TO:	Honorable Joe Moody, Chair, House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence
FROM:	Jerry McGinty, Director, Legislative Budget Board
IN RE:	HB1004 by Shaheen (Relating to the prosecution of the offenses of trafficking of persons and compelling prostitution and to certain consequences of those offenses.), Committee Report 1st House, Substituted

The bill would expand the conduct constituting the offense of trafficking of persons to include certain conduct relating to trafficking a person with a disability. The bill would expand the conduct constituting the offense of compelling prostitution to include causing by any means a person with a disability to commit prostitution, regardless of whether the actor knows the person is disabled at the time of the offense. The bill would increase the limitations period for civil claims and indictments to be presented for certain offenses of compelling prostitution and trafficking of persons if the offense is committed against a person with a disability.

Expanding the conduct constituting and extending the limitations period for indictments to be presented for an existing offense may result in additional demands upon state and local correctional resources due to a possible increase in the number of individuals placed under supervision in the community or sentenced to a term of confinement.

In fiscal year 2022, there were 161 individuals arrested, 11 individuals placed on adult community supervision, 1 individual placed on juvenile community supervision, 40 individuals admitted into an adult state correctional institution, and no individuals admitted into juvenile state correctional institutions for trafficking of persons and compelling prostitution offenses. It is unknown if the conduct of these offenses related to the trafficking of certain disabled individuals.