Bill Title: Criminal law matters. Changes the human and sexual trafficking statute by: (1) reclassifying the term "human and sexual trafficking" to "human trafficking", which includes the offenses of labor and sexual trafficking; (2) creating separate offenses for labor and sexual trafficking and renaming certain crimes; (3) removing the element of force from forced labor, marriage, prostitution, and participating in sexual conduct; (4) removing involuntary servitude from the human trafficking statute; (5) removing from the sexual trafficking statute the element that a solicitor must know that a person is a human trafficking victim before committing the offense; and (6) adding elements to

Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 34-18)

Status: (Passed) 2018-03-19 - Public Law 144 [HB1270 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [PDF]

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Voting Records

Chamber	Vote	Date	Yea	Nay	NV	Abs	Total	Result	Source	View
Senate	Senate - Conference Committee Report 1	2018-03-14	44	4	1	1	50	Passed	Link	View
House	House - Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1	2018-03-13	98	0	1	1	100	Passed	Link	View
Senate	Senate - Third reading	2018-02-27	50	0	0	0	50	Passed	Link	View
Senate	Senate - Committee Vote	2018-02-20	8	0	0	0	8	Passed	Link	View
House	House - Third reading	2018-01-31	94	0	1	5	100	Passed	Link	View
House	House - Committee Vote	2018-01-24	10	0	0	3	13	Passed	Link	View