Tracking List: Abortion (21 bills)
| SB999 - Sen. Brad Hudson (R) - Modifies provisions relating to vulnerable persons | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Summary: | SS#2 SB 999 - VULNERABLE PERSONS
Under this bill, a prosecuting attorney can request assistance from the Attorney General for the prosecution of the certain sexual offenses. The bill creates the "Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act". Under this bill, a child born alive during or after an abortion or attempted abortion will have the same rights, privileges, and immunities as any other person, citizen, and resident of Missouri, including any other live-born child. Any licensed, registered, or certified health care provider present in the provider's professional capacity at the time a child is born alive during or after an abortion or attempted abortion will exercise the same degree of professional skill, care, and diligence to preserve the life, health, and comfort of the child as a reasonably diligent and conscientious provider would render to any other child born alive at the same gestational age. Any person who knowingly performs or attempts to perform an overt act that kills a child born alive will be guilty of first degree murder. A person will have the right to bring a cause of action for wrongful death or improper health care, as described in this bill. This bill modifies the Pregnancy-Associated Mortality Review Board within the Department of Health and Senior Services. Under this bill, board membership must include at least one member from each congressional district with demographically diverse membership. Board members are increased from no more than 18 members to no more than 22 members. Additionally, the Board will, in its study and review of maternal deaths, consider the level and timing of prenatal and postnatal care, the presence or absence of maternity care deserts, approaches taken in this state and other states to reduce or eliminate racial inequities in maternal deaths, and the adequacy of data collected by the Board. Data reported by the Board must be disaggregated by race, ethnicity, language, nationality, age, zip code, and level and timing of prenatal and postnatal care. This bill adds cyberstalking to the list of conduct prohibited by an order of protection. Currently, a person can be released from jail upon recognizance or bond. This bill provides that a person that has been released under such circumstances that fails to comply with the conditions of such release that imposes no contact with the victim will be guilty of a class A misdemeanor and must forfeit any security that was pledged for their release. This bill modifies the offenses of assault in the first, second, third, and fourth degrees and the offenses of domestic violence in the first, second, third, and fourth degrees by removing the defined terms of "serious physical injury" and "physical injury" and providing for the following harms: (1) Great bodily harm: Bodily injury which creates a high probability of death, or which causes serious permanent or protracted loss or impairment of function of any bodily member or organ, or other serious bodily harm; (2) Substantial bodily harm: Bodily harm which involves a temporary but substantial disfigurement, or which causes temporary but substantial loss or impairment of the function of any bodily member or organ, or which causes a fracture of any bodily member; and (3) Bodily harm: Physical pain or injury, illness, or any impairment of physical condition. Under current law, the first offense of harassment in the first degree is a class E felony. This bill provides that a second or subsequent conviction of harassment in the first degree will be a class D felony where the individual has previously been found guilty of harassment in the first or second degree. Currently, a first offense of harassment in the second degree is a class A misdemeanor. Under this bill, provisions relating to a second or subsequent conviction of harassment in the second degree are modified to include a conviction of harassment in the first degree as a previous conviction in which case it is a class E felony. This bill modifies the offense of stalking in the first degree by repealing the elements of such offense and providing that a person commits the offense of stalking in the first degree when the person knowingly, through a course of conduct that is directed at another person or through technological abuse, as defined in the bill, engages in conduct that would cause a reasonable person under similar circumstances to: (1) Fear death or bodily injury, as defined in this bill; (2) Fear that an offense will be committed against a member of the person's family, household members, or an individual with whom the person has a dating relationship; (3) Fear that an offense will be committed against the person's property; or (4) Feel harassed, terrified, or intimidated. This bill modifies the offense of stalking in the second degree by repealing the elements of such offense and providing that a person commits the offense of stalking in the second degree when the person knowingly, through a course of conduct that is directed at another person or through technological abuse, as defined in the bill, engages in conduct that would cause a reasonable person under similar circumstances to feel harassed, terrified, or intimidated. This bill creates the offense of cyberharassment. A person commits this offense if he or she purposely or knowingly engages in a threatening, aggressive, or otherwise fear-inducing, course of conduct by using digital technology, internet service providers, electronic service providers or other electronic communications and devices cause reasonable fear, alarm, anxiety, undo stress, or terror to others by repeated contact with no legitimate purpose. This offense will be a class B misdemeanor upon a first offense and a class A misdemeanor for second or subsequent offenses. A person commits the offense of cyberstalking if such person purposely or knowingly engages in a threatening, aggressive, or otherwise fear-inducing, course of conduct by using digital technology, internet service providers, electronic service providers or other electronic communications and devices to enhance the ability to intimidate, track, follow or cause reasonable fear, alarm, anxiety, undo stress, or terror to another person. A first offense will be a class A misdemeanor and a second or subsequent offense will be a class E felony. This bill creates the offense of disclosure of an intimate digital depiction. A person will be guilty of such offense if he or she discloses or threatens to disclose an intimate digital depiction with the intent to harass or threaten another person. A violation of such offense is a class D felony if the person discloses an intimate digital depiction and a class E felony if the person threatens to disclose an intimate digital depiction. Any second or subsequent violation of such offense is a class C felony. Additionally, it will be a class C felony if the disclosure interferes with a government proceeding or causes violence. This bill creates the offense of sadistic online exploitation. A person commits this offense where he or she uses the internet to coerce a victim into committing certain acts. This offense shall be a class E felony. Certain provisions of this bill have an effective date of July 1, 2027. The provisions of this bill are nonseverable. |
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| Position: | Oppose (General) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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07/13/2026
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- Signed by the Governor
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