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2022 SESSION
HB 475 Protective orders; human trafficking and sex trafficking, penalty.
Introduced by: Kathleen Murphy | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Protective orders; petition; human trafficking and sex trafficking; penalty. Adds to the definitions of "family abuse" and "act of violence, force, or threat" used in the protective order provisions that acts of violence, force, or threat include acts in furtherance of human trafficking or commercial sex trafficking. The bill also allows a minor to petition for a protective order on his own behalf without the consent of a parent or guardian and without doing so by next friend.
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HISTORY
- 01/11/22 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101278D
- 01/11/22 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/15/22 House: Left in Courts of Justice