Introduced Version




SENATE BILL No. 309

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DIGEST OF INTRODUCED BILL



Citations Affected: IC 35-42-4-1.

Synopsis: Rape. Adds a new classification to the crime of rape by providing that a person who has sexual intercourse with another person when the other person has not voluntarily consented commits rape as a Class C felony. Makes the offense a Class B felony if the other person is so physically disabled or deficient as to be unable to give consent. (Current law provides that rape is a Class B or a Class A felony, depending upon the circumstances.)

Effective: July 1, 2003.



Bowser


    January 15, 2003, read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal, Civil and Public Policy.




Introduced

First Regular Session 113th General Assembly (2003)


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SENATE BILL No. 309


    A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning criminal law and procedure.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana:

    SECTION 1. IC 35-42-4-1 IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2003]: Sec. 1. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), subdivisions (1) and (2), a person who knowingly or intentionally has sexual intercourse with a member of the opposite sex when the other person has not voluntarily consented to have sexual intercourse commits rape, a Class C felony. However, the offense is:
        (1) a Class B felony if:
            (A) the other person is compelled by force or imminent threat of force;
            (2) (B) the other person is unaware that the sexual intercourse is occurring; or
            (3) (C) the other person is so mentally or physically disabled or deficient that consent to sexual intercourse cannot be given; and
commits rape, a Class B felony.
        (b) An offense described in subsection (a) is (2) a Class A felony

if:
            (1) (A) it is committed by using or threatening the use of deadly force;
            (2) (B) it is committed while armed with a deadly weapon;
            (3) (C) it results in serious bodily injury to a person other than a defendant; or
            (4) (D) the commission of the offense is facilitated by furnishing the victim, without the victim's knowledge, with a drug (as defined in IC 16-42-19-2 (1)) or a controlled substance (as defined in IC 35-48-1-9 ) or knowing that the victim was furnished with the drug or controlled substance without the victim's knowledge.
    SECTION 2. [EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2003] IC 35-42-4-1 , as amended by this act, applies only to crimes committed after June 30, 2003.