Bill Text: IA SF450 | 2015-2016 | 86th General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to human trafficking and including a penalty provision. (Formerly SF 312.)

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2015-03-25 - Subcommittee, Rizer, Anderson, and Heartsill. H.J. 706. [SF450 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2015-SF450-Amended.html

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Senate File 450 - Reprinted




                                 SENATE FILE       
                                 BY  COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY

                                 (SUCCESSOR TO SF 312)
       (As Amended and Passed by the Senate March 17, 2015)

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to human trafficking and including a penalty
  2    provision.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 80B.11, subsection 1, paragraph c, Code
  1  2 2015, is amended by adding the following new subparagraph:
  1  3    NEW SUBPARAGRAPH.  (4)  In=service training under this
  1  4 paragraph "c" shall include the requirement that all law
  1  5 enforcement officers complete four hours of in=service training
  1  6 every five years related to domestic assault, sexual assault,
  1  7 human trafficking, stalking, and harassment. Such in=service
  1  8 training shall be approved by the academy in consultation
  1  9 with the Iowa coalition against sexual assault and the Iowa
  1 10 coalition against domestic violence.
  1 11    Sec. 2.  NEW SECTION.  692.23  Human trafficking information.
  1 12    The division of criminal and juvenile justice planning
  1 13 of the department of human rights shall collect and maintain
  1 14 criminal history data on incidents related to human trafficking
  1 15 in this state, and shall submit an annual report to the general
  1 16 assembly concerning the collected data. For purposes of this
  1 17 section, "incidents related to human trafficking" means criminal
  1 18 violations of section 710.5, 710.11, or 710A.2, section 725.1,
  1 19 subsection 2, or section 725.2 or 725.3, or violations of
  1 20 section 710.2, 710.3, or 710.4 if the victim was forced to
  1 21 provide labor or services or participate in commercial sexual
  1 22 activity.
  1 23    Sec. 3.  Section 702.11, subsection 1, Code 2015, is amended
  1 24 to read as follows:
  1 25    1.  A "forcible felony" is any felonious child endangerment,
  1 26 assault, murder, sexual abuse, kidnapping, robbery, arson in
  1 27 the first degree, or burglary in the first degree, or human
  1 28 trafficking.
  1 29    Sec. 4.  NEW SECTION.  710A.6  Outreach, public awareness, and
  1 30 training programs.
  1 31    The crime victim assistance division of the department of
  1 32 justice, in cooperation with other governmental agencies and
  1 33 nongovernmental or community organizations, shall develop and
  1 34 conduct outreach, public awareness, and training programs for
  1 35 the general public, law enforcement agencies, first responders,
  2  1 potential victims, and persons conducting or regularly dealing
  2  2 with businesses or other ventures that have a high statistical
  2  3 incidence of debt bondage or forced labor or services. The
  2  4 programs shall train participants to recognize and report
  2  5 incidents of human trafficking and to suppress the demand that
  2  6 fosters exploitation of persons and leads to human trafficking.
  2  7    Sec. 5.  Section 915.94, Code 2015, is amended to read as
  2  8 follows:
  2  9    915.94  Victim compensation fund.
  2 10    A victim compensation fund is established as a separate
  2 11 fund in the state treasury. Moneys deposited in the fund
  2 12 shall be administered by the department and dedicated to and
  2 13 used for the purposes of section 915.41 and this subchapter.
  2 14 In addition, the department may use moneys from the fund
  2 15 for the purpose of the department's prosecutor=based victim
  2 16 service coordination, including the duties defined in sections
  2 17 910.3 and 910.6 and this chapter, and for the award of funds
  2 18 to programs that provide services and support to victims of
  2 19 domestic abuse or sexual assault as provided in chapter 236,
  2 20 to victims under section 710A.2, and for the support of an
  2 21 automated victim notification system established in section
  2 22 915.10A.  The For each fiscal year, the department may also
  2 23 use up to one three hundred thousand dollars from the fund
  2 24 to provide training for victim service providers, to provide
  2 25 training for related professionals concerning victim service
  2 26 programming, and to provide training concerning homicide,
  2 27 domestic assault, sexual assault, stalking, harassment,
  2 28 and human trafficking as required by section 710A.6.
  2 29 Notwithstanding section 8.33, any balance in the fund on June
  2 30 30 of any fiscal year shall not revert to the general fund of
  2 31 the state.
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