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State of South Dakota
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SEVENTY-SEVENTH
SESSION
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY, 2002 |
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HOUSE BILL
NO.
1138
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Introduced by:
Representatives Olson (Mel), Abdallah, Burg, Hargens, Madsen, Michels,
Peterson (Bill), and Sebert and Senators Olson (Ed), Daugaard, de Hueck,
Hutmacher, and Moore
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FOR AN ACT ENTITLED, An Act to
increase the penalty for the stalking of certain children.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA:
Section 1. That § 22-19A-7 be amended to read as follows:
22-19A-7. Any person who willfully, maliciously, and repeatedly follows or harasses a child twelve years of age or younger or who makes a credible threat to a child twelve years of age or younger with the intent to place that child in reasonable fear of death or great bodily injury or to reasonably fear for the child's safety is guilty of the crime of felony stalking.
Stalking
Felonious stalking
is a
Class 1 misdemeanor
Class 6 felony
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350 copies of this document were printed by the South Dakota
Legislative Research Council at a cost of $.027 per page. . Insertions into existing statutes are indicated by underscores.
Deletions from existing statutes are indicated byoverstrikes.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA:
Section 1. That § 22-19A-7 be amended to read as follows:
22-19A-7. Any person who willfully, maliciously, and repeatedly follows or harasses a child twelve years of age or younger or who makes a credible threat to a child twelve years of age or younger with the intent to place that child in reasonable fear of death or great bodily injury or to reasonably fear for the child's safety is guilty of the crime of felony stalking.
Legislative Research Council at a cost of $.027 per page. . Insertions into existing statutes are indicated by underscores.
Deletions from existing statutes are indicated by
