HB 1083 – Child Solicitation & Trafficking Study

Rep. Crouch’s HB 1083 passed the House on a unanimous vote. It requires the criminal code evaluation commission to study whether there should be an increased penalty for a person who is at least 21 to solicit a child less than 14 years of age; and to study whether we should have a crime of “promotion of child trafficking.” Somewhat interestingly, this is a watered down version of the introduced bill which would have gone ahead and made these amendments to the criminal code.