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SB0119Introduced in the Senate

Grooming.

Passed

Introduced by Dan Dernulc, District 1

What does this bill do?

Plain-English breakdown

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Official description

Grooming. Adds a facility or event that provides entertainment or programming primarily directed toward a child less than 18 years of age to the list of facilities at which a sexually violent predator or an offender against children may not work or volunteer. Adds entering a facility or location holding an event that provides entertainment or programming primarily directed toward a child less than 18 years of age by a serious sex offender to the crime of unlawful entry by a serious sex offender. Renames the offense of "inappropriate communication with a child" to "sexual grooming", and provides (in addition to the current elements of the offense) that a person commits the offense if the person engages in a pattern of repeated or continuous contact with an individual whom the person believes to be a child less than 14 years of age, with the intent to condition the individual to be less resistant to future sexual conduct or sexual activity. Specifies that "computer network" includes cellular telephones.

Where it stands

Public Law 111

March 5, 2026

How did lawmakers vote?

House votes

1 recorded vote · each counted separately

Senate votes

2 recorded votes · each counted separately

SenateStage: Senate - Senate concurred with House amendments · February 25, 2026

48

Yes

0

No

2

Absent or Not Voting

50 senators recorded in this Senate vote. Colors show vote categories only, not whether a vote was good or bad.

See how each senator voted

SenatorDistrictVote
Dan Dernulc1Yes
Lonnie Randolph2Yes
Mark Spencer3Yes
Rodney Pol4Absent
Ed Charbonneau5Yes
Rick Niemeyer6Yes
Brian Buchanan7Yes
Mike Bohacek8Yes
Ryan Mishler9Yes
David Niezgodski10Yes

Bill history

  1. Authored by Senator Dernulc

  2. First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law

  3. Committee report: amend do pass, adopted

  4. Senator Niemeyer added as second author

  5. Senators Clark, Pol added as coauthors

  6. Amendment #2 (Freeman) prevailed; voice vote

  7. Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed

  8. Senator Brown L added as third author

  9. Third reading: passed; Roll Call 96: yeas 46, nays 0

  10. House sponsor: Representative Olthoff

  11. Cosponsor: Representative Bartlett

  12. Senator Young M added as coauthor

  13. Senator Randolph added as coauthor

  14. Representative Cash added as cosponsor

  15. Referred to the House

  16. First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code

  17. Committee report: amend do pass, adopted

  18. Amendment #2 (Ireland) prevailed; voice vote

  19. Amendment #1 (Zimmerman) prevailed; voice vote

  20. Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed

  21. Third reading: passed; Roll Call 339: yeas 98, nays 0

  22. Returned to the Senate with amendments

  23. Motion to concur filed

  24. Senate concurred with House amendments; Roll Call 293: yeas 48, nays 0

  25. Senator Doriot added as coauthor

  26. Signed by the President Pro Tempore

  27. Signed by the Speaker

  28. Signed by the President of the Senate

  29. Signed by the Governor

  30. Public Law 111

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