FIRST REGULAR SESSION
HOUSE COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
0718L.02C D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To repeal section 577.675, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to unauthorized aliens, with a penalty provision.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Section 577.675, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 577.675, to read as follows:
577.675. 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly transport, move, or attempt to transport in the state of Missouri any illegal alien who is not lawfully present in the United States, according to the terms of 8 U.S.C. Section 1101, et seq., for the purposes of trafficking in violation of sections 566.200 to 566.215, RSMo, drug trafficking in violation of sections 195.222 and 195.223, RSMo, prostitution in violation of chapter 567, RSMo, or employment.
2. It shall be unlawful for any person to conceal, harbor, or shelter from detection any alien in any place within the state of Missouri including any building or means of transportation, knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that the alien has come to, entered, or remained in the United States in violation of law.
3. Any person violating the provisions of subsection 1 or 2 of this section shall be guilty of a felony for which the authorized term of imprisonment is a term of years not less than one year, or by a fine in an amount not less than one thousand dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
[3.] 4. Nothing in this section shall be construed to deny any victim of an offense under sections 566.200 to 566.215, RSMo, of rights afforded by the federal Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, Public Law 106-386, as amended.
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