As Reported by the Senate Judiciary Committee

129th General Assembly
Regular Session
2011-2012
Sub. S. B. No. 191


Senators Hughes, Wilson 

Cosponsor: Senator Jordan 



A BILL
To enact section 2907.12 of the Revised Code to make 1
engaging in an act of sexual bestiality a criminal 2
offense.3


BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:

       Section 1.  That section 2907.12 of the Revised Code be 4
enacted to read as follows:5

       Sec. 2907.12.  (A) No person shall knowingly engage in an act 6
of sexual bestiality. 7

       (B) Whoever violates this section is guilty of engaging in an 8
act of sexual bestiality. Engaging in an act of sexual bestiality 9
is a misdemeanor of the first degree or, if the offender 10
previously has been convicted of a violation of this section, a 11
felony of the fifth degree. 12

       (C) As used in this section, "sexual bestiality" means any 13
conduct of a sexual nature between a human and an animal that 14
consists of the insertion, however slight, of the genitals of a 15
human into the vaginal, anal, or oral opening of the animal or the 16
insertion, however slight, of the genitals of an animal into the 17
vaginal, anal, or oral opening of the human, for the purpose of 18
arousing or gratifying the sexual desires of the human.19