HB 152 – Adds advertising a child as available to participate in certain sex acts to the crime of sexual trafficking of a child

• Sponsor: Onder
• LR Number: 0176H.03S
• Committee: Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence
• Last Action: 5/15/2015 - In Conference--HB 152-Haahr, with SCS, as amended (Onder) (House adopted CCR and passed CCS)
• Title: SCS HB 152
• Effective Date: August 28, 2015
• House Handler: Haahr

Current Bill Summary

CCS/SCS/HB 152 - Under current law, a person commits sexual trafficking of a child by knowingly recruiting, enticing, harboring, transporting, providing, or obtaining a child to participate in a commercial sex act, a sexual performance, or the production of sexually explicit material. This act adds, as an element of sexual trafficking of a child, advertising the availability of a child to participate in a commercial sex act, a sexual performance, or the production of explicit sexual material.

These provisions are identical to provisions of SCS/HCS/HB 734 (2015) and SCS/HCS/HB 807 (2015).

MEGHAN LUECKE