Bill Text: MI HB6159 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Criminal procedure; defenses; affirmative defense that individual committed a crime because he or she was a victim of human trafficking; establish. Amends 1927 PA 175 (MCL 760.1 - 777.69) by adding sec. 21d to ch. VIII.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-08-15 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 06/12/2018 [HB6159 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2017-HB6159-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 6159

 

 

June 12, 2018, Introduced by Reps. Cochran, Sabo, Chang, Lasinski, Guerra, Brinks, Geiss, Greig, Green, Pagan, Yancey, Gay-Dagnogo, Wittenberg, Rabhi and Jones and referred to the Committee on Law and Justice.

 

     A bill to amend 1927 PA 175, entitled

 

"The code of criminal procedure,"

 

(MCL 760.1 to 777.69) by adding section 21d to chapter VIII.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

CHAPTER VIII

 

     Sec. 21d. (1) It is an affirmative defense in a prosecution

 

for a felony or misdemeanor violation of a law of this state that

 

the defendant committed the offense as a result of being or having

 

been a victim of human trafficking under chapter LXVIIA of the

 

Michigan penal code, 1931 PA 328, MCL 750.462a to 750.462h.

 

     (2) The defendant bears the burden of proving the defense

 

under subsection (1) by a preponderance of the evidence.

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days

after the date it is enacted into law.