Sponsor Statement for HB 360

This Bill is offered to afford society the ability or option to confine sexually violent predators. A sexually violent predator is a person who has been convicted of a sexually violent offense and who suffers from a mental abnormality or personality disorder that makes the person likely to engage in predatory sexually violent offenses.

A mental abnormality is a condition involving a disposition to commit criminal sexual acts of such a degree that it makes the person a menace to others.

A predatory act is an act directed at a stranger or at a person with whom a relationship has been established or promoted for the primary purpose of victimization.