Legislation - HB0187

Title: Criminal Law - Benefits Exploitation
Sponsored by: Delegates Kaufman, Conaway, Fair, Feldmark, Jackson, T. Morgan, Pasteur, Pena-Melnyk, Stein, Tomlinson, and Williams
Status: In the House - First Reading Judiciary
Analysis

Synopsis

Prohibiting a person from knowingly recruiting, harboring, transporting, or obtaining an individual for the purpose of appropriating the government benefits of an individual for the benefit of the person or another through deception, coercion, exploitation, isolation, or any other means; prohibiting a person from aiding, abetting, or conspiring with one or more persons to violate a certain provision of the Act; establishing that a violation of the Act is a felony; etc.

Committees

Original:: Judiciary

Details

Cross-filed with: SB0170

Introduced in a prior session as: HB0892 Session: 2024 Regular Session

Bill File Type: Pre-Filed

Effective Date(s): October 1, 2025

History

Legislation History
Chamber House Calendar Date 10/18/2024 Legislative Date 10/18/2024 Action Pre-filed Proceedings
Chamber House Calendar Date 1/08/2025 Legislative Date 1/08/2025 Action First Reading Judiciary Proceedings
Chamber Calendar Date Legislative Date Action Text - First - Criminal Law - Benefits Exploitation Proceedings

Chamber	Calendar Date	Legislative Date	Action
House	10/18/2024	10/18/2024	Pre-filed
House	1/08/2025	1/08/2025	First Reading Judiciary
			Text - First - Criminal Law - Benefits Exploitation

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