HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

2188

TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE, 2010

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

relating to crime.

 

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 


SECTION 1.  Chapter 707, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to part IV to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:

     "§707-    Human trafficking.  (1)  A person commits the offense of human trafficking if the person:

    (a)   Knowingly subjects or attempts to subject another person to labor or services by:

         (i)  Causing or threatening to cause serious bodily injury to any person;

        (ii)  Restraining or threatening to restrain another person;

       (iii)  Causing or threatening to cause a penal charge to be instituted against another person;

        (iv)  Knowingly destroying, concealing, removing, confiscating, or possessing any actual or purported passport or other immigrant identification document, or any other actual or purported government identification document, of another person;

         (v)  Committing extortion as defined by section 707-764;

        (vi)  Deception, as defined in section 708-800, or fraud, which means falsely representing a present or past fact, whether by words or conduct, or failing to disclose a present or past fact that causes a person to act, or fail to act, in reliance thereon;

       (vii)  Debt bondage;

      (viii)  Causing or threatening to cause financial harm to any person;

        (ix)  Facilitating or controlling a person's access to an addictive controlled substance; or

         (x)  Using any scheme, plan, or pattern intended to cause any person to believe that, if the person did not perform the labor or services, that person or another person would suffer serious harm or physical restraint.

    (b)   Knowingly recruiting, enticing, harboring, transporting, providing, or obtaining by any means another person under eighteen years of age, knowing that the person will engage in:

         (i)  Any form of sexual conduct within the meaning of section 707-700 or 712-1210 on account of which anything of value is given, promised to, or received by any person;

        (ii)  Activity as an erotic or nude massager or exotic or nude dancer as defined by section 712-1210; or

       (iii)  Production of child pornography as defined in section 707-750.

    (c)   Trafficks another person for labor or services by knowingly:

         (i)  Recruiting, enticing, harboring, transporting, providing, or obtaining by any means another person, intending or knowing that the person will be subjected to labor or services under paragraph (a) or (b); or

        (ii)  Benefiting, financially or by receiving anything of value, from participation in a venture that has engaged in an act involving labor or services under paragraph (a) or (b); provided that this subparagraph shall not apply to the person who is trafficked.

     (2)  A conviction and sentence for human trafficking shall be in addition to, and not in lieu of, a conviction and sentence for any underlying offense; provided that the sentence imposed under this section may run concurrent with or consecutive to the sentence for the underlying offense.

     (3)  In this section:

         (a)  "Debt bondage" means the status or condition of a debtor arising from a pledge by the debtor of the debtor's personal services or those of a person under the debtor's control as a security for debt, if the value of those services as reasonably assessed is not applied toward the liquidation of the debt or the length and nature of those services are not respectively limited and defined.

         (b)  "Labor" means work of economic or financial value.

         (c)  "Restraint" means to restrict a person's movement by means of force so as to interfere substantially with the person's liberty.

         (d)  "Services" means an ongoing relationship between a person and the actor in which the person performs activities under the supervision of or for the benefit of the actor.  Prostitution-related and obscenity-related activities as set forth in chapter 712 are forms of "services" under this section. 

     (4)  Nothing in this section shall constitute a defense to prostitution.  It shall not be a defense to a charge under subsection (1)(b) that the actor was mistaken as to the person's age.

     (5)  Human trafficking under subsections (1)(a) or (1)(b) is a class A felony.  Human trafficking under subsection (1)(c) is a class B felony."

     SECTION 2.  Section 712A-4, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

     "§712A-4  Covered offenses.  Offenses for which property is subject to forfeiture under this chapter are:

    (a)   All offenses which specifically authorize forfeiture;

    (b)   Murder, kidnapping, human trafficking, gambling, criminal property damage, robbery, bribery, extortion, theft, unauthorized entry into motor vehicle, burglary, money laundering, trademark counterfeiting, insurance fraud, promoting a dangerous, harmful, or detrimental drug, commercial promotion of marijuana, unlawful methamphetamine trafficking, manufacturing of a controlled substance with a child present, promoting child abuse, or electronic enticement of a child which is chargeable as a felony offense under state law;

    (c)   The manufacture, sale, or distribution of a controlled substance in violation of chapter 329, promoting detrimental drugs or intoxicating compounds, promoting pornography, promoting pornography for minors, or promoting prostitution, which is chargeable as a felony or misdemeanor offense, but not as a petty misdemeanor, under state law; and

    (d)   The attempt, conspiracy, solicitation, coercion, or intimidation of another to commit any offense for which property is subject to forfeiture. "

     SECTION 3.  Section 842-1, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending the definitions of 'organized crime" and "racketeering activity" to read as follows:

      ""Organized crime" means any combination or conspiracy to engage in criminal activity as a significant source of income or livelihood, or to violate, aid or abet the violation of criminal laws relating to prostitution, gambling, loan sharking, drug abuse, illegal drug distribution, counterfeiting, extortion, human trafficking, corruption of law enforcement officers or other public officers or employers.

     "Racketeering activity" means any act or threat involving, but not limited to murder, kidnapping, human trafficking, gambling, criminal property damage, robbery, bribery, extortion, theft or prostitution, or any dealing in narcotic or other dangerous drugs which is chargeable as a crime under state law and punishable by imprisonment for more than one year."

     SECTION 4.  This Act does not affect rights and duties that matured, penalties that were incurred, and proceedings that were begun before its effective date.

     SECTION 5.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 6.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

 

 

INTRODUCED BY:

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Report Title:

Human trafficking; crime

 

Description:

Creates the offense of human trafficking.  Adds human trafficking as a covered offense for forfeitures, and adds human trafficking as an offense involving organized crime and racketeering activity

 

 

 

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