Virginia House Bill 716 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: Introduced on January 7 2014 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2014-02-07 - Continued to 2015 in Courts of Justice by voice vote
Pending: House Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Trafficking in persons; penalties. Creates new felonies for trafficking in persons for forced labor or sexual servitude and adds the new felonies as a predicate criminal act under the criminal gang statute, as racketeering crimes, and to the functions of a multijurisdiction grand jury, and also allows seizure and forfeiture of property used in committing such felonies. The new felonies and the existing felony of receiving money for procuring a person are added to the rape shield statute. The bill also makes sexual servitude an affirmative defense to the crime of prostitution and allows a petition for a child in need of services to be substituted for a delinquency petition for certain minors arrested for prostitution, disallows the release of certain victim information, specifies law-enforcement protocol for victims who may not be legally present, requires persons convicted of the new felonies to pay restitution that compensates for the victim's labor, and creates a civil action for trafficked persons. The Secretary of Public Safety is required to convene an anti-trafficking committee and the Virginia Prevention of Human Trafficking Victim Fund is created, which will be administered by the Department of Criminal Justice Services.

Trafficking in persons; penalties.

Sen. Jennifer McClellan [D]

Del. Vivian Watts [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-02-07	House	Continued to 2015 in Courts of Justice by voice vote
2014-02-05	House	Subcommittee recommends continuing to 2015 by voice vote
2014-01-30	House	Assigned Courts sub: Criminal Law
2014-01-07	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2014-01-07	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/14 14102656D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
17	1	805	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	346	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	46.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	50.3	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	513	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	67.7	(n/a)	See Bill Text
19	2	11.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text
19	2	11.5	(n/a)	See Bill Text
19	2	215.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
19	2	305.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
19	2	386.32	(n/a)	See Bill Text
2	2	224.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text
8	01	42.4	(n/a)	See Bill Text
9	1	116.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+sum+HB716
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+ful+HB716+hil