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Committee approves recodification changes to juvenile prostitution offenses
Summary
The committee adopted the sponsor’s substitute and voted to favorably recommend HB 22, a recodification bill that clarifies actors and aligns penalties for prostitution-related offenses between juveniles and adults.
The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously favorably recommended first‑substitute House Bill 22, a recodification and clarification of prostitution‑related offenses that aligns penalty gradations between adults and juveniles in the juvenile code.
Representative Gwen, presenting the substitute, said the recodification panel recommended the technical statutory cleanups and parity adjustments; the substitute makes the actor roles clearer and brings juvenile‑code penalties into alignment with related offenses. The sponsor said the recodification committee’s work is not intended to change policy, only to clarify statutory structure where juvenile‑code and adult statutes were inconsistent.
There was no public testimony recorded in committee and no amendments were proposed; the committee took a unanimous vote to send the first‑substitute HB 22 to the Senate floor with a favorable recommendation.
