Amendment #754 to H4000

Relative to the protection of persons with disabilities

Representatives Poirier of North Attleborough and Wong of Saugus move to amend the bill by inserting at the end thereof the following:

"SECTION XX. Chapter 265 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2012 Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting after section 22C, the following new section:--

Section 22D. Whoever has sexual intercourse or unnatural sexual intercourse with a person with disability, as defined in section 13K, and compels such a person with disability to submit by force and against his or her will or compels such a person with disability to submit by threat of bodily injury, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for life or for any terms of years.  A prosecution commenced under this section shall neither be continued without a finding nor placed on file."