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Senate panel advances bill to remove separate pimping-and-pandering charge tied to trafficking of minors
Summary
A Judiciary subcommittee advanced Senate Bill 42, a measure sponsored for the governor and first lady that removes pimping-and-pandering-of-a-minor as a separate charge so conduct would be prosecuted under human-trafficking-of-a-minor statutes with harsher penalties.
The Judiciary subcommittee advanced Senate Bill 42, a measure carried on behalf of the governor and the first lady that removes a separate statutory charge for pimping and pandering of a minor and directs prosecutions and sentencing under the state's human-trafficking-of-a-minor law.
The bill's sponsor told the committee judges in at least two counties have treated pimping and pandering…
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