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Introduced Session

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.

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Timothy Hugo (R)*,  David Albo (R),  Richard Anderson (R),  Terry Austin (R),  Richard Bell (R),  Robert Bell (R),  Mark Berg (R),  David Bulova (D),  Kathy Byron (R),  Jeffrey Campbell (R),  Mark Cole (R),  Marvin Cox (R),  Glenn Davis (R),  Bill DeSteph (R),  James Edmunds (R),  Peter Farrell (R),  Hyland Fowler (R),  Michael Futrell (D),  T. Scott Garrett (R),  C. Todd Gilbert (R),  Thomas Greason (R),  Chris Head (R),  Gordon Helsel (R),  M. Keith Hodges (R),  William Howell (R),  Riley Ingram (R),  S. Chris Jones (R),  Mark Keam (D),  Terry Kilgore (R),  Barry Knight (R),  Kaye Kory (D),  R. Steven Landes (R),  David LaRock (R),  James Leftwich (R),  James LeMunyon (R),  L. Scott Lingamfelter (R),  Robert Marshall (R),  Jimmie Massie (R),  Jenn McClellan (D),  J. Randall Minchew (R),  James Morefield (R),  Kathleen Murphy (D),  John O'Bannon (R),  Israel O'Quinn (R),  Robert Orrock (R),  Christopher Peace (R),  Todd Pillion (R),  David Ramadan (R),  Margaret Ransone (R),  Sam Rasoul (D),  Roxann Robinson (R),  L. Nick Rush (R),  Thomas Rust (R),  Marcus Simon (D),  Christopher Stolle (R),  Scott Taylor (R),  Ronald Villanueva (R),  Jeion Ward (D),  Lee Ware (R),  Tony Wilt (R),  David Yancey (R),  Joseph Yost (R), 

Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0690) (on 03/27/2015)

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