing a lawful search pursuant to a warrant or exception to the warrant clause.

     (2)  Sexual assault in the second degree is a class B felony.

SECTION 3.  Section 707-730, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

§707-732  Sexual assault in the third degree.  (1)  A person commits the offense of sexual assault in the third degree if:

    (a)   The person recklessly subjects another person to an act of sexual penetration by compulsion;

    (b)   The person knowingly subjects to sexual contact another person who is less than fourteen years old or causes such a person to have sexual contact with the person;

    (c)   The person knowingly engages in sexual contact with a person who is at least fourteen years old but less than sixteen years old or causes the minor to have sexual contact with the person; provided that:

         (i)  The person is not less than five years older than the minor; and

        (ii)  The person is not legally married to the minor;

    (d)   The person knowingly subjects to sexual contact another person who is mentally defective, mentally incapacitated, or physically helpless, or causes such a person to have sexual contact with the actor;

    (e)   The person, while employed:

         (i)  In a state correctional facility;

        (ii)  By a private company providing services at a correctional facility;

       (iii)  By a private company providing community‑based residential services to persons committed to the director of public safety and having received notice of this statute;

        (iv)  By a private correctional facility operating in the State of Hawaii; or

         (v)  As a law enforcement officer as defined in section 710-1000(13),

knowingly subjects to sexual contact an imprisoned person, a person confined to a detention facility, a person committed to the director of public safety, a person residing in a private correctional facility operating in the State of Hawaii, or a person in custody, or causes the person to have sexual contact with the actor; or

    (f)   The person knowingly, by strong compulsion, has sexual contact with another person or causes another person to have sexual contact with the actor.

     Paragraphs (b), (c), (d), and (e) shall not be construed to prohibit practitioners licensed under chapter 453, [or] 455, 457, or 461J from performing any authorized or valid procedure act within the scope of their respective licensed practice practices; provided further that paragraph (e)(v) shall not be construed to prohibit a law enforcement officer from performing a lawful search pursuant to a warrant or an exception to the warrant clause.

     (2)  Sexual assault in the third degree is a class C felony.

     SECTION 3.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

 

 

INTRODUCED BY:

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Report Title:

Practitioners License; Limited authority or validation

 

 

Description:

Limits acts of penetration to any authorized or valid medical procedures by licensed practitioners within the scope of their licensed practice. Includes medical and osteopathic physicians and surgeons, naturopaths, physical therapists, assistants, nurses and midwives as licensed practitioners.

 

 

 

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