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HB94
873K22F-1
By Representative Givan
RFD: Judiciary
First Read: 04-Feb-25
PFD: 24-Jan-25
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PFD: 24-Jan-25
SYNOPSIS:
Under existing law, human trafficking in the
second degree is a Class B felony.
This bill would provide that knowingly
advertising, either online or in print, access to the
sexual or labor servitude of another is human
trafficking in the second degree.
This bill would also make nonsubstantive,
technical revisions to update the existing code
language to current style.
A BILL
TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
Relating to crimes and offenses; to amend Section
13A-6-153, Code of Alabama 1975; to further provide for the
crime of human trafficking in the second degree; and to make
nonsubstantive, technical revisions to update the existing
code language to current style.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:
Section 1. Section 13A-6-153, Code of Alabama 1975, is
amended to read as follows:
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amended to read as follows:
"ยง13A-6-153
(a) A person commits the crime of human trafficking in
the second degree if:
(1) A person He or she knowingly benefits, financially
or by receiving anything of value, from participation in a
venture or engagement for the purpose of sexual servitude or
labor servitude.
(2) A person He or she knowingly recruits, entices,
solicits, induces, harbors, transports, holds, restrains,
provides, maintains, subjects, or obtains by any means another
person for the purpose of labor servitude or sexual servitude.
(3) He or she knowingly advertises, either online or in
print, access to the sexual or labor servitude of another.
(3)(b) A corporation, or any other legal entity other
than an individual, may be prosecuted for human trafficking in
the second degree for an act or omission only if an agent of
the corporation or entity performs the conduct which is an
element of the crime while acting within the scope of his or
her office or employment and on behalf of the corporation or
entity, and the commission of the crime was either authorized,
requested, commanded, performed, or within the scope of the
person's employment on behalf of the corporation or entity or
constituted a pattern of conduct that an agent of the
corporation or entity knew or should have known was occurring.
(4)(c) Any person who obstructs, or attempts to
obstruct, or in any way interferes with or prevents the
enforcement of this section shall be guilty of a Class B
felony.
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felony.
(b)(d) Human trafficking in the second degree is a
Class B felony."
Section 2. This act shall become effective on October
1, 2025.
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