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2014 SESSION
SB 373 Trafficking in persons; penalties.
Introduced by: John S. Edwards | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (all summaries)
Trafficking in persons; penalties. Creates new felonies for trafficking in persons for forced labor or sexual servitude and adds the new felonies as a predicate criminal act under the criminal gang statute, as racketeering crimes, and to the functions of a multijurisdiction grand jury, and also allows seizure and forfeiture of property used in committing such felonies. The new felonies and the existing felony of receiving money for procuring a person are added to the rape shield statute. The bill allows a petition for a child in need of services to be substituted for a delinquency petition for certain minors arrested for prostitution, disallows the release of certain victim information, specifies law-enforcement protocol for victims who may not be legally present, requires persons convicted of the new felonies to pay restitution that compensates for the victim's labor, and creates a civil action for trafficked persons. The Secretary of Public Safety is required to convene an anti-trafficking committee and the Virginia Human Trafficking Victim Fund is created, which will be administered by the Department of Criminal Justice Services. This bill incorporates SB 453.
FULL TEXT
- 01/07/14 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/14 14102823D pdf | impact statements
- 01/27/14 Senate: Committee substitute printed 14104498D-S1 pdf | impact statement
- 02/04/14 Senate: Committee substitute printed 14104694D-S2 pdf | impact statements
HISTORY
- 01/07/14 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/14 14102823D
- 01/07/14 Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 01/27/14 Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
- 01/27/14 Senate: Committee substitute printed 14104498D-S1
- 01/27/14 Senate: Rereferred to Finance
- 01/28/14 Senate: Incorporates SB453
- 02/04/14 Senate: Reported from Finance with substitute (17-Y 0-N)
- 02/04/14 Senate: Committee substitute printed 14104694D-S2
- 02/05/14 Senate: Incorporates SB453
- 02/05/14 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/06/14 Senate: Read second time
- 02/06/14 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/06/14 Senate: Committee substitute rejected 14104498D-S1
- 02/06/14 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/06/14 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 14104694D-S2
- 02/06/14 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB373S2
- 02/07/14 Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/12/14 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/12/14 House: Read first time
- 02/12/14 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/12/14 House: Assigned Courts sub: Criminal Law
- 02/14/14 House: Subcommittee recommends laying on the table by voice vote
- 03/04/14 House: Left in Courts of Justice