Bill > A1702

Introduced Session

The bill expands the reach of the statute by including those individuals who receive a "financial benefit" from participating in human trafficking without necessarily being an "organizer, supervisor, financier or manager" of the enterprise or scheme. Under the current law, a person commits the crime of human trafficking if he: (1) knowingly holds, recruits, lures, entices, harbors, transports, provides or obtains, by any means, another, to engage in unlawful sexual activity or to provide labor or services: ? by threats of serious bodily harm or physical restraint against the person or any other person; ? by means of any scheme, plan or pattern intended to cause the person to believe that the person or any other person would suffer serious bodily harm or physical restraint; ? by criminal coercion; or ? by destroying, concealing, removing, confiscating, or possessing any passport, immigration-related document or other government document; or ? by means of the abuse or threatened abuse of the law or legal process; or (2) receives anything of value from participation as an organizer, supervisor, financier or manager in a scheme or course of conduct which violates paragraph (1) of this subsection.

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Ronald Dancer (R)*,  Valerie Vainieri Huttle (D)*, 

Introduced, Referred to Assembly Judiciary Committee (on 01/09/2018)