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HB 2040 Prostitution, pandering, etc.; violation of certain provisions is punishable.

Introduced by: Robert B. Bell | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles | history

SUMMARY AS PASSED:

Pandering; minors; penalty. Increases from a Class 4 felony to a Class 3 felony the penalty for pandering involving a minor.

SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE:

Pandering; minors; penalty. Increases from a Class 4 felony to a Class 3 felony the penalty for pandering involving a minor.

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Prostitution; procuring; receiving money; pandering; recruitment; conspiracy; Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry; penalty. Increases from a Class 4 felony to a Class 3 felony the penalty for (i) receiving money from the earnings of a prostitute who is a minor; (ii) procuring a minor for prostitution or for engaging in forced labor or services, concubinage, prostitution, or the manufacture of any obscene material or child pornography; or (iii) pandering involving a minor. The bill also criminalizes recruiting a person to engage in prostitution, which is punishable as a Class 6 felony or, if the person recruited is a minor, as a Class 5 felony. If force or a threat of force is used to recruit a person to engage in prostitution, the penalties increase to a Class 4 felony or, if the person recruited is a minor, to a Class 3 felony. The bill also adds transporting a person for purposes of prostitution or unlawful sexual intercourse or for a compelled marriage to the crime of pandering and provides that a person may be guilty of pandering regardless of where a person is taken or transported, instead of only a bawdy place as provided for under current law. The bill adds to the Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry all of the crimes described above that involve a minor except for pandering involving a minor, which is already a registrable offense. Finally, the bill adds penalties for conspiracy specific to certain prostitution-related crimes punishable as felonies, the penalties for which vary with the severity of the underlying crime. The bill also adds the new felonies for recruitment and conspiracy as predicate criminal acts under the criminal street gang statute and as racketeering crimes and adds the investigation of the new felonies for recruitment and conspiracy and the existing crimes for pandering, and receiving money from the earnings of a prostitute to the functions of a multijurisdiction grand jury. The bill also allows seizure and forfeiture of property used in committing the new felonies.