KY HB3 | 2013 | Regular Session
Status
Completed Legislative Action
Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Passed on March 19 2013 - 100% progression
Action: 2013-03-19 - signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 25)
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #3) [MS Word]
Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Passed on March 19 2013 - 100% progression
Action: 2013-03-19 - signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 25)
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #3) [MS Word]
Summary
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 620 to require that a child who is suspected to be a human trafficking victim be treated as a case of dependency, neglect, or abuse, and provide requirements for how to handle these cases, require the creation of administrative regulations, and require an annual report; amend KRS 620.040 to clarify duties of various agencies in child human trafficking cases and allow protective custody by law enforcement; create a new section of KRS Chapter 15A to provide requirements for the Department of Juvenile Justice when a child is suspected to be a victim of human trafficking and require promulgation of administrative regulations; amend KRS 605.030 to permit court-designated workers to screen for human trafficking; create a new section of KRS Chapter 630 to prohibit a child victim of human trafficking from being charged with or adjudicated guilty of a status offense; amend KRS 529.010 to amend the definitions relating to prostitution and human trafficking; create a new section of KRS Chapter 529 to create a fee for a conviction of human trafficking offenses; create a new section of KRS Chapter 529 to establish a human trafficking victims fund; create a new section of KRS Chapter 529 to require asset forfeiture for human trafficking offenders and to provide for distribution of the proceeds; create a new section of KRS Chapter 529 to prohibit the prosecution of a minor under prostitution statutes; amend KRS 529.020 and 529.080 to conform; amend KRS 15.334, relating to police training, to require training relating to human trafficking; amend KRS 15.706 to require the Prosecutors Advisory Council to collect data on human trafficking; amend KRS 15.718 to require human trafficking training for prosecutors; create a new section of KRS Chapter 16 to require the Department of Kentucky State Police to designate a human trafficking unit; amend KRS 421.500, relating to victims services, to include victims of human trafficking; amend KRS 421.570, relating to victim advocates, to include training on human trafficking; amend KRS 413.249, relating to civil actions relating to childhood sexual abuse or childhood sexual assault, to include child victims of human trafficking; amend KRS 421.350, relating to testimony of certain child victims, to include child victims of human trafficking offenses; amend KRS 431.082 to provide a cause of action for victims of human trafficking; amend KRS 431.600, relating to coordination of child sexual abuse investigations and prosecutions, to include advocates for human trafficking victims; create a new section of KRS Chapter 336 to require the Labor Cabinet to report incidents of human trafficking and provide for reasonable cause immunity; amend KRS 337.385 to allow a court to award punitive damages and other costs and fees to victims of human trafficking; amend KRS 516.030, relating to forgery in the second degree, to include coercing another person to make or obtain a false instrument in the commission of human trafficking; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to file a report on its plan to implement provisions relating to child human trafficking victims; provide that the Act may be cited as the "Human Trafficking Victims Rights Act.
Title
AN ACT relating to human trafficking and making an appropriation therefor.
Sponsors
History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2013-03-19 | House | signed by Governor (Acts Chapter 25) |
| 2013-03-12 | House | delivered to Governor |
| 2013-03-12 | House | enrolled, signed by each presiding officer |
| 2013-03-12 | House | passed 97-0 |
| 2013-03-12 | House | House concurred in Senate Committee Substitute |
| 2013-03-12 | House | posted for passage for concurrence in Senate Committee Substitute |
| 2013-03-12 | House | taken from Rules |
| 2013-03-12 | House | to Rules (H) |
| 2013-03-12 | House | received in House |
| 2013-03-07 | Senate | 3rd reading, passed 37-0 with Committee Substitute |
| 2013-03-07 | Senate | posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, March 7, 2013 |
| 2013-03-07 | Senate | reported favorably, to Rules with Committee Substitute |
| 2013-03-06 | Senate | reassigned to Judiciary (S) |
| 2013-03-06 | Senate | returned to Appropriations & Revenue (S) |
| 2013-03-06 | Senate | 2nd reading |
| 2013-03-06 | Senate | taken from Appropriations & Revenue (S) |
| 2013-03-05 | Senate | returned to Appropriations & Revenue (S) |
| 2013-03-05 | Senate | 1st reading |
| 2013-03-05 | Senate | taken from Appropriations & Revenue (S) |
| 2013-02-21 | Senate | to Appropriations & Revenue (S) |
| 2013-02-19 | Senate | received in Senate |
| 2013-02-15 | House | 3rd reading, passed 95-0 with Committee Substitute |
| 2013-02-14 | House | posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, February 15, 2013 |
| 2013-02-14 | House | 2nd reading, to Rules |
| 2013-02-13 | House | reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute |
| 2013-02-11 | House | posted in committee |
| 2013-02-11 | House | to Judiciary (H) |
| 2013-02-07 | House | introduced in House |
