Adds to and amends existing law to provide for the crimes of sexual battery and aggravated sexual battery, to provide punishments and to provide that the Sexual Offender Registration Notification and Community Right-to-Know Act shall apply to any person who commits aggravated sexual battery.

The bill amends the Idaho criminal code relating to battery to add a new section pertaining to sexual battery (I.C. 18-924) to differentiate between unlawful touching, in general (which would be charged under the current I.C. 18-903 as battery), and unlawful touching of private areas for the purpose of degrading, humiliating, or demeaning the victim or for the defendant's sexual gratification (which could be charged as sexual battery under the proposed statute). Under the proposed statute, sexual battery remains a misdemeanor, with the possibility of increased jail time. The bill also provides another new section (I.C. 18-925), aggravated sexual battery. Aggravated sexual battery is sexual battery, as defined in the proposed section 18-924, committed under circumstances constituting aggravated battery, as defined in I.C. 18-907. Aggravated sexual battery would be a felony. Finally, the bill revises the Sexual Offender Registration Notification and Community Right-to-Know Act (I.C. 18-8304) to include aggravated sexual battery as a registerable offense.