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Bills · 2013-2014 Regular Session

AB 495

Died at session end Official bill text Atom feed

Relating to: the definition of human trafficking.

Crime and criminals

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Assembly, not reached
  3. Passes Senate, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Under current law, no one may engage in human trafficking. Trafficking is

defined in current law as recruiting, enticing, harboring, transporting, providing, or

obtaining an individual without the individual's consent. A person commits an

illegal act of human trafficking if he or she traffics an individual under

circumstances involving physical or financial harm, threats, or other types of

coercion against the individual so that the individual will provide services, labor, or

commercial sexual acts.

This bill removes from the definition of "trafficking" the requirement that the

individual be recruited, enticed, harbored, transported, provided, or obtained

without his or her consent.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Barnes (D) , Bernard Schaber (D) , Bewley (D) , Billings (D) , C. Taylor (D) , Doyle (D) , Goyke (D) , Hulsey (D) , Jacque (R) , Johnson (D) , Kessler (D) , Kolste (D) , Ohnstad (D) , Pasch (D) , Richards (D) , Ringhand (D) , Sargent (D) , Schraa (R) , Sinicki (D) , T. Larson (R) , Wachs (D) , Weininger (R) , Zamarripa (D)

6 cosponsors

Carpenter (D) , Harris (D) , Kleefisch (R) , Lassa (D) , Risser (D) , Shilling (D)

Votes

Assembly: Report passage recommended by Committee on Criminal Justice, Ayes 6, Noes 0

Passed 6–0 Dec 20, 2013 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Full history

  1. Nov 6, 2013 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Johnson, Goyke, Kessler, Barnes, Sargent, Richards, Jacque, Pasch, Doyle, Bewley, Bernard Schaber, Wachs, Kolste, Schraa, C. Taylor, Weininger, Sinicki, Hulsey, T. Larson, Ringhand, Zamarripa, Billings and Ohnstad; cosponsored by Senators Harris, Carpenter, Risser, Shilling and Lassa

  2. Nov 6, 2013 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice

  3. Nov 7, 2013 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  4. Nov 20, 2013 · Assembly

    Representative Kleefisch added as a coauthor

  5. Dec 12, 2013 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  6. Dec 20, 2013 · Assembly

    Report passage recommended by Committee on Criminal Justice, Ayes 6, Noes 0

  7. Dec 20, 2013 · Assembly

    Referred to Committee on Rules

  8. Apr 8, 2014 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1