Alaska HB 97: An Act relating to the veterans' land purchase discount; establishing state land vouchers; relating to the permanent fund dividend; relating to the duties of the Department of Revenue; authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to accept state land vouchers; relating to eligibility for public assistance; and providing for an effective date.

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CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 97(JUD)

IN THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA

THIRTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE - FIRST SESSION

BY THE HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE

Offered: 5/2/25
Referred: Finance

Sponsor(s): REPRESENTATIVE FIELDS
A BILL

FOR AN ACT ENTITLED

"An Act relating to human trafficking; relating to theft; relating to organized theft; 1
relating to theft of medical records and medical information; relating to mail theft; 2
establishing the crime of wage theft; relating to aggravating factors at sentencing; 3
relating to claims for unpaid wages; and providing for an effective date." 4
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA: 5
* Section 1. AS 11.41.360(a) is amended to read: 6
(a) A person commits the crime of human trafficking in the first degree if the 7
person 8
(1) [COMPELS OR] induces or causes another person to engage in 9
[SEXUAL CONDUCT,] adult entertainment [,] or labor [IN THE STATE] by force or 10
threat of force against any person; or 11
(2) violates AS 11.41.365 and the victim is under 21 years of age [, 12
OR BY DECEPTION]. 13
* Sec. 2. AS 11.41.360(c) is amended to read: 14

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(c) Human trafficking in the first degree is an unclassified [A CLASS A] 1
felony. 2
* Sec. 3. AS 11.41.365(b) is amended to read: 3
(b) Human trafficking in the second degree is a class A [B] felony. 4
* Sec. 4. AS 11.41 is amended by adding new sections to read: 5
Sec. 11.41.366. Human trafficking in the third degree. (a) A person 6
commits the crime of human trafficking in the third degree if the person provides 7
services, resources, or other assistance with the intent to promote a violation of 8
AS 11.41.360 or 11.41.365. 9
(b) Human trafficking in the third degree is a 10
(1) class B felony if the value of the services, resources, or other 11
assistance provided is $200 or more; 12
(2) class C felony if the value of the services, resources, or other 13
assistance provided is less than $200. 14
Sec. 11.41.367. Applicability of AS 11.41.360 - 11.41.366. AS 11.41.360 - 15
11.41.366 do not apply to acts that may reasonably be construed to be a normal 16
caretaker request of a child or a normal interaction with a child. 17
Sec. 11.41.369. Forfeiture. (a) Property used to institute, aid, or facilitate, or 18
received or derived from, a violation of AS 11.41.360 - 11.41.366, including real 19
property, may be forfeited at sentencing. 20
(b) The legislature may appropriate funds received from the sale of property 21
forfeited under (a) of this section for an offense under AS 11.41.360 - 11.41.366 to 22
programs that provide resources to victims of human trafficking. 23
* Sec. 5. AS 11.41.530(a) is amended to read: 24
(a) A person commits the crime of coercion if, under circumstances not 25
proscribed under AS 11.41.360 - 11.41.366 or 11.41.410 - 11.41.427 [AS 11.41.410 - 26
11.41.427], the person compels another to engage in conduct from which there is a 27
legal right to abstain or abstain from conduct in which there is a legal right to engage, 28
by means of instilling in the person who is compelled a fear that, if the demand is not 29
complied with, the person who makes the demand or another may 30
(1) inflict physical injury on anyone, except under circumstances 31

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constituting robbery in any degree, or commit any other crime; 1
(2) accuse anyone of a crime; 2
(3) expose confidential information or a secret, whether true or false, 3
tending to subject a person to hatred, contempt, or ridicule or to impair the person's 4
credit or business repute; 5
(4) take or withhold action as a public servant or cause a public servant 6
to take or withhold action; 7
(5) bring about or continue a strike, boycott, or other collective 8
unofficial action, if the property is not demanded or received for the benefit of the 9
group in whose interest the person making the threat or suggestion purports to act; 10
(6) testify or provide information or withhold testimony or information 11
with respect to a person's legal claim or defense. 12
* Sec. 6. AS 11.46.100 is amended to read: 13
Sec. 11.46.100. Theft defined. A person commits theft if, under 14
circumstances not amounting to wage theft as defined in AS 11.46.201, 15
(1) with intent to deprive another of property or to appropriate property 16
of another to oneself or a third person, the person obtains the property of another; 17
(2) the person commits theft of lost or mislaid property under 18
AS 11.46.160; 19
(3) the person commits theft by deception under AS 11.46.180; 20
(4) the person commits theft by receiving under AS 11.46.190; 21
(5) the person commits theft of services under AS 11.46.200; or 22
(6) the person commits theft by failure to make required disposition of 23
funds received or held under AS 11.46.210. 24
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