@kara best i can find is this? http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1204 dunno if anyone's written about it yet!

@jenkshields @kara Hmm, this doesn't seem to match the original toot. The linked legislation change is confusing as hell (both the original and the diff) and neither seems to cover harm reduction. Maybe not the right one?

@tindall @jenkshields

"266i. (a) A person who arranges, causes, encourages, induces, persuades, or procures another person to be a prostitute, with the intent that the other person engage in an act of prostitution, is guilty of pandering, a felony, and shall be punished as provided in subdivision (b)."

IANAL but providing monetary or physical (car, food, etc) support for sw could be "encouraging" or "persuading"

@uwunix @tindall yeah I think it could also even be considering "causing"

@jenkshields @tindall

i need a bigger fire extinguisher for this

@uwunix That's... yeah, no, I can see that. It's a stretch but the state loves to stretch :(

@tindall esp in Think Of The Children™ cases 🤦