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Committee adopts substitute and favorably advances bill clarifying ‘performance’ offenses involving minors
Summary
The Government Operations Committee adopted a first substitute and unanimously voted to pass House Bill 114, which reorganizes existing lewdness and pornography-related provisions into a separate 'performance' offense and adds a recklessness mens rea where performances occur in view of children, aiming to make enforcement clearer for officers and performers.
Representative Jack introduced House Bill 114, a technical reorganization of criminal statutes related to pornographic and lewd performances that the sponsor and criminal-justice experts said is intended to make existing law clearer and easier to enforce.
"What this bill does to make it clearer for everyone in this space, law enforcement or performers, is it takes one paragraph and puts it into two separate paragraphs divided by subject so that you can see where's the line on [obscenity] and where is the line on lewdness," Representative Jack said during the committee presentation. He also referenced a coordination clause in the first substitute that the committee adopted.
Dan Strong of the Commission on Criminal…
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