Missouri legislation · 2026 Regular Session
Missouri HB2450: Decriminalizes certain prostitution offenses and establishes the offense of commercial sexual exploitation
Status: In committee, May 15, 2026
What the bill says
An act would result in serious bodily or financial harm to or physical restraint of any person; (c) The abuse or threatened abuse of law or legal process; (d) Withholding, destroying, or confiscating any actual or purported passport, immigration document, or any other government identification document of another person; (e) Providing a drug, including alcohol, to another person with the intent to impair the person's judgment or maintain a state of chemical dependence; (f) Wrongfully taking, obtaining, or withholding any property of another person; (g) Blackmail; (h) Asserting control over the.
From the introduced text:
an act would result in serious bodily or financial harm to or physical restraint of any person; (c) The abuse or threatened abuse of law or legal process; (d) Withholding, destroying, or confiscating any actual or purported passport, immigration document, or any other government identification document of another person; (e) Providing a drug, including alcohol, to another person with the intent to impair the person's judgment or maintain a state of chemical dependence; (f) Wrongfully taking, obtaining, or withholding any property of another person; (g) Blackmail; (h) Asserting control over the finances of another person; or (i) Withholding or threatening to withhold food or medication; (2) "Commercial sex act", any sex act, which includes sexual penetration, masturbation, or sexual activity, on account of which anything of value is given to, promised, or received by any person; (3) "Sexual activity", any: (a) Knowing touching or fondling by another person, either directly or through clothing, of the sex organs, anus, or breast of the victim or another person for the purpose of sexual gratification or arousal; (b) Transfer or transmission of semen upon any part of the clothed or unclothed body of a person for the purpose of sexual gratification or arousal of another; (c) Act of urination within a sexual context; (d) Bondage, fetter, sadism, or masochism; or (e) Sadomasochism abuse …