BILL NUMBER: SB 677	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 10, 2010
	AMENDED IN SENATE  DECEMBER 17, 2009
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 19, 2009
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 14, 2009

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Yee
    (   Coauthors:   Senators  
Alquist,   Cox,   and DeSaulnier  ) 
    (   Coauthors:   Assembly Members 
 Blumenfield,   DeVore,   Hill,  
Lieu,   Miller,   Portantino,   Silva,
  Smyth,   Solorio,   Audra Strickland,
  and Tran   ) 

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2009

   An act to add Section 236.3 to the Penal Code, relating to human
trafficking.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 677, as amended, Yee. Human trafficking: property: seizure.
   Existing law defines human trafficking as the deprivation or
violation of the personal liberty of another person with the intent
to commit certain specified sex offenses with the person or to obtain
forced labor or services, as specified.
   This bill would authorize real property used to facilitate the
commission of that offense to be declared and treated as a nuisance,
as specified  . 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 236.3 is added to the Penal Code, to read:
   236.3.  Upon conviction of a violation of Section 236.1, 
when   if  real property is used to facilitate the
commission of the offense, the procedures for determining whether the
property constitutes a nuisance and the remedies imposed therefor as
provided in Article 2 (commencing with Section 11225) of Chapter 3
of Title 1 of Part 4 shall apply.