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2025R: HB1609 ACT 366

TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING HUMAN TRAFFICKING; TO CREATE AN ENHANCED PENALTY FOR RECRUITING TRAFFICKED PERSONS FROM CERTAIN PLACES; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

Latest action: Notification that HB1609 is now Act 366

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Sponsor	Role
Lundstrum	lead
B. Davis	primary
A. Brown	cosponsor
Barker	cosponsor
Bentley	cosponsor
Cavenaugh	cosponsor
Crawford	cosponsor
Dalby	cosponsor
Duke	cosponsor
Henley	cosponsor
Irvin	cosponsor
J. English	cosponsor
J. Mayberry	cosponsor
K. Brown	cosponsor
K. Moore	cosponsor
McAlindon	cosponsor
R. Burkes	cosponsor
Vaught	cosponsor

When	Chamber	Action
Feb 26, 2025, 3:48 p.m. CT	House	Filed
Feb 26, 2025, 5:35 p.m. CT	House	Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on JUDICIARY COMMITTEE- HOUSE
Mar 4, 2025, 12:30 p.m. CT	House	Returned by the Committee Do Pass
Mar 5, 2025, 2:54 p.m. CT	House	Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. ·
Mar 5, 2025, 2:54 p.m. CT	House	EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
Mar 5, 2025, 5:26 p.m. CT	Senate	Received from the House.
Mar 5, 2025, 5:26 p.m. CT	Senate	Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE
Mar 10, 2025, 8:02 a.m. CT	Senate	Withdrawn from Committee and placed on 2nd reading for purpose of amendment # 1
Mar 10, 2025, 8:02 a.m. CT	Senate	Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
Mar 10, 2025, 1:37 p.m. CT	Senate	REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
Mar 10, 2025, 1:37 p.m. CT	Senate	Re-referred to JUDICIARY COMMITTEE - SENATE
Mar 10, 2025, 7:02 p.m. CT	Senate	Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass
Mar 11, 2025, 3:58 p.m. CT	Senate	Read the third time and passed. ·
Mar 11, 2025, 3:58 p.m. CT	Senate	EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
Mar 11, 2025, 3:58 p.m. CT	Senate	Returned to the House as passed as amended # 1 .
Mar 11, 2025, 4:37 p.m. CT	House	Returned from Senate as passed, as amended # 1
Mar 11, 2025, 4:38 p.m. CT	House	Re-referred to the Committee on JUDICIARY COMMITTEE- HOUSE
Mar 13, 2025, 1:14 p.m. CT	House	Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass, concur in Senate Amendment No. 1
Mar 17, 2025, 1:43 p.m. CT	House	Senate amendment #1 read and concurred in, and the Emergency Clause ·
Mar 17, 2025, 1:43 p.m. CT	House	TO BE ENROLLED
Mar 18, 2025, 11:18 a.m. CT	House	Correctly enrolled and ordered transmitted to the Governor's Office.
Mar 20, 2025, 10:47 a.m. CT	House	Notification that HB1609 is now Act 366

Meetings

When	Meeting	Video
Mar 4, 2025, 10:00 a.m. CT	House Judiciary Committee · Committee Room 149	Add to Google Calendar Add to Apple Calendar
Mar 5, 2025, 1:30 p.m. CT	House Meeting · House	Add to Google Calendar Add to Apple Calendar
Mar 10, 2025, 3:30 p.m. CT	Senate Judiciary · Senate Room 171	Add to Google Calendar Add to Apple Calendar
Mar 11, 2025, 1:30 p.m. CT	Senate Floor Session · Senate Chamber	Add to Google Calendar Add to Apple Calendar
Mar 13, 2025, 10:00 a.m. CT	House Judiciary Committee · Committee Room 149	Add to Google Calendar Add to Apple Calendar
Mar 17, 2025, 1:30 p.m. CT	House Meeting · House	Add to Google Calendar Add to Apple Calendar

Filed amendments on record: S1 (Senate) by B. Davis, filed Mar 6, 2025, 10:51 a.m. CT.

Number	Chamber	Sponsor	Introduced
S1	Senate	B. Davis	Mar 6, 2025, 10:51 a.m. CT

Fiscal impact

Other1 · Mar 3, 2025

Committee actions

Do Pass · House · Mar 13, 2025, 1:14 p.m. CT
Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass, concur in Senate Amendment No. 1
Do Pass · Senate · Mar 10, 2025, 7:02 p.m. CT
Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass
Do Pass · House · Mar 4, 2025, 12:30 p.m. CT
Returned by the Committee Do Pass

Floor roll calls

House · RCS 576

Monday, March 17, 2025 1:43:27 PM · arkleg

90Yea

0Nay

10Not voting

0Present

0Excused

Yea (90)

Not voting (10)

Senate · RCS 491

Tuesday, March 11, 2025 3:58:33 PM · arkleg

35Yea

0Nay

0Not voting

0Present

0Excused

Yea (35)

House · RCS 428

Wednesday, March 5, 2025 2:54:26 PM · arkleg

97Yea

0Nay

3Not voting

0Present

0Excused

Yea (97)

Not voting (3)

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TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING HUMAN TRAFFICKING; TO CREATE AN ENHANCED PENALTY FOR RECRUITING TRAFFICKED PERSONS FROM CERTAIN PLACES; AND TO DECLARE AN EMERGENCY.

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Floor roll calls

House · RCS 576

Yea (90)

Not voting (10)

Senate · RCS 491

Yea (35)

House · RCS 428

Yea (97)

Not voting (3)

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