HB4053 S JUDICIARY AMT

Hartley 7889

    The Committee on the Judiciary moved to amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting therefor a new title, to read as follows:

    Eng. Com. Sub. for House Bill No. 4053--A Bill to amend and reenact §30-29-3 the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended; and to amend said code by adding a new section, designated §61-2-17, all relating to human trafficking; authorizing the Governor's Committee on Crime, Delinquency and Correction to establish standards governing training to effectively investigate human trafficking offenses and procedures for implementation of a course in investigation of human trafficking offenses; creating the new criminal offense of human trafficking; specifying the penalties for the new human trafficking offense; and including human trafficking as a qualifying offense in the prohibition against operating a criminal enterprise.

Adopted

Rejected