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2015 SESSION
HB 716 Trafficking in persons; penalties.
Introduced by: Jennifer L. McClellan | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
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 also makes sexual servitude an affirmative defense to the crime of prostitution and 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 Prevention of Human Trafficking Victim Fund is created, which will be administered by the Department of Criminal Justice Services.
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HISTORY
- 01/07/14 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/14 14102656D
- 01/07/14 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 01/30/14 House: Assigned Courts sub: Criminal Law
- 02/05/14 House: Subcommittee recommends continuing to 2015 by voice vote
- 02/07/14 House: Continued to 2015 in Courts of Justice by voice vote
- 12/04/14 House: Left in Courts of Justice