Legislative Session number- 81

Bill Name: SF2396

E Relating to crime prevention ARTICLE 1 PREDATORY OFFENDER REGISTRATION AND
COMMUNITY NOTIFICATION PROVISIONSExpanding and modifying the predatory sex
offenders registration law; requiring the registration of persons convicted or
adjudicated delinquent of similar crimes pursuant to a court martial, persons
convicted or adjudicated delinquent in another state entering the state to
reside, work or attend school and persons committed as sexually dangerous under
similar laws of other states or the federal government, procedure; providing for
public disclosure by the bureau of criminal apprehension through electronic,
computerized or other accessible means of certain information on predatory
offenders failing to comply with registration requirements, requiring notice of
the availability of the information to persons required to register; specifying
the information required to be provided by persons required to register to
corrections agents or law enforcement authorities; increasing the criminal
penalties for failing to comply with registration requirements and imposing a
mandatory minimum sentence, requiring lifetime registration of certain
offenders; providing for retroactive application of registration requirements to
certain offenders; expanding and clarifying the scope of the community
notification law relating to the release from confinement of sex offenders;
changing the term sex offender to predatory offender and modifying the
definition to include predatory offenders required to register under the
predatory offenders registration law, excluding persons required to register
based solely on a delinquency adjudication; extending the waiting period for end
of confinement review committee reassessment and prohibiting requests for
reassessment by incarcerated offenders; requiring the commissioner of
corrections to create and maintain an Internet web site for the mandatory
posting of certain information relating to level III sex offenders, specifying
certain updating and maintenance requirements; clarifying civil liability
immunity for state or local agencies or officials or private organizations or
individuals acting on behalf of agencies or officials for failing to disclose
certain information; requiring the BCA to maintain a computerized data system
relating to individuals required to register as predatory offenders and to make
the information readily available to law enforcement agencies, requiring the
superintendent of the BCA to report to the legislature by a certain date on
money spent and on the implementation of policy changes; appropriating money to
the BCA for a systems design consultant, for software development and
implementation, for interfacing the state system with the national sex offender
registry, for certain additional staff positions and for office supplies and
expenses and to the commissioner of corrections for costs associated with the
expanded community notification requirements ARTICLE 2 NAME CHANGE
PROVISIONSRestricting court granting of name changes to convicted felons or
persons charged with a felony; prohibiting the use by felons of a different
surname after marriage without complying with the name change procedure, penalty
for violation, requiring and prescribing a procedure for application notice to
the prosecuting authority obtaining the felony conviction, requiring the filing
of certain proofs of service, providing for the filing of objection by
prosecuting authorities in district court under certain conditions to prevent
court or county granting of the name change, time limit, providing for convicted
felon contesting of the objection and establishing a constitutional right to a
name change under certain conditions; placing conditions on court issuance of
name changes as part of the marriage license application or marriage dissolution
procedures ARTICLE 3 CRIMINAL AND EXPUNGEMENT PROVISIONSEstablishing
jurisdiction to prosecute criminal sexual conduct offenses and solicitation of
children to engage in sexual conduct in the jurisdiction of violation
origination or termination; clarifying the definitions of child and solicit;
including harassment by electronic means in the definition of the crime of
harassment; clarifying certain provisions providing for the expungement of
criminal records; requiring the court to grant petitions to seal records of
petitioners found not guilty by reason of mental illness, exception; clarifying
a certain provision restricting the possession of firearms upon expungement of
records for conviction of a violent crime and a certain provision providing for
stay and distribution of expungement orders; extending the statute of
limitations for homicide and for certain criminal sexual conduct offenses under
certain evidence collection and preservation conditions(ra, ja)