New Jersey S 899: Requires public hearings on proposed off-track wagering facilities to be held in municipalities contiguous to site where proposed facilities will be located.

Bill Text

S899 

SENATE, No. 899 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Senator MICHAEL L. TESTA, JR.

District 1 (Atlantic, Cape May and Cumberland)

SYNOPSIS

���� Directs fines collected for certain prostitution 
crime to "Human Trafficking Survivor's Assistance Fund."

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT 

���� Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative 
Counsel.

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An Act concerning human trafficking and amending 
N.J.S.2C:34-1.

���� Be It 
Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of 
the State of New Jersey:

���� 1.��� N.J.S.2C:34-1 is amended 
to read as follows:

���� 2C:34-1.� Prostitution and 
Related Offenses.

���� a.���� As used in this 
section:

���� (1)�� "Prostitution" 
is sexual activity with another person in exchange for something of economic 
value, or the offer or acceptance of an offer to engage in sexual activity in 
exchange for something of economic value.

���� (2)�� "Sexual 
activity" includes, but is not limited to, sexual intercourse, including 
genital-genital, oral-genital, anal-genital, and oral-anal contact, whether 
between persons of the same or opposite sex; masturbation; touching of the 
genitals, buttocks, or female breasts; sadistic or masochistic abuse and other 
deviate sexual relations.

���� (3)�� "House of 
prostitution" is any place where prostitution or promotion of prostitution 
is regularly carried on by one person under the control, management or 
supervision of another.

���� (4)�� "Promoting 
prostitution" is:

���� (a)�� Owning, controlling, 
managing, supervising or otherwise keeping, alone or in association with 
another, a house of prostitution or a prostitution business;

���� (b)�� Procuring an inmate for 
a house of prostitution or place in a house of prostitution for one who would 
be an inmate;

���� (c)�� Encouraging, inducing, 
or otherwise purposely causing another to become or remain a prostitute;

���� (d)�� Soliciting a person to 
patronize a prostitute;

���� (e)�� Procuring a prostitute 
for a patron;

���� (f)�� Transporting a person 
into or within this State with purpose to promote that person's engaging in 
prostitution, or procuring or paying for transportation with that purpose; or

���� (g)�� Knowingly leasing or 
otherwise permitting a place controlled by the actor, alone or in association 
with others, to be regularly used for prostitution or promotion of 
prostitution, or failure to make a reasonable effort to abate such use by 
ejecting the tenant, notifying law enforcement authorities, or other legally 
available means.

���� b.��� A person commits an 
offense if:

���� (1)�� The actor engages in 
prostitution as a patron;

���� (2)�� The actor promotes 
prostitution;

���� (3)�� The actor knowingly 
promotes prostitution of a child under 18 whether or not the actor mistakenly 
believed that the child was 18 years of age or older, even if such mistaken 
belief was reasonable;

���� (4)�� The actor knowingly 
promotes prostitution of the actor's child, ward, or any other person for whose 
care the actor is responsible;

���� (5)�� The actor compels 
another to engage in or promote prostitution;

���� (6)�� The actor promotes 
prostitution of the actor's spouse; 

���� (7)�� The actor knowingly 
engages in prostitution with a person under the age of 18, or if the actor 
enters into or remains in a house of prostitution for the purpose of engaging 
in sexual activity with a child under the age of 18, or if the actor solicits 
or requests a child under the age of 18 to engage in sexual activity. It shall 
be no defense to a prosecution under this paragraph that the actor mistakenly 
believed that the child was 18 years of age or older, even if such mistaken 
belief was reasonable; or

���� (8)�� The actor engages in 
prostitution by personally offering sexual activity in exchange for something 
of economic value. 

���� c.���� Grading of offenses 
under subsection b.

���� (1)�� An offense under 
subsection b. constitutes a crime of the first degree if the offense falls 
within paragraph (3) or (4) of that subsection.

���� (2)�� An offense under 
subsection b. constitutes a crime of the second degree if the offense falls 
within paragraph (7) of that subsection.

���� (3)�� An offense under 
subsection b. constitutes a crime of the third degree if the offense falls 
within paragraph (5) or (6) of that subsection.

���� (4)�� An offense under 
paragraph (2) of subsection b. constitutes a crime of the third degree if the 
conduct falls within subparagraph (a), (b), (c), (f), or (g) of paragraph (4) 
of subsection a. Otherwise the offense is a crime of the fourth degree.

���� (5)�� An offense under 
subsection b. constitutes a disorderly persons offense if the offense falls 
within paragraph (1) of that subsection except that a second or third 
conviction for such an offense constitutes a crime of the fourth degree, and a 
fourth or subsequent conviction for such an offe