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          Session of 1998
                    SENATE BILL No. 520           By Committee on Judiciary           1-27             9             AN ACT concerning crimes and punishment; relating to unlawful sexual
10             relations; amending K.S.A. 21-3520 and repealing the existing section.
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12       Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
13           Section 1. K.S.A. 21-3520 is hereby amended to read as follows:
14       21-3520. (a) Unlawful sexual relations is engaging in consensual sexual
15       intercourse or sodomy with a person who is not married to the offender
16       or the consensual intentional touching of a person who is not married to
17       the offender with the intent to arouse or satisfy the sexual desires of the
18       offender or another if:
19           (1) The offender is an employee of the department of corrections or
20       the employee of a contractor who is under contract to provide services in
21       a correctional institution and the person with whom the offender is en-
22       gaging in consensual sexual intercourse or, sodomy or touching is an in-
23       mate; or
24           (2) the offender is a parole officer and the person with whom the
25       offender is engaging in consensual sexual intercourse or, sodomy or
26       touching is an inmate who has been released on parole or conditional
27       release or postrelease supervision under the direct supervision and con-
28       trol of the offender.
29           (b) For purposes of this act:
30           (1) ``Correctional institution'' means the same as prescribed by K.S.A.
31       75-5202, and amendments thereto;
32           (2) ``inmate'' means the same as prescribed by K.S.A. 75-5202, and
33       amendments thereto;
34           (3) ``parole officer'' means the same as prescribed by K.S.A. 75-5202,
35       and amendments thereto; and
36           (4) ``postrelease supervision'' means the same as prescribed in the
37       Kansas sentencing guidelines act in K.S.A. 21-4703.
38           (c) Unlawful sexual relations is a severity level 10 person felony.
39           Sec. 2. K.S.A. 21-3520 is hereby repealed.
40           Sec. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
41       publication in the statute book.
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