Massachusetts H 1758

This bill creates a “Human Trafficking Prevention and Sex Worker Project”, which aims to prevent and eliminate human trafficking while supporting the health, safety, and autonomy of sex workers. Additionally, it establishes an interagency committee to study the decriminalization of sex work, and it allows individuals reporting crimes to be protected from certain charges related to sex work offenses.

New York A 7175

To repeal statutes that criminalize sex work between consenting adults, but keep laws relating to minors or trafficking, and to provide for criminal record relief for people convicted of crimes repealed under this bill.

California AB 1726

Declares all former convictions for loitering with the intent to commit prostitution and for prostitution with a prior conviction by a person who knew they had acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) legally invalid based on constitutional error.