Sec. 1. 17-A MRSA §1252, sub-§4-B, ķA, as amended by PL 2003, c. 711, Pt. B, §19, is further amended to read:

A. As used in this section, "repeat sexual assault offender" means a person who commits a new gross sexual assault after having been convicted previously and sentenced for any of the following:

(1) Gross sexual assault, formerly denominated as gross sexual misconduct;

(2) Rape;

(3) Attempted murder accompanied by sexual assault;

(4) Murder accompanied by sexual assault; or

(5) Conduct substantially similar to a crime listed in subparagraph (1), (2), (3) or (4) that is a crime under the laws of the United States or any other state. ; or

(6)__A crime that was initially charged by an attorney for the State as gross sexual assault, gross sexual misconduct, rape, attempted murder accompanied by sexual assault or murder accompanied by sexual assault.

The date of sentencing is the date of the oral pronouncement of the sentence by the trial court, even if an appeal is taken.

SUMMARY

This bill expands the list of prior crimes in the definition of "repeat sexual assault offender" to include offenses that were initially charged by the prosecuting attorney as gross sexual assault, gross sexual misconduct, rape, attempted murder accompanied by sexual assault or murder accompanied by sexual assault, but the conviction was for a different crime.