BILL NUMBER: SB 557	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Yee

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2009

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


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 557, as introduced, 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 the court to forfeit any personal
property of a person convicted of human trafficking that was used by
the person in the course of committing the crime, 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, the court
may order any personal property of the defendant used in the course
of committing the violation forfeited, pursuant to the procedures in
Section 502.01. If real property is used, the procedures declaring
the property to be a nuisance in Article 2 (commencing with Section
11225) of Chapter 3 of Title 1 of Part 4 shall apply.