2025 bills / H.B. 405
H.B. 405 Human Trafficking Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- House committee
- House vote
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
This bill makes certain human trafficking offenses carry heavier penalties. It also makes some technical and conforming wording changes to related law.
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Official description
- increases penalties for certain human trafficking offenses
- makes technical and conforming changes
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What members get
- An alert the day H.B. 405 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When H.B. 405 is rewritten, exactly which words changed
- Its hearings in your own calendar
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Every vote
- 7 yes, 1 no, 3 absentHouse Judiciary Committee: vote to change the bill · Feb 18, 2025Who voted how
- 7 yes, 1 no, 3 absentHouse Judiciary Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 18, 2025Who voted how
- 62 yes, 5 no, 8 absentFinal House vote · Feb 25, 2025Who voted how
- 4 yes, 0 no, 5 absentSenate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee: vote to change the bill · Mar 4, 2025Who voted how
- 5 yes, 0 no, 4 absentSenate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee: vote to approve it · Mar 4, 2025Who voted how
- 27 yes, 0 no, 2 absentFinal Senate vote · Mar 5, 2025Who voted how
- 63 yes, 10 no, 2 absentHouse vote to accept the other chamber's changes · Mar 5, 2025Who voted how