Report Title:

Soliciting Prostitution

Description:

Allows the court to require the pictures of persons convicted of soliciting prostitution to be run in the local newspaper.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	999
TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2007
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

RELATING TO PROSTITUTION.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

     SECTION 1.  Section 712-1207, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (4) to read as follows:

     "(4)  Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, any person violating this section shall be guilty of a petty misdemeanor and shall be sentenced to a mandatory term of thirty days imprisonment.  The term of imprisonment shall be imposed immediately, regardless of whether the defendant appeals the conviction, except as provided in subsection (5).  In addition, the court may require that the photograph of any person convicted under this section be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the county in which the person was convicted, at the expense of the person convicted."

     SECTION 2.  This Act does not affect rights and duties that matured, penalties that were incurred, and proceedings that were begun, before its effective date.

     SECTION 3.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:

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