Bill Text: MI HB5410 | 2023-2024 | 102nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Crimes: other; crimes regarding certain sexual conduct; modify. Amends secs. 158 & 159 of 1931 PA 328 (MCL 750.158 & 750.159).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-31 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 01/30/2024 [HB5410 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2023-HB5410-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL NO. 5410
A bill to amend 1931 PA 328, entitled
"The Michigan penal code,"
by amending sections 158 and 159 (MCL 750.158 and 750.159).
the people of the state of michigan enact:
CRIME AGAINST NATURE OR SODOMY BESTIALITY OR SEXUAL CONDUCT UPON HUMAN CORPSE
Sec. 158. (1) Any person An individual who shall commit the abominable and detestable crime against nature either with mankind or with any animal shall be commits bestiality or sexual contact or sexual penetration upon a human corpse is guilty of a felony, punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than 15 years, or if such person the individual was at the time of the said offense a sexually delinquent person , may be at the time the individual committed bestiality or sexual contact or sexual penetration upon a human corpse, the individual is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for an indeterminate term, the minimum of which shall must be not less than 1 day and the maximum of which shall be is life.
(2) As used in this section:
(a) "Sexual contact" means the conduct described under section 520a committed upon a human corpse.
(b) "Sexual penetration" means the conduct described under section 520a committed upon a human corpse.
Sec. 159. In any prosecution for sodomy, it shall not be bestiality, it is not necessary to prove emission, and any sexual penetration, however slight, shall be deemed is sufficient to complete the crime specified in the next preceding of bestiality under section 158.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days after the date it is enacted into law.
