Amends existing law to revise the definition of “sexual contact.”

LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO Sixty-eighth Legislature Second Regular Session - 2026 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HOUSE BILL NO. 696 BY JUDICIARY, RULES AND ADMINISTRATION COMMITTEE AN ACT1 RELATING TO PRISONERS; AMENDING SECTION 18-6110, IDAHO CODE, TO REVISE A2 DEFINITION; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.3

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Idaho:4

SECTION 1. That Section 18-6110, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby5 amended to read as follows:6 18-6110. SEXUAL CONTACT WITH A PRISONER. (1) It is a felony for any em-7 ployee of the Idaho department of correction, Idaho department of juvenile8 corrections or any officer, employee or agent of a state, local or private9 correctional facility, as those terms are defined in section 18-101A, Idaho10 Code, to have sexual contact with a prisoner or juvenile offender, not their11 spouse, whether an in-state or out-of-state prisoner or juvenile offender,12 as those terms are defined in section 18-101A, Idaho Code.13 (2) It is a felony for any supervising officer, as that term is defined14 in section 18-101A, Idaho Code, to knowingly have sexual contact with any15 parolee or probationer, as those terms are defined in section 18-101A, Idaho16 Code, who is not the person's spouse.17 (3) For the purposes of this section "sexual contact" means sexual in-18 tercourse, genital-genital contact, manual-anal contact, manual-genital19 contact, oral-genital contact, anal-genital contact or, oral-anal contact,20 contact between the mouth and any body part, or any willful physical contact,21 over or under the clothing, when the physical contact is done with the in-22 tent of arousing, appealing to, or gratifying the lust, passion, or sexual23 desires of the actor or any other person, between persons of the same or oppo-24 site sex.25 (4) Any person found guilty of sexual contact with a prisoner or juve-26 nile offender is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for a term27 not to exceed life.28

SECTION 2. An emergency existing therefor, which emergency is hereby29 declared to exist, this act shall be in full force and effect on and after30 July 1, 2026.31