Bill > SB999

This bill modifies various provisions related to vulnerable persons and criminal offenses, including the "Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act" which ensures that a child born alive during or after an abortion has all the rights of other persons and that any act to kill such a child is considered first-degree murder. It also expands the Pregnancy-Associated Mortality Review Board's responsibilities to identify "maternity care deserts" (areas with limited or no access to maternity care) and requires data collected on maternal deaths to be disaggregated by various demographic factors. The bill also updates laws concerning protection orders to include "cyberstalking," revises definitions and penalties for various assault and harassment offenses to include new categories like "bodily harm" and "great bodily harm," and introduces new offenses for cyberharassment and cyberstalking, as well as the disclosure of intimate digital depictions and sadistic online exploitation. Additionally, it allows prosecuting or circuit attorneys to request assistance from the attorney general for prosecutions involving offenses that cross multiple jurisdictions.