Action Alert for SB21!

 

Time is running out for Alaskan sex workers and sex trafficking victims.

Alaska Senate Bill 21 needs a hearing and an affirmative vote NOW!   Please call or email Alaska Senator Judiciary Chairwomen, Lesil McGuire today and ask her to schedule Senate Bill 21 for a Senate Judiciary hearing and hold a vote! SB 21 would allow anyone in Alaska’s sex trade, whether by choice, circumstance, or coercion, to make police reports about violent crimes without the fear of being charged with prostitution!  Please don’t leave Alaskan sex trade workers and sex trafficking victims behind!

Senator.Lesil.McGuire@akleg.gov    (907)-465-2995

 

Sample message:                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

Please Schedule Senate Bill 21 for a Senate Judiciary hearing and hold a vote ASAP! SB 21 would allow anyone in Alaska’s sex trade, whether by choice, circumstance, or coercion, to make police reports about violent crimes without the fear of being charged with prostitution!  Please don’t leave Alaskan sex trade workers and sex trafficking victims behind!

 

Text of Bill

 

00                  SPONSOR SUBSTITUTE FOR SENATE BILL NO. 21                                                          

01 “An Act relating to immunity from prosecution for the crime of prostitution.”                

02 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                     

03    * Section 1. AS 11.66.100 is amended by adding a new subsection to read:                         

04            (e)  A person may not be prosecuted under (a)(1) of this section if the                           

05                 (1)  person witnessed or was a victim of, and reported to law                           

06       enforcement in good faith, one or more of the following crimes:                       

07                      (A)  murder in the first degree under AS 11.41.100;                    

08                      (B)  murder in the second degree under AS 11.41.110;                    

09                      (C)  manslaughter under AS 11.41.120;                                    

10                      (D)  criminally negligent homicide under AS 11.41.130;                    

11                      (E)  assault in the first degree under AS 11.41.200;                               

12                      (F)  assault in the second degree under AS 11.41.210;                    

13                      (G)  assault in the third degree under AS 11.41.220;                                         

14                      (H)  assault in the fourth degree under AS 11.41.230;                    

15                      (I)  sexual assault in the first degree under AS 11.41.410;

01                      (J)  sexual assault in the second degree under AS 11.41.420;                    

02                      (K)  sexual assault in the third degree under AS 11.41.425;                    

03                      (L)  sexual assault in the fourth degree under AS 11.41.427;                    

04                      (M)  sex trafficking in the first degree under AS 11.66.110;                    

05                      (N)  sex trafficking in the second degree under AS 11.66.120;                    

06                      (O)  sex trafficking in the third degree under AS 11.66.130; or                            

07                      (P)  sex trafficking in the fourth degree under AS 11.66.135;                    

08                 (2)  evidence supporting the prosecution under (a)(1) of this section                       

09       was obtained or discovered as a result of the person reporting the crime to law                           

10       enforcement; and                                                                                       

11                 (3)  person cooperated with law enforcement personnel.                    

 

http://www.legis.state.ak.us/basis/get_bill_text.asp?hsid=SB0021B&session=29