SB 1210 - This act creates the crime of abuse through forced labor by knowingly providing or obtaining the labor or services of a person through threats of harm or restraint, by means of causing a person to believe that if the labor is not performed that person or another with suffer harm, or by means of abuse or the threat of abuse of the law or legal process. The crime of abuse through forced labor is a Class B felony (Section 556.203).

This act creates the crime of trafficking for the purposes of slavery, involuntary servitude, or forced labor if a person knowingly recruits, harbors, transports, provides, or obtains by any means, another person for labor or services. The crime of trafficking pursuant to this section is a Class B felony (Section 556.206).

This act creates the crime of sexual trafficking of a child if the individual knowingly recruits, transports, harbors, provides, or obtains a child to participate in a commercial sex act. It is a crime to benefit financially from participation in such activities or to cause a person under the age of eighteen to engage in a commercial sex act through the use of fraud, coercion, or force. The crime of sexual trafficking of a child is a Class A felony if the child is under the age of fourteen; otherwise, it is a Class B felony (Section 556.209).

This act creates the crime of contributing to human trafficking through the misuse of documentation. It is a crime to misuse another person's identification to commit the above trafficking offenses or to restrict a person's ability to move or travel. The crime of contributing to human trafficking through the misuse of documentation is a Class D felony (Section 556.212).

This act requires the sentencing court to order the offender to pay restitution to the victim of the offenses established in Sections 556.203, 556.206, 556.209 (Section 556.215).

This act requires international matchmaking organizations to provide notice to each recruit from another country that certain information regarding clients is available. Such an organization must disseminate the criminal history record information and marital history information of a client along with basic rights information within 30 days after it receives the information. A client of an organization must obtain his or her own criminal history and give it to the organization along with the marital history information. The organization must require the client to affirm that the information is accurate and complete. It is a Class D felony to wilfully provide incomplete or false information or to violate the requirements of notice and providing information as required by this section (Section 556.218).

Portions of this act were truly agreed to in CCS/SS/HCS/ HB 1055.
SUSAN HENDERSON