LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) – A Nebraska state senator plans to withdraw his proposal to make unwanted mouth-kissing a sex crime.
Lincoln Sen. Bill Avery was scheduled to pull his bill Tuesday after questions arose about how authorities would enforce it.
The measure (LB797) would have counted mouth-kissing without consent as sexual contact for purposes of filing a sexual assault charge.
Avery said earlier this week that the bill sought to address a serious matter. He proposed it after a man approached one of his constituents while she was mowing a lawn, offered her water, and then kissed her on the lips without permission.
The female’s family members later learned that the man was a sex predator, but authorities could only charge him with disturbing the peace.

MCCOOK, Neb. (AP) – A father and son convicted of causing a crash that injured four people in southwest Nebraska have been sentenced to prison.
Fifty-three-year-old Leslie Sides and his son, 26-year-old Eric Sides, had pleaded no contest to two felony counts and two misdemeanor counts of assault. In return, prosecutors dropped several charges.
The two were sentenced on Monday. Eric Sides was given a combined 11-to-15 years in prison. His father was sentenced to a combined six-to-nine years.
Prosecutors say the Sides got into their trucks on Aug. 19, 2010, and chased a vehicle that had driven through the horseshoe driveway at the Sides’ home in rural Bartley. The vehicle was knocked into a spin, and it overturned.
Four people in it were injured.