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HB 1964 Commercial sex trafficking; penalties.
Introduced by: Timothy D. Hugo | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)
Commercial sex trafficking; penalties. Creates new felonies for trafficking of persons for commercial sexual activity. The bill provides that any person who solicits, invites, recruits, encourages, or otherwise causes or attempts to cause a person to engage in prostitution with the intent to receive money or other valuable thing or to assist another in receiving money or other valuable thing from the earnings of the solicited person from an act of prostitution is guilty of a Class 5 felony. Felonies are increased if such behavior is done by an adult and the person solicited is a minor (Class 3 felony) and if force, intimidation, or deception is used against the person solicited (Class 4 felony). The new crime was added to the definition of violent felony for the purposes of the sentencing guidelines, predicate criminal acts for street gangs, the Virginia Racketeer Influence and Corrupt Organization Act, multijurisdiction grand jury, and asset forfeiture and, if a minor is solicited, the Sex Offender Registry. The bill also amends two existing Code sections on receiving money for procuring a person for prostitution and receiving money from the earnings of a person engaged in prostitution to increase penalties if the crime involves a minor. This bill is identical to SB 1188.
FULL TEXT
- 01/13/15 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/14/15 15103251D pdf | impact statements
- 02/04/15 House: Committee substitute printed 15104694D-H1 pdf | impact statement
- 02/16/15 Senate: Committee substitute printed 15105142D-S1 pdf | impact statement
- 02/26/15 House: Conference substitute printed 15105591D-H2 pdf | impact statement
- 03/06/15 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1964ER) pdf | impact statements
- 03/27/15 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0690) pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/13/15 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/14/15 15103251D
- 01/13/15 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 01/30/15 House: Assigned Courts sub: Criminal Law
- 02/02/15 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (9-Y 0-N)
- 02/02/15 House: Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
- 02/04/15 House: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (20-Y 0-N)
- 02/04/15 House: Committee substitute printed 15104694D-H1
- 02/04/15 House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 02/06/15 House: Assigned App. sub: Public Safety
- 02/06/15 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N)
- 02/06/15 House: Reported from Appropriations (20-Y 0-N)
- 02/07/15 House: Read first time
- 02/09/15 House: Read second time
- 02/09/15 House: Committee substitute agreed to 15104694D-H1
- 02/09/15 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1964H1
- 02/10/15 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N)
- 02/10/15 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (100-Y 0-N)
- 02/11/15 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/11/15 Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/16/15 Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (13-Y 0-N)
- 02/16/15 Senate: Committee substitute printed 15105142D-S1
- 02/17/15 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- 02/18/15 Senate: Read third time
- 02/18/15 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/18/15 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 15105142D-S1
- 02/18/15 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB1964S1
- 02/18/15 Senate: Passed Senate with substitute (38-Y 0-N)
- 02/19/15 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/20/15 House: Senate substitute rejected by House 15105142D-S1 (1-Y 95-N)
- 02/20/15 House: VOTE: REJECTED (1-Y 95-N)
- 02/24/15 Senate: Senate insisted on substitute (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/24/15 Senate: Senate requested conference committee
- 02/25/15 House: House acceded to request
- 02/25/15 House: Conferees appointed by House
- 02/25/15 House: Delegates: Hugo, Bell, Robert B., Watts
- 02/25/15 Senate: Conferees appointed by Senate
- 02/25/15 Senate: Senators: Obenshain, Howell, McDougle
- 02/26/15 Conference: Amended by conference committee
- 02/26/15 House: Conference substitute printed 15105591D-H2
- 02/26/15 House: Conference report agreed to by House (96-Y 0-N)
- 02/26/15 House: VOTE: ADOPTION (96-Y 0-N)
- 02/27/15 Senate: Conference report agreed to by Senate (37-Y 0-N)
- 03/06/15 House: Enrolled
- 03/06/15 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1964ER)
- 03/06/15 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/07/15 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/10/15 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 3/10/15
- 03/10/15 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, Sunday, March 29, 2015
- 03/27/15 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 690 (effective 7/1/15)
- 03/27/15 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0690)