California Committee Forces ‘Hostile’ Amendments on Bipartisan Child Sex Solicitation Bill

Published on April 20, 2024

A proposal to strengthen penalties for those caught soliciting a child for sex in California was amended by force during a contentious hearing in the Senate’s Public Safety Committee April 16. At issue is Senate Bill 1414, authored by state Sen. Shannon Grove and co-authored by a bipartisan cohort, which seeks to make such a felony punishable by up to four years in prison with fines as high as $25,000. Under existing law, such crimes are misdemeanors carrying a minimum of two days in jail and fines up to $10,000. As originally written, the bill would mandate anyone purchasing a child for sex would be liable whether they claimed to know the child was underage or not. It would have additionally ordered those convicted to register as sex offenders for 10 years....

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