ARTICLE 1 - SEX OFFENDERS: MANDATORY LIFE SENTENCES FOR CERTAIN EGREGIOUS AND REPEAT SEX OFENSES; OTHER SENTENCING CHANGES

Modifying certain provisions providing for the sentencing of dangerous sex
offenders; requiring sex offenders serving mandatory life sentences to serve the minimum term of imprisonment before supervised release, specifying certain factors to be considered by the commissioner of corrections before granting supervised release; modifying the conditions for mandatory increased sentences for certain patterned and predatory offenders; defining sex offense, second or subsequent sex offense and predatory crime for criminal sexual conduct purposes; modifying the conditions for life sentences for certain sex offenses; defining the crime of criminal sexual conduct in the sixth degree and providing for sentencing; requiring the sentencing guidelines commission to modify the sentencing guidelines to reflect the changes

ARTICLE 2 - SEX OFFENDERS; TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING CHANGES

Making technical and conforming amendments to certain statutory provisions relating to rules of the commissioner of corrections, sex offenders registration, intensive supervised release, civil commitment determination and petitions, the formation and duties of end of confinement review committees, presumptive and mandatory sentences for repeat sex offenders and previous sex offense convictions, DNA analysis requirements, evidence in criminal sexual conduct cases, the confidentiality of victim identity records, the medical purpose exclusion, prosecution jurisdiction and excluding spectators from the courtroom; specifying certain renumbering and cross reference and technical correction instructions to the revisor of statutes
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