HB80 Alabama 2025 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Chip Brown Representative

Republican

Session

2025 Regular Session

Title

Crimes; human trafficking, further provided; amounts awarded as civil damages, further provided

Description

Under existing law, human trafficking in the first degree is a crime committed when a person: (i) subjects an individual to labor servitude or sexual servitude, (ii) when a person obtains, recruits, solicits, induces, threatens, restrains, transports, or provides a minor for the purpose of causing the minor to engage in sexual servitude, or (iii) knowingly gives monetary consideration to engage in any sexual conduct with a minor. Human trafficking in the first degree is a Class A felony.

Under existing law, human trafficking in the second degree is a crime committed when a person: (i) knowingly benefits from participation in a venture or engagement for the purpose of sexual servitude or labor servitude, (ii) knowingly recruits, entices, solicits, harbors, transports, restrains, or provides another individual for the purpose of labor servitude or sexual servitude; or (iii) obstructs the enforcement of the human trafficking laws. Human trafficking in the second degree is a Class B felony.

This bill would further provide for the crime of human trafficking in the second degree by specifying that the crime is committed by any person who aids another in the commission of a human trafficking HB80 INTRODUCED offense, hinders the prosecution of a human trafficking offense, or provides material support or resources in the furtherance of human trafficking.

This bill would further provide for restitution awarded to a victim of human trafficking in the first or second degree.

Also under existing law, a victim of human trafficking in the first or second degree may file a civil action against a person who trafficked the victim.

This bill would also further provide for the award of damages in a civil human trafficking action.

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Subjects

Civil Procedure; Crimes & Offenses