Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
Section 1. Section 13-1307, Arizona Revised
Statutes, is amended to read:
START_STATUTE13-1307. Sex trafficking; classification;
definitions
A. It is unlawful for a person to knowingly recruit, entice, harbor, transport, provide or
obtain by any means
traffic another person who is eighteen years of age or older with
either of the following:
1. The intent
of causing to cause the other person to engage in prostitution by force, fraud or any commercial sex act or sexually-explicit
performance by deception, force or coercion.
2. The
knowledge that the other person will engage in any commercial sex act or
sexually-explicit performance by deception, coercion or force.
B. It is unlawful for a person to recruit, entice, harbor, transport, provide or obtain by any
means traffic
another person who is under eighteen years of age with either of the following:
1. The
intent of causing
to cause the other person
to engage in prostitution any commercial sex act or sexually‑explicit
performance.
2. The
knowledge that the other person will engage in any commerical sex act or
sexually-explicit performance.
C. Notwithstanding any other law, a sentence imposed
on a person for a violation of subsection B of this section shall be
consecutive to any other sentence imposed on the person at any time.
D. A person who violates this section is guilty of a
class 2 felony, except that if the offense is committed against a person who is
under fifteen years of age, the offense is a dangerous crime against children
punishable pursuant to section 13‑705.
E. For the
purposes of this section:
1. "Coercion"
includes:
(a) Abusing or threatening to abuse
the law or the legal system.
(b) Knowingly destroying,
concealing, removing, confiscating, possessing or withholding another person's
actual or purported passport or other immigration document, government issued
identification document, government record or personal property.
(c) Blackmail.
(d) Causing or threatening to cause
financial harm to any person.
(e) Facilitating or controlling
another person's access to a controlled substance.
2. "Force"
includes causing or threatening to cause serious harm to another person or
Physically restraining or threatening to physically restrain another person.
3. "Traffic"
means to transport another person or to entice, recruit, harbor, provide or
otherwise obtain another person for transport by deception, coercion or force.END_STATUTE
Sec. 2. Section
13-1308, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:
START_STATUTE13-1308. Trafficking of persons for forced
labor or services; classification; definitions
A. It is unlawful for a person to either:
1. Knowingly traffic another person with the intent
to or knowledge that the other person will be subject to forced labor or
services.
2. Knowingly benefit, financially or by receiving
anything of value, from participation in a venture that has engaged in an act
in violation of section 13‑1306, section 13‑1307 or this section.
B. A violation of this section is a class 2 felony.
C. For the purposes of this section:
1. "Forced labor or services" means labor
or services that are performed or provided by another person and that are
obtained through a person's either:
(a) Causing or threatening to cause serious physical
injury to any person.
(b) Restraining or threatening to physically
restrain another person.
(c) Withholding
from another person that person's government records, identifying information
or personal property.
(c) Knowingly destroying,
concealing, removing, confiscating, possessing or withholding another person's
actual or purported passport or other immigration document, government issued
identification document, government record or personal property.
(d) Abusing or threatening to abuse
the law or the legal system.
(e) Blackmail.
(f) Causing or threatening to cause
financial harm to any person.
(g) Facilitating or controlling
another person's access to a controlled substance.
2. "Traffic" means to transport another
person or to entice, recruit, harbor, provide or otherwise obtain another
person for transport by deception, coercion or force. END_STATUTE
