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Relating to live adult entertainment facilities, including creating a human trafficking and child sexual exploitation prevention fund, and providing for the assessment of a surcharge
Topics:Public safety & emergencies
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 14, 2019
- Stopped: SubcommitteeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2020 session adjourned on June 14, 2020, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
This bill relates to live adult entertainment facilities, including creating a human trafficking and child sexual exploitation prevention fund, and providing for the assessment of a surcharge. The bill provides that beginning January 1, 2020, and every year thereafter, an annual surcharge shall be assessed against each live adult entertainment facility in an amount that equals the product of $5 multiplied by the number of customers admitted to the operator’s live adult entertainment facility during the calendar year.
Read the full explanation
The bill provides that beginning January 15, 2021, and every January thereafter, the surcharge as calculated under the bill is due and payable, and shall be paid by the operator to the department of revenue on forms prescribed by the department of revenue. The bill requires the live adult entertainment facility to keep records, receipts, invoices, and other pertinent papers relating to the number of customers entering the facility each calendar year, and open such records for inspection as the director of the department of revenue requires. The bill specifies that revenues from the surcharge shall be deposited into the human trafficking and child exploitation prevention fund created in the bill. The bill defines “live adult entertainment facilities”, “nude or partially clothed person”, and “operator”. The bill creates a human trafficking and child exploitation prevention fund under the control of the department of justice. All moneys deposited or paid into the fund are appropriated and made available to the department of justice to be used to provide grants to governmental and nongovernmental entities and individuals involved with upholding community standards of decency, strengthening families, or developing, expanding, or strengthening programs for child victims of human trafficking to be used for any of the activities as detailed in the bill.