SB 1312 Summary

• Clarifies definition of "profits from prostitution" to mean knowingly accepting or receiving money or property from a third party for participating in prostitution proceeds, regardless of whether amounts exceed expenditures or represent reimbursement.

• Separates sex trafficking offense into two distinct provisions: (a) compelling or inducing persons into prostitution through force, threat, fraud, coercion or intimidation; and (b) profiting from prostitution resulting from such compulsion, with class A felony penalty for both.

• Adds affirmative defense preventing conviction for sex trafficking and promoting prostitution when defendant's conduct consists exclusively of their own acts as a prostituted person or in commercial sexual exploitation.

• Updates child abuse and sexual abuse definitions to reference amended section 712-1202(1)(c) instead of 712-1202(1)(b) to align with restructured sex trafficking statute.

• Makes technical amendments to prostitution statutes including renumbering subsections, clarifying definitions of "advances prostitution" and "sexual conduct," and removing redundant definitional language throughout chapters 350, 588, and 712.

• Takes effect July 1, 2025.