Bill Text: CA AB2424 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prostitution.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2014-07-09 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 109, Statutes of 2014. [AB2424 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB2424-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 2424	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Campos

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2014

   An act to amend Section 266a of the Penal Code, relating to
prostitution.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2424, as introduced, Campos. Prostitution.
   Existing law makes it a misdemeanor to solicit or agree to engage
in or engage in any act of prostitution. Each person who, within this
state, takes any person against his or her will and without his or
her consent, or with his or her consent procured by fraudulent
inducement or misrepresentation, for the purpose of prostitution is
punishable by imprisonment in the state prison, and a fine not
exceeding $2,000.
   This bill would instead limit the fine from exceeding $10,000.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 266a of the Penal Code is amended to read:
   266a.   Every   Each  person who, within
this state, takes any person against his or her will and without his
or her consent, or with his or her consent procured by fraudulent
inducement or misrepresentation, for the purpose of prostitution, as
defined in subdivision (b) of Section 647, is punishable by
imprisonment in the state prison, and a fine not exceeding 
two thousand dollars ($2,000)   ten thousand dollars
($10,000)  .