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Assembly Bill | No. 1737 |
Introduced by Assembly Member Cunningham |
January 03, 2018 |
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The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 266i of the Penal Code is amended to read:(a)Except as provided in subdivision (b), any person who does any of the following is guilty of pandering, a felony, and shall be punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for three, four, or six years:
(1)Procures another person for the purpose of prostitution.
(2)By promises, threats, violence, or by any device or scheme, causes, induces, persuades, or encourages another person to become a prostitute.
(3)Procures for another person a place as an inmate in a house of prostitution or as an inmate of any place in which prostitution is encouraged or
allowed within this state.
(4)By promises, threats, violence, or by any device or scheme, causes, induces, persuades, or encourages an inmate of a house of prostitution, or any other place in which prostitution is encouraged or allowed, to remain therein as an inmate.
(5)By fraud or artifice, or by duress of person or goods, or by abuse of any position of confidence or authority, procures another person for the purpose of prostitution, or to enter any place in which prostitution is encouraged or allowed within this state, or to come into this state or leave this state for the purpose of prostitution.
(6)Receives or gives, or agrees to receive or give, any money or thing of value for procuring, or attempting to procure, another person for the purpose of prostitution, or to come into this state or leave this state
for the purpose of prostitution.
266i.
(a) A person who arranges, causes, encourages, induces, persuades, or procures another person to be a prostitute, with the intent that the other person engage in an act of prostitution, is guilty of pandering, a felony. Except as provided in subdivision (b), pandering shall be punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for three, four, or six years.