HF 130

Introduction - 94th Legislature (2025 - 2026)

Posted on 04/10/2025 04:16 p.m.

A bill for an act
relating to public safety; establishing mandatory minimum sentences for certain
sex trafficking offenses; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 609.322,
subdivision 1.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

Section 1.

Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 609.322, subdivision 1, is amended to read:

Subdivision 1.

Solicitation, inducement, and promotion of prostitution; sex trafficking
in the first degree.

(a) Whoever, while acting other than as a prostitute or patron,
intentionally does any of the following may be sentenced to imprisonment for not more
than 25 years or to payment of a fine of not more than $50,000, or both:

(1) solicits or induces an individual under the age of 18 years to practice prostitution;

(2) promotes the prostitution of an individual under the age of 18 years;

(3) receives profit, knowing or having reason to know that it is derived from the
prostitution, or the promotion of the prostitution, of an individual under the age of 18 years;
or

(4) engages in the sex trafficking of an individual under the age of 18 years.

(b) Whoever violates paragraph (a) or subdivision 1a may be sentenced to imprisonment
for not more than 30 years or to payment of a fine of not more than $60,000, or both, if one
or more of the following aggravating factors are present:

(1) the offender has committed a prior qualified human trafficking-related offense;

(2) the offense involved a sex trafficking victim who suffered bodily harm during the
commission of the offense;

(3) the time period that a sex trafficking victim was held in debt bondage or forced or
coerced labor or services exceeded 180 days; or

(4) the offense involved more than one sex trafficking victim.

new text begin (c) Unless a longer mandatory minimum sentence is otherwise required by law or the
Sentencing Guidelines provide for a longer presumptive executed sentence, the court shall
presume that an executed sentence of 120 months must be imposed on an offender convicted
of violating this section under the conditions described in paragraph (a), and an executed
sentence of 144 months must be imposed on an offender convicted of violating this section
under the conditions described in paragraph (b). Sentencing a person in a manner other than
that described in this paragraph is a departure from the Sentencing Guidelines.
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new text begin EFFECTIVE DATE. new text end

new text begin This section is effective August 1, 2025, and applies to crimes
committed on or after that date.
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