Concerning cybercrime, and, in connection therewith, criminalizing using a computer to engage in prostitution of a minor, criminalizing skimming payment cards, making changes to the penalty structure for cybercrime, and making an appropriation.
The bill changes the name of the crime computer crime to cybercrime. The bill makes soliciting, arranging, or offering to arrange a situation in which a minor may engage in prostitution, by means of using a computer, computer network, computer system, or any part thereof, a cybercrime. The bill makes stealing the information from a credit card magnetic strip or placing different information on a credit card magnetic strip without permission and with the intent to defraud a cybercrime. The bill makes changes to the penalty structure for cybercrime.
The bill makes conforming amendments.
The bill appropriates from the general fund to the department of corrections:
- For the 2019-20 state fiscal year, twenty-two thousand seventy-two dollars;
- For the 2020-21 state fiscal year, thirty-four thousand six hundred seventy-seven dollars;
- For the 2021-22 state fiscal year, thirty-nine thousand three hundred thirty-four dollars; and
- For the 2022-23 state fiscal year, thirty-nine thousand three hundred thirty-four dollars.
(Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)