California Democrats gut bill making it a felony to solicit child prostitutes

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California Democratic legislators gutted a bill that would have made it a felony to solicit any children for sex, despite support for the measure from California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis.

Assembly Bill 379, a bipartisan bill from Assemblywoman Maggy Krell, D-Sacramento, and State Sen. Shannon Grove, R-Bakersfield, would have closed the loopholes left open by the forced amendments to Grove’s Senate Bill 1414, which passed last year and made it a felony to pay all minors for sex except for those 16 and 17 years old.

National outrage on the bill’s near-shelving put the bill back onto the legislative schedule, and led Newsom and Kounalakis to come out in support of the bill’s existing provisions.

However, Assembly Public Safety Chairman Nick Schultz, D-Burbank, has instead opted “to host info hearings on the issue in the fall” as Democratic legislators voted to forcefully gut the bill against Krell’s wishes to remove the provision making it a felony to purchase sex from all minors.

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