Senate Bill No. 566
(By Senator Sprouse)
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[Introduced February 13, 2007; referred to the Committee on the
Judiciary.]
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A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by
adding thereto a new section, designated §61-8-29, relating to
providing for a criminal offense for employers who facilitate
employment of any employee to other intrastate employment when
such employee is known by the employer to have had sexual
relations with an individual under the age of eighteen years.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended
by adding thereto a new section, designated §61-8-29, to read as
follows:
ARTICLE 8. CRIMES AGAINST CHASTITY, MORALITY AND DECENCY.
§61-8-29.
Transfers for employment of individuals engaging in
child sex offenses.
(a)
Prohibition on the intrastate transfer of child sex
offenders. -- Whoever, being an employer within this state,
directs, causes, persuades, induces, or entices the travel
intrastate of an employee with the purpose or effect of facilitating the employment of such employee with another employer,
if the employer knows that such employee engaged in sexual conduct
with an individual who was under the age of eighteen at the time of
such sexual conduct, shall be guilty of a felony and, upon
conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than five hundred
dollars nor more than three thousand dollars, or confined in a
correctional facility not more than five years, or both fined and
confined.
(b) For purposes of this section, the term "sexual conduct"
means: (1) Any conduct which would constitute a felony offense
against a minor under the provisions of article eight-a or article
eight-b of this chapter; and (2) which occurred during the course
of employment.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to
provide for a criminal
offense for employers who facilitate employment of any employee to
other intrastate employment when such employee is known by the
employer to have had sexual relations with an individual under the
age of eighteen years.
This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and
underscoring have been omitted.