Plain English Breakdown
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AB-603: Asset Forfeiture for Human Trafficking
This law changes how California takes property from people who profit from human trafficking and directs the money to victim support funds.
What This Bill Does
- Renames the current act to include 'Human Trafficking' in its official title as the 'California Control of Profits of Organized Crime and Human Trafficking Act'.
- Allows courts to take property gained through human trafficking without proving a pattern of at least two criminal incidents.
- Sends money from seized assets related to human trafficking to the Victim-Witness Assistance Fund and the Board of State and Community Corrections.
- States that these changes do not alter existing rules for seizing vehicles or buildings used in cases involving commercial sex acts with victims under 18 years old.
Who It Names or Affects
- People convicted of human trafficking who have property linked to their crimes.
- Courts that handle asset forfeiture orders.
- The Victim-Witness Assistance Fund and the Board of State and Community Corrections, which receive the seized funds.
Terms To Know
- Asset Forfeiture
- A legal process where the government takes property or money connected to criminal activity.
- Pattern of Criminal Profiteering Activity
- Under old rules, this meant committing at least two separate crimes that made a profit; new rules remove this requirement for human trafficking cases under this act.
Limits and Unknowns
- The bill does not change the specific laws about seizing property used to facilitate sex trafficking involving victims under 18.
- The official text provided does not list an effective date or when these changes will begin.