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MI HB5234

Bill

Official Source

Status

Passed

10/22/2014

Primary Sponsor

Nancy Jenkins-Arno

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Origin

House of Representatives

97th Legislature

AI Summary

  • Prohibits knowingly recruiting, enticing, harboring, transporting, providing, or obtaining individuals for forced labor, services, or debt bondage
  • Expands prohibited conduct to include recruiting minors for commercial sexual activity or forced labor regardless of whether the offender knows the victim's age
  • Establishes tiered felony penalties ranging from 10 years imprisonment for basic violations up to life imprisonment for violations involving kidnapping, criminal sexual conduct, or death
  • Eliminates requirement for victim testimony and corroboration in prosecutions, and makes victim's resistance or lack thereof irrelevant to prosecution
  • Effective date January 14, 2015

Legislative Description

Crimes; other; human trafficking provisions; modify. Amends secs. 156, 462a, 462b, 462c, 462d, 462e, 462f, 462g & 462h of 1931 PA 328 (MCL 750.156 et seq.) & repeals secs. 462i & 462j of 1931 PA 328 (MCL 750.462i & 750.462j).

Crimes, other

Last Action

Assigned Pa 329'14 With Immediate Effect

10/22/2014

Committee Referrals

Families, Seniors And Human Services3/20/2014
Criminal Justice1/22/2014

Full Bill Text

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