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Colorado Democrats Introduce Bill to Legalize Prostitution
The bill would repeal criminal penalties for consensual commercial sex and create licensing and regulatory frameworks while maintaining felony charges for pimping, proponents say it improves safety.
- SB26-097, sponsored by Senate Majority Whip Nick Hinrichsen and others, would decriminalize commercial sexual activity across Colorado, taking effect this July.
- Sponsors say current penalties endanger consenting adults and discourage victims from reporting crimes, while proponents argue decriminalization improves sex-worker safety and critics warn research links prostitution to trafficking.
- Under the bill, lawmakers would repeal offenses including prostitution and soliciting but keep pimping a class three felony, require written contracts signed by purchaser and escort, and have escort bureau or local licensing authority keep public contract records while licensing authorities consider criminal records.
- Local officials and Pitkin County Republicans responded by calling it a `power grab` and warning of trafficking and budget risks, with the measure set to take effect on July 1, 2026.
- The bill is now assigned to the Senate Judiciary Committee and a review of studies shows decriminalization can improve sex-worker safety, with Maine's law serving as a precedent.
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Prostitution Could Be Fully Legal in Blue State
Colorado Democrats are pushing an effort to decriminalize prostitution in the state. Under Senate Bill 26-097, “An adult who engages in consensual commercial sexual activity with another adult does not violate state law or an ordinance, resolution, regulation, or code adopted by a statutory or home rule city, town, city and county, or county.” “Criminalizing prostitution endangers adults who engage in consensual sexual activity,” the bill reads.…
Colorado would become first state to remove all criminal penalties for prostitution under bill brought by group of Democrats
While prostitution is legal in Nevada at licensed brothels in certain counties, and Maine decriminalized the selling of sexual services, no state has fully removed the criminal penalties for prostitution
One state’s ‘extreme left-wing of Dem majority’ calling for prostitution to be decriminalized * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh
Source link Colorado Democrats want prostitution to be legal across the state, and are working that direction, with a Democrat governor, Democrat majorities in the House and Senate, and an all-Democrat state Supreme Court in their arsenal of weapons. “This month Senators Nick Hinrichson and Lisa Cutter, along with Representatives Lorena Garcia and Rebekah Stewart,
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