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Relating to the crime of prostitution and making penalties applicable
Topics:Courts & civil law
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 27, 2021
- 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 2022 session adjourned on May 24, 2022, 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 the crime of prostitution, and makes penalties applicable.1(1), an aggravated misdemeanor for an adult and a delinquent act for a person under the age of 18. If the person who sells or offers for sale the person’s services as a partner in a sex act is under the age of 18, the county attorney may elect, in lieu of filing a petition alleging that the person has committed a delinquent act, to refer that person to the department of human services for the possible filing of a petition alleging that the person is a child in need of assistance.
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1(2) as a person who purchases or offers to purchase another person’s services as a partner in a sex act, an aggravated misdemeanor, except that a person who purchases or offers to purchase services as a partner in a sex act from a person who is under the age of commits a class “D” felony. A class “D” felony is punishable by confinement for no more than five years and a fine of at least $1,025 but not more than $10,245. An aggravated misdemeanor is punishable by confinement for no more than two years and a fine of at least $855 but no more than $8,540.1(1) for a person who sells or offers for sale the person’s services as a partner in a sex act. The bill maintains current language that provides that a person who purchases or offers to purchase another person’s services as a partner in a sex act commits an aggravated misdemeanor, except that if a person purchases or offers to purchase another person’s services as a partner in a sex act from another person who is under the age of the person commits a class “D” felony, but renames this crime as “the purchase or offer to purchase another person’s services as a partner in a sex act”. Current law defines “commercial sexual activity” for purposes of human trafficking in Code chapter 710A as any sex act or sexually explicit performance for which anything of value is given, promised to, or received by any person and includes but is not limited to prostitution, participation in the production of pornography, and performance in strip clubs. The bill amends the definition to provide that “commercial sexual activity” means any sex act or sexually explicit performance for which anything of value is given, promised to, or received by any person and includes but is not limited to the purchase or offer to purchase another person’s services as a partner in a sex act, participation in the production of pornography, and performance in strip clubs. The bill makes conforming Code changes to remove the word “prostitute” and replaces it with the phrase “person who offers to purchase another person’s services as a partner in a sex act”. The bill makes additional conforming Code changes.