Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Bill HB94 Compare Versions

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3	3	HB94
4	4	873K22F-1
5	5	By Representative Givan
6	6	RFD: Judiciary
7	7	First Read: 04-Feb-25
8	8	PFD: 24-Jan-25
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17	17	SYNOPSIS:
18	18	Under existing law, human trafficking in the
19	19	second degree is a Class B felony.
20	20	This bill would provide that knowingly
21	21	advertising, either online or in print, access to the
22	22	sexual or labor servitude of another is human
23	23	trafficking in the second degree.
24	24	This bill would also make nonsubstantive,
25	25	technical revisions to update the existing code
26	26	language to current style.
27	27	A BILL
28	28	TO BE ENTITLED
29	29	AN ACT
30	30	Relating to crimes and offenses; to amend Section
31	31	13A-6-153, Code of Alabama 1975; to further provide for the
32	32	crime of human trafficking in the second degree; and to make
33	33	nonsubstantive, technical revisions to update the existing
34	34	code language to current style.
35	35	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:
36	36	Section 1. Section 13A-6-153, Code of Alabama 1975, is
37	37	amended to read as follows:
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67	67	amended to read as follows:
68	68	"§13A-6-153
69	69	(a) A person commits the crime of human trafficking in
70	70	the second degree if:
71	71	(1) A person He or she knowingly benefits, financially
72	72	or by receiving anything of value, from participation in a
73	73	venture or engagement for the purpose of sexual servitude or
74	74	labor servitude.
75	75	(2) A person He or she knowingly recruits, entices,
76	76	solicits, induces, harbors, transports, holds, restrains,
77	77	provides, maintains, subjects, or obtains by any means another
78	78	person for the purpose of labor servitude or sexual servitude.
79	79	(3) He or she knowingly advertises, either online or in
80	80	print, access to the sexual or labor servitude of another.
81	81	(3)(b) A corporation, or any other legal entity other
82	82	than an individual, may be prosecuted for human trafficking in
83	83	the second degree for an act or omission only if an agent of
84	84	the corporation or entity performs the conduct which is an
85	85	element of the crime while acting within the scope of his or
86	86	her office or employment and on behalf of the corporation or
87	87	entity, and the commission of the crime was either authorized,
88	88	requested, commanded, performed, or within the scope of the
89	89	person's employment on behalf of the corporation or entity or
90	90	constituted a pattern of conduct that an agent of the
91	91	corporation or entity knew or should have known was occurring.
92	92	(4)(c) Any person who obstructs, or attempts to
93	93	obstruct, or in any way interferes with or prevents the
94	94	enforcement of this section shall be guilty of a Class B
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125	125	felony.
126	126	(b)(d) Human trafficking in the second degree is a
127	127	Class B felony."
128	128	Section 2. This act shall become effective on October
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