No. HB 1467
Filed under Healthcare.
Penalties for Prostitution and Related Acts; Revises penalties for certain offenses.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDA first offense under most of this law's provisions becomes a first-degree misdemeanor instead of a second-degree misdemeanor. A second offense becomes a felony instead of a misdemeanor. A third or later offense becomes a second-degree felony instead of third-degree.
Buying sex, running a place of prostitution, transporting someone into it, and aiding those acts all move onto that harsher schedule. Engaging in prostitution yourself, or merely being present for that purpose, keeps the old, lighter numbers under its own track.
Repeat offenders in that lighter group used to be guaranteed an offer of pretrial diversion or substance-abuse treatment instead of straight prosecution on a third offense. That guarantee is repealed outright, with nothing put in its place.
Offenses at a licensed or unlicensed massage establishment already get bumped up one degree. That bump now lands one degree higher across the board too: a third offense there becomes a first-degree felony instead of second-degree.
AIA first offense becomes a first-degree misdemeanor instead of second-degree, a second offense becomes a third-degree felony instead of a misdemeanor, and a third or later offense becomes a second-degree felony instead of third-degree.
AIThe general, now-harsher penalty schedule applies to everything except personally engaging in prostitution and being present in a place for that purpose; those two offenses instead get their own subsection carrying the lighter schedule the general track used to have.
AIA third-time offender outside the solicitation offense used to have to be offered pretrial intervention or substance-abuse treatment instead of straight prosecution. That requirement is struck with no substitute put in its place.
AIWhen the offense happens at a place that is or should be licensed as a massage establishment, the degree is already bumped up one level; that bump now lands one degree higher than before at every repeat tier, up to a first-degree felony on a third offense.