Committee advances bill redefining 'profit' from prostitution with technical amendments
SB3071, which clarifies profits from prostitution and creates an affirmative defense for certain lawful transactions, moved forward after prosecutors and the Attorney General supported revisions and the public defender warned the language risks prosecuting people without the required criminal intent.
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SB3071 seeks to refine trafficking and promoting-prostitution statutes by clarifying what constitutes "profits from prostitution" and by creating an affirmative defense for certain lawful transactions. Deputy Attorney General Mark Tom told the committee the bill refines definitions in Part I of chapter 712, clarifies profits, and adds an affirmative defense to avoid unintentionally criminalizing nonculpable conduct.
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