SB 120-08: Amendment to Stopping Sexual Violence Act - Passed

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Amendment to Stopping Sexual Violence Act

SENATE BILL

to modify recent legislation regarding criminal activity

Be it enacted,

Section I: Reform

1. SB 119-26 Stopping Sexual Violence Act is hereby modified as follows:

Stopping Sexual Violence Act

1. No defendant in any federal criminal trial concerning a violent crime shall be permitted to raise or offer as a defense that such defendant lacked culpability or mens rea as a result of voluntarily participating in sadomadochistic, dominance and submission, roleplay, or other sexually fetishistic conduct.

2. For purposes of federal criminal sentencing, if any person is convicted of rape, sexual assault, or any attempt or conspiracy to commit rape or sexual assault, and such person uses a bestality device during the commission of such crime, then such person, in addition to any mandatory minimum sentence imposed for rape or sexual assault, shall also be subject to a non-concurrent mandatory minimum sentence equivalent to that imposed for bestiality.

3. For purposes of federal criminal sentencing, if any person is convicted of a crime requiring registration as a sex offender, such person shall be prohibited from owning or possessing any bestiality device. Any such bestiality device discovered in the ownership or possession of a registered sex offender shall be subject to immediate seizure and forfeiture.

4. As used in this Act, bestiality device means any sexually explicit sculpture, toy, or other object that is designed or sculpted to appear as the genitalia or sex organs of a non-human animal, including but not limited to a fictitious, mythical, or anthropomorphized animal. This shall not include any equipment utilized in veterinary science or animal husbandry or breeding.

2 5. This act shall take effect immediately.

Section II: Implementation

1. This act takes effect immediately.

Sponsor: Pyro

Debate has commenced and the Senator is recognized.

[Pyro]

Originally introduced as an amendment during debate, this proposal modifies a recently passed law to eliminate some of its more absurd language while preserving its core criminality provision. Though by all accounts an exceedingly rare event, a the sort of defense raised in Section 1 should not be permitted in the case of a violent crime. The remainder of the bill is unrelated silliness about sex devices, and for this reason is removed.

[LAKISYLVANIA]

I'll support this.

[OSR stands with Israel]

Proposing an amendment unstriking sections 2-4 from this bill

[GM Team Member and Senator WB]

objecting to OSR's proposed amendment

[PPT Spiral]

My friends, you now have 72 hours to vote on the OSR amendment outlined above.

[GM Team Member and Senator WB]

nay

[OSR stands with Israel]

Aye

[reagente]

Aye

[Pyro]

Nay. Insufficient (absent) reasoning is provided for the proposed amendment.

[OSR stands with Israel]

Why are we reducing the punishment for literal rape and why the heck are posters so obsessed with bestiality that you are willing to reduce such punishments . It makes no sense whatsoever

[RFayette]

Aye

[Deep Dixieland Senator, Muad'dib (OSR MSR)]

Aye

[Adam Griffin]

Yeah, the original version of this bill was obviously motivated by a desire to slowly return to pre-Lawrence v. Texas days piece-by-piece. The offered bill by the sponsor is simply reverts to the notion that "rape is rape, sexual assault is sexual assault" notwithstanding other real criminal actions that occur alongside such, and keeps us from sliding down a slippery slope where wearing a butt-plug while committing such crimes is thereby pursued as another charge against the accused or whatever. I'm in favor of not allowing LEOs the ability to slap on multiple overlapping, erroneous charges based on their own biases.

Nay

[Ragnaroni]

Aye

[Jay 🏳️‍⚧️]

Nay

[PPT Spiral]

Aye

[nerd73]

nay

[Dr. MB]

nay

[P. Clodius Pulcher did nothing wrong]

Nay

[YE]

Abstain.

[PPT Spiral]

By a vote of 6 Ayes, 7 Nays, and one abstention, the amendment fails. Debate resumes and all that.

[Pyro]

Motion for a final vote.

[PPT Spiral]

A final vote shall now commence for the next 96 hours. Senators, please vote Aye, Nay, or Abstain.

[GM Team Member and Senator WB]

aye