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Committee approves tougher minimums for child sex trafficking and narrows labor-trafficking enhancements
Summary
Second-substitute House Bill 405 increases mandatory minimums for trafficking children and retains aggravated-trafficking provisions while removing a labor-trafficking sentence enhancement; witnesses debated whether remaining definitions could still reach labor cases.
The Senate Judiciary committee adopted a second substitute and favorably recommended House Bill 405, a bill amending penalties for human trafficking offenses involving sexual exploitation of children and retaining aggravated-trafficking aggravators while removing an earlier proposed enhancement for labor trafficking.
Representative Perucci, sponsor of HB 405, said the second substitute narrows the bill to concentrate on sexual exploitation and aggravated human trafficking of a child and removes enhancements tied to smuggling or general labor…
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