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SF0156 • 2021

Incest amendments.

AN ACT relating to crimes and offenses; amending the relationships required for the crime of incest; amending the penalty for incest; and providing for an effective date.

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Inactive

Wyoming marks this bill as inactive, which usually means it is no longer moving in the current session.

Sponsor
Senator Biteman
Last action
2021-04-07
Official status
inactive
Effective date
3/1/2021

Plain English Breakdown

The bill was marked as inactive, meaning it did not pass in its current session.

Incest Amendments

The bill updates the definition of incest to include legal guardians and foster parents with minor children living in the same household and increases penalties for adults who commit incest with minors.

What This Bill Does

  • Expands the list of relationships that qualify as incest to include legal guardians, foster parents, and their minor children living in the same household.
  • Increases penalties for people over 18 years old who commit incest with someone under 18.

Who It Names or Affects

  • People in certain family-like relationships such as legal guardians, foster parents, and their minor children living together.

Terms To Know

incest
A crime involving sexual activity between closely related people
legal guardian
An adult who has legal responsibility for a minor child's care and well-being

Limits and Unknowns

  • The bill did not pass, so it does not change the current laws.
  • It only affects people in specific family-like relationships where one person is a minor.

Bill History

  1. 2021-04-07 Senate

    S:Died in Committee Returned Bill Pursuant to SR 5-4

  2. 2021-03-19 Senate

    S No report prior to CoW Cutoff

  3. 2021-03-02 Senate

    S Introduced and Referred to S01 - Judiciary

  4. 2021-03-01 Senate

    S Received for Introduction

  5. 2021-03-01 LSO

    Bill Number Assigned

Current Bill Text

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21LSO-0629
2021
STATE OF WYOMING
21LSO-0629
Numbered
2.0

SENATE FILE NO. SF0156

Incest amendments.

Sponsored by: Senator(s) Biteman and Salazar and Representative(s) Laursen

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to crimes and offenses; amending the relationships required for the crime of incest; amending the penalty for incest; and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

Section 1
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W.S. 6
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4
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402(a)(i) through (iii), by creating new paragraphs (iv) and (v) and (b) is amended to read:

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402.

Incest; penalties; disclosure or publication of identifying information; "minor victim".

(a)

A person is guilty of incest if he knowingly commits sexual intrusion, as defined by W.S. 6
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301(a)(vii), or sexual contact, as defined by W.S. 6
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301(a)(vi), with an ancestor or descendant or a brother or sister of the whole or half blood. The relationships referred to herein include relationships of:

(i)

Parent and child
or siblings
by adoption
when one or both of the adopted siblings is a minor and living in the same household
;

(ii)

Blood relationships without regard to legitimacy;
and

(iii)

Stepparent and stepchild
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or step siblings when one or both of the step siblings is a minor and living in the same household;

(iv)

Legal guardian and child or persons with the same legal guardian when one or both of the persons with the same legal guardian is a minor and living in the same household; and

(v)

Foster parent and foster child or persons with the same foster parent when one or both of the persons with the same foster parent is a minor and living in the same household.

(b)

Incest is a felony punishable by
:
imprisonment for not more than fifteen (15) years, a fine of not more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00), or both.

(i)

Except as provided in paragraph (ii) of this subsection, imprisonment for not less than five (5) nor more than twenty (20) years and a fine of not more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00), or both;

(ii)

If the person is eighteen (18) years of age or older and the victim is less than eighteen (18) years of age, imprisonment for not less than twenty
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five (25) years nor more than fifty (50) years and a fine of not more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00), or both.

Section 2
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This act is effective July 1, 2021
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