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SB 1188 Commercial sex trafficking; penalties.
Introduced by: Mark D. Obenshain | 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 HB 1964.
FULL TEXT
- 01/13/15 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/14/15 15103242D pdf | impact statement
- 01/28/15 Senate: Committee substitute printed 15104508D-S1 pdf | impact statement
- 02/03/15 Senate: Committee substitute printed 15104579D-S2 pdf | impact statements
- 02/11/15 House: Committee substitute printed 15105039D-H1 pdf | impact statement
- 02/26/15 Senate: Conference substitute printed 15105552D-S3 pdf | impact statement
- 03/06/15 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1188ER) pdf | impact statements
- 03/27/15 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0691) pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/13/15 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/14/15 15103242D
- 01/13/15 Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 01/28/15 Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (14-Y 0-N)
- 01/28/15 Senate: Committee substitute printed 15104508D-S1
- 01/28/15 Senate: Rereferred to Finance
- 02/03/15 Senate: Committee substitute printed 15104579D-S2
- 02/03/15 Senate: Reported from Finance with substitute (13-Y 0-N)
- 02/04/15 Senate: Incorporates SB710
- 02/04/15 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
- 02/05/15 Senate: Read second time
- 02/05/15 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/05/15 Senate: Committee substitute rejected 15104508D-S1
- 02/05/15 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/05/15 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 15104579D-S2
- 02/05/15 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1188S2
- 02/05/15 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- 02/05/15 Senate: Passed Senate (37-Y 0-N)
- 02/09/15 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/09/15 House: Read first time
- 02/09/15 House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 02/09/15 House: Assigned App. sub: Public Safety
- 02/11/15 House: Reported from Appropriations with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
- 02/11/15 House: Committee substitute printed 15105039D-H1
- 02/11/15 House: Incorporates SB710
- 02/12/15 House: Read second time
- 02/13/15 House: Read third time
- 02/13/15 House: Committee substitute agreed to 15105039D-H1
- 02/13/15 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB1188H1
- 02/13/15 House: Passed House with substitute BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N)
- 02/13/15 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (97-Y 0-N)
- 02/17/15 Senate: House substitute rejected by Senate (1-Y 37-N)
- 02/18/15 House: House insisted on substitute
- 02/18/15 House: House requested conference committee
- 02/20/15 Senate: Senate acceded to request (38-Y 0-N)
- 02/20/15 Senate: Conferees appointed by Senate
- 02/20/15 Senate: Senators: Obenshain, Howell, McDougle
- 02/23/15 House: Conferees appointed by House
- 02/23/15 House: Delegates: Hugo, Bell, Robert B., Watts
- 02/26/15 Conference: Amended by conference committee
- 02/26/15 Senate: Conference substitute printed 15105552D-S3
- 02/26/15 House: Conference report agreed to by House (97-Y 0-N)
- 02/26/15 House: VOTE: ADOPTION (97-Y 0-N)
- 02/27/15 Senate: Conference report agreed to by Senate (36-Y 0-N)
- 03/06/15 Senate: Enrolled
- 03/06/15 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1188ER)
- 03/06/15 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/07/15 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/10/15 Senate: 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 691 (effective 7/1/15)
- 03/27/15 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0691)