Prostitution: sanctions.

Existing law provides that a person who solicits or agrees to engage in or engages in lewd or dissolute conduct in public, as specified, or an act of prostitution is guilty of disorderly conduct, a misdemeanor. If a defendant is convicted a 2nd time of an act of prostitution, as specified, existing law requires the defendant to be imprisoned in a county jail for a period of not less than 45 days, as specified, and if the defendant is convicted 3 or more times, that minimum period of imprisonment is not less than 90 days, as specified. This bill would delete those mandatory minimum terms of incarceration imposed for engaging in prohibited acts relating to prostitution. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 647 of the Penal Code, proposed by SB 420, SB 1322, and AB 1708, that would become operative only if this bill and one or more of those other bills are enacted and become effective January 1, 2017, and this bill is chaptered last.