Where the proposed generic federal definition of the crime includes a mens rea element of desire or gratification, a state statute requiring the intent to hire someone for those purposes has sufficiently similar scienter. State decision that an incidental harassing solicitation of passerby demonstrated sufficient intent for a parallel statute did not make the state statute's reach broader than that of the federal crime.
Since 2011. An occasional commonplacing of the U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal.
Neither an authoritative statement of the law nor legal advice. Quick work.