S.B. 30: Human Trafficking, Exploitation, and Smuggling Amendments

About this bill

Signed by the governor on March 23, 2026. This bill concerns human labor trafficking, human trafficking for sexual exploitation, and human smuggling.

• Defines terms
• Removes the applicability of statutory defenses to offenses concerning human trafficking or human smuggling
• Repeals a freestanding definition section and incorporates the repealed section's definitions into the human smuggling offenses in which the terms are referenced
• Amends the following offenses concerning human trafficking, including revising the name and elements of the offense, and, for some offenses, requiring specific conduct for a violation: human trafficking for labor; human trafficking for sexual exploitation; human trafficking of a child (for labor and for sexual exploitation); and human trafficking of a vulnerable adult (for labor and for sexual exploitation)
• Divides the offense of aggravated human trafficking for labor or sexual exploitation into two separate offenses
• Revises the offense of benefiting from human trafficking or human smuggling: to no longer be a separate criminal offense by removing penalty provisions; and to add human trafficking offenses concerning vulnerable adults to the list of offenses included in the statute

Full bill page: steps, fiscal note and sponsors · Chief sponsor Calvin R. Musselman