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HB105
G39FF2C-1
By Representative Gidley
RFD: Judiciary
First Read: 13-Jan-26
PFD: 06-Jan-26
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G39FF2C-1 12/18/2025 THR (L)THR 2025-2538
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PFD: 06-Jan-26
SYNOPSIS:
Under existing law, it is unlawful for a person
to entice, allure, persuade, or invite; or attempt to
entice, allure, persuade, or invite; a child under 16
years of age to enter any vehicle, room, house, or
other place for the purpose of proposing the
performance of a sexual act or for the purpose of
committing an aggravated assault against the child.
This bill would provide that it is unlawful for
a person to entice, allure, persuade, groom, or invite;
or attempt to entice, allure, persuade, groom, or
invite; a child under 16 years of age to enter any
vehicle, room, house, or other place for the purpose of
proposing the performance of a sexual act or for the
purpose of committing an aggravated assault against the
child.
Under existing law, a person who knowingly
entices, induces, persuades, seduces, prevails,
advises, coerces, lures, directs, or orders; or
attempts to entice, induce, persuade, seduce, prevail,
advise, coerce, lure, direct, or order; by electronic
or digital means a child at least three years younger
than the defendant, or another individual believed by
the defendant to be a child at least three years
younger than the defendant, to meet with any individual
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younger than the defendant, to meet with any individual
for the purpose of engaging in a sexual act is guilty
of electronic solicitation of a child.
This bill would provide that a person is guilty
of electronic solicitation of a child if the person
knowingly entices, induces, persuades, seduces,
prevails, advises, coerces, lures, directs, grooms, or
orders; or attempts to entice, induce, persuade,
seduce, prevail, advise, coerce, lure, direct, groom,
or order; a child who is at least three years younger
than the defendant, or another individual the defendant
believes to be a child at least three years younger
than the defendant, to engage in a sex offense or
genital mutilation.
This bill would also provide that, for the
purposes of jurisdiction, a crime involving the
solicitation of a child by electronic means is
committed in any county in which any part of the crime
took place, a victim or defendant resided, or any image
was received.
A BILL
TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
Relating to crimes and offenses; to amend Sections
13A-6-69, 13A-6-122, and 13A-6-126, Code of Alabama 1975; to
further provide for the crimes of enticing a child for immoral
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further provide for the crimes of enticing a child for immoral
purposes and electronic solicitation of a child; and to
further provide for jurisdiction in certain electronic
solicitation crimes.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:
Section 1. Sections 13A-6-69, 13A-6-122, and 13A-6-126,
Code of Alabama 1975, are amended to read as follows:
"§13A-6-69
(a) It shall be unlawful for any A person commits the
crime of enticing a child for immoral purposes if, with
lascivious intent , to entice, allure, persuade, or invite, he
or she entices, allures, persuades, grooms, or invites; or
attempt attempts to entice, allure, persuade, groom, or
invite, any child under 16 years of age to enter any vehicle,
room, house, office, or other place for any of the following
reasons:
(1) For the purpose of proposing to such the child the
performance of an act of sexual intercourse or an act which
constitutes the offense of sodomy or for the purpose of
proposing the fondling or feeling of the sexual or genital
parts of such child or the breast of such child, any of the
following:
a. A sex offense pursuant to Section 15-20A-5.
b. Sexual conduct pursuant to Section 13A-12-200.1.
c. A sexual performance.
d. Genital mutilation.
(2) To commit any of the following:
a. A sex offense pursuant to Section 15-20A-5 against
the child.
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the child.
b. Sexual conduct pursuant to Section 13A-12-200.1.
c. A sexual performance.
d. Genital mutilation.
(3) or for For the purpose of committing an aggravated
assault on such child, or for the purpose of proposing that
such child fondle or feel the sexual or genital parts of such
person a violation of Section 26-15-3 against the child .
(b) A violation of this section is a Class C felony.
(c) For the purposes of this section, the term "groom"
means to engage in a pattern of behavior that seeks to
prepare, induce, or persuade a child. The behavior may
include, but is not limited to, deliberate acts of
establishing an emotional connection with a child through
manipulation, trust-building, influence, gift-giving, or
physical touching, and may be facilitated by any of the
following:
(1) Electronic communication.
(2) Online activities.
(3) In-person activities.
(4) Use of third parties.
(5) Indirect methods. "
"§13A-6-122
(a) A person commits the crime of electronic
solicitation of a child if who he or she knowingly entices,
induces, persuades, seduces, prevails, advises, coerces,
lures, directs, grooms, or orders ,; or attempts to entice,
induce, persuade, seduce, prevail, advise, coerce, lure,
direct, groom, or order ,; by electronic or digital means of a
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direct, groom, or order ,; by electronic or digital means of a
computer, on-line service, Internet service, Internet bulletin
board service, weblog, cellular phone, video game system,
personal data assistant, telephone, facsimile machine, camera,
universal serial bus drive, writable compact disc, magnetic
storage device, floppy disk, or any other electronic
communication or storage device , a child who is at least three
years younger than the defendant, or another person believed
by individual the defendant believes to be a child at least
three years younger than the defendant , to meet with the
defendant or any other person for the purpose of engaging
engage in sexual intercourse, sodomy, sexual contact, sexual
performance, obscene sexual performance, sexual conduct, any
of the following:
(1) A sex offense pursuant to Section 15-20A-5.
(2) Sexual conduct pursuant to Section 13A-12-200.1.
(3) A sexual performance.
(4)or genital Genital mutilation , or directs a child
to engage in sexual intercourse, sodomy, sexual contact,
sexual performance, obscene sexual performance, sexual
conduct, or genital mutilation is guilty of electronic
solicitation of a child .
(b) Any person who violates this section commits
Electronic solicitation of a child is a Class B felony.
(c) For the purposes of this section, the term "groom"
means to engage in a pattern of behavior that seeks to
prepare, induce, or persuade a child. The behavior may
include, but is not limited to, deliberate acts of
establishing an emotional connection with a child through
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establishing an emotional connection with a child through
manipulation, trust-building, influence, gift-giving, or
physical touching, and may be facilitated by any of the
following:
(1) Electronic communication.
(2) Online activities.
(3) In-person activities.
(4) Use of third parties.
(5) Indirect methods. "
"§13A-6-126
(a) For purposes of determining jurisdiction of this
article, the offense is committed in this state if any of the
acts committed under Sections 13A-6-121, 13A-6-122, or
13A-6-123 either originate in or are received in this state.
(b) For purposes of determining jurisdiction of this
article, the offense is committed in any county in which any
part of the crime took place, the victim or defendant resided,
or any images were received.
(c) The purpose of this section is to confer
jurisdiction upon the courts of this state to the maximum
extent allowable under the Constitution of the United States
of America and the Constitution of Alabama of 19012022."
Section 2. This act shall become effective on October
1, 2026.
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