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2024 SESSION
SB 384 Human smuggling; penalties.
Introduced by: Glen H. Sturtevant, Jr. | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (all summaries)
Human smuggling; penalties. Makes it a Class 6 felony for any person who, with the intent to obtain a pecuniary benefit, knowingly and with the intent to evade the immigration laws of the United States uses a motor vehicle, aircraft, watercraft, or other means of conveyance to transport another person in or through the Commonwealth and knows or should have known that such person being transported is likely to be exploited for the financial gain of another.
The bill provides that any person who commits human smuggling (i) in a manner that creates a substantial likelihood that the individual being smuggled will suffer serious bodily injury or death, (ii) by smuggling a child younger than 18 years of age at the time of the offense, or (iii) while knowingly possessing a firearm during the commission of the offense is guilty of a Class 3 felony.
The bill also provides that any person who commits human smuggling and as a direct result of the commission of the offense the individual being smuggled (a) became a victim of human trafficking, commercial sex trafficking, sexual assault, or aggravated sexual assault or (b) suffered serious bodily injury or death is guilty of a Class 2 felony.
FULL TEXT
- 01/09/24 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104832D pdf | impact statement
- 01/24/24 Senate: Committee substitute printed 24106216D-S1 pdf | impact statements
HISTORY
- 01/09/24 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104832D
- 01/09/24 Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 01/10/24 Senate: Moved from Judiciary to Courts of Justice due to a change of the committee name
- 01/24/24 Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
- 01/24/24 Senate: Committee substitute printed 24106216D-S1
- 01/24/24 Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 02/06/24 Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (9-Y 6-N)
- 02/07/24 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/08/24 Senate: Read second time
- 02/08/24 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/08/24 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 24106216D-S1
- 02/08/24 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB384S1
- 02/09/24 Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (33-Y 7-N)
- 02/15/24 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/15/24 House: Read first time
- 02/15/24 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/15/24 House: Assigned Courts sub: Criminal
- 02/16/24 House: Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (5-Y 3-N)
- 03/05/24 House: Left in Courts of Justice