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Panel approves bill adding trafficking, grooming to victims-rights list
Summary
The committee passed House Bill 15-81 to add trafficking of persons and grooming a minor for future trafficking to the list of offenses covered by the victims’ rights provisions; the Attorney General's office clarified the change is narrow and relates to notice and nondisclosure protections.
State Representative Dolly Henley, sponsor of House Bill 15-81, told the House Judiciary Committee the bill would enhance victims’ rights by adding two offenses to the statutory list of covered ‘‘sex offenses’’ (as used in the code): trafficking of persons and grooming a minor for future trafficking.
Henley said the trafficking statute passed in 2013 and the grooming statute passed…
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