California Senate Bill SB557 Amended / Bill

 BILL NUMBER: SB 557AMENDED BILL TEXT AMENDED IN SENATE MAY 5, 2009 AMENDED IN SENATE APRIL 22, 2009 AMENDED IN SENATE APRIL 2, 2009 INTRODUCED BY Senator Yee FEBRUARY 27, 2009 An act to add Section 236.3 to the Penal Code, relating to human trafficking. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST SB 557, as amended, Yee. Human trafficking: property: seizure. Existing law defines human trafficking as the deprivation or violation of the personal liberty of another person with the intent to commit certain specified sex offenses with the person or to obtain forced labor or services, as specified. This bill would  authorize the court to forfeit any personal property of a person convicted of human trafficking that was used by the person in the course of committing the crime, as specified. This bill would also  authorize real property used to facilitate the  violation   commission of that offense  to be declared and treated as a nuisance, as specified. Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 236.3 is added to the Penal Code, to read: 236.3. Upon conviction of a violation of Section 236.1,  the court may order any personal property of the defendant used to facilitate the violation forfeited, pursuant to the procedures in subdivisions (b), (c), (d), (f), (g), and (h) of Section 502.01. If real property is used, the procedures for declaring the property to be a nuisance in Article   when real property is used to facilitate the commission of the offense, the procedures for determining whether the property constitutes a nuisance and the remedies imposed therefor as provided in Article  2 (commencing with Section 11225) of Chapter 3 of Title 1 of Part 4 shall apply.