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DELAWARE Legislation
Senate Bill 75- Human Trafficking
Date Enacted/Effected:
8/1/17
Synopsis/ Summary:
This Act updates Delaware's human trafficking crime to prohibit the same acts that are included in the federal Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act of 2015.
Bill Text:
AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO TRAFFICKING OF AN INDIVIDUAL, FORCED LABOR, AND SEXUAL SERVITUDE. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE: Section 1. Amend § 787, Title 11 of the Delaware Code by making deletions as shown by strikethrough and insertions as shown by underline as follows: § 787. Trafficking an individual, forced labor and sexual servitude; class D felony; class C felony; class B felony; class A felony.
(b) Prohibited activities. —
(1) Trafficking an individual. — A person is guilty of trafficking an individual if the person knowingly recruits, transports, harbors, receives, provides, obtains, isolates, maintains, advertises, patronizes, solicits, or entices an individual in furtherance of forced labor in violation of paragraph (b)(2) of this section or sexual servitude in violation of paragraph (b)(3) of this section. Trafficking an individual is a class C felony unless the individual is a minor, in which case it is a class B felony.