No. SB 1688
Filed under Healthcare.
Penalties for Prostitution and Related Acts; Revising penalties and criminal penalties for certain offenses, etc.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDFor most prostitution-related violations, a second offense jumps from a misdemeanor to a third-degree felony, and a third or later offense rises from a third-degree to a second-degree felony.
This general penalty increase covers buying sex, aiding or abetting prostitution, and owning or operating a place used for it, unless the specific offense falls under two carved-out paragraphs of the law.
Whatever offenses fall under those two carved-out paragraphs get the opposite treatment: penalties for those violations drop instead of rise, moving in the reverse direction of every other violation in the same statute.
Also removes the existing offer of a pretrial intervention or substance abuse program for people charged with a third or later violation, and updates felony citations that trigger automatic license suspension for health care practitioners and massage therapists.
AIFor violations other than two carved-out paragraphs of the law, a second offense jumps from a misdemeanor to a third-degree felony, and a third or later offense rises from a third-degree to a second-degree felony.
AIFor whatever conduct falls under paragraphs (2)(e) and (2)(g), penalties move the opposite way: a second offense drops from a felony to a misdemeanor, and a third or later offense drops from a second-degree to a third-degree felony.
AIPeople charged with a third or later violation no longer have a guaranteed offer of admission to a pretrial intervention or substance abuse treatment program; that option is removed outright, not replaced with anything.
AIWhen the place used for prostitution is a massage establishment that is or should be licensed, a third or later violation is bumped one more degree above the already-raised general-track penalty, reaching a first-degree felony.
AIThe paragraph singled out for the separate penalty track changes from just (2)(f) alone to both (2)(e) and (2)(g), meaning the specific conduct covered by the harsher and lighter tracks is not the same as before.
AIBecause the felony degree for a third or later general-track violation changes from third-degree to second-degree, the citations that trigger emergency license suspension for health care practitioners and massage therapists are updated to match.