{"id":2003607,"date":"2023-08-17T12:27:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T16:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-democrats-fail-to-advance-bill-that-would-make-child-trafficking-a-serious-crime\/"},"modified":"2023-08-17T12:29:44","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T16:29:44","slug":"california-democrats-fail-to-advance-bill-that-would-make-child-trafficking-a-serious-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-democrats-fail-to-advance-bill-that-would-make-child-trafficking-a-serious-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"California Democrats fail to pass bill criminalizing child trafficking."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcalifornia-democrats-fail-to-advance-bill-that-would-make-child-trafficking-a-serious-crime%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2003607&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<h2>California Assembly Blocks\u200c Bill to \u200dCombat Child Sex Trafficking<\/h2>\n<p>Members of California&#8217;s overwhelmingly Democratic\u2063 State Assembly have halted the progress of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/youre-horrible-california-assembly-blocks-bill-making-trafficking-of-minors-a-serious-felony\/\" title=\"California Assembly rejects bill to classify trafficking of minors as a major felony.\">crucial bill aimed<\/a> at\u2064 making child sex trafficking a serious\u200b felony. This\u200b decision has left the bill \u2063in what one Republican lawmaker describes as &#8220;legislative purgatory.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Assembly&#8217;s Appropriations\u200c Committee recently \u200bmoved the bill to\u2064 what is \u2062known as &#8220;the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/6-california-bills-target-housing-crisis\/\" title=\"6 CA Bills Tackle Housing Crisis\">suspense file<\/a>,&#8221; a\u200c parliamentary procedure that allows \u200ccertain bills to\u200c be\u200c quietly discarded without any public debate or discussion, as reported by Sacramento&#8217;s CapRadio.<\/p>\n<p>Former \u2062state senator Melissa Melendez (R.) provided an even more blunt definition, referring to \u2064this\u200b procedure\u200b as &#8220;legislative purgatory.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In order for the bill to progress, it\u2063 must now pass \u2062a closed-door \u2064hearing with influential legislators. \u200bAccording to a former\u2063 lawmaker who spoke to CapRadio, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/whitmer-defends-trip-to-florida-despite-travel-warning-i-wasnt-partying-in-miami\/\" title=\"Whitmer Defends Trip To Florida Despite Travel Warning: \u2018I Wasn\u2019t Partying In Miami!\u2019\">appropriations chair<\/a> and top leaders in each legislative \u2063chamber hold the final say on which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-panel-advances-police-bills-in-party-line-vote-after-contentious-hearing\/\" title=\"Police bills move forward in House panel vote after heated hearing.\">bills move forward<\/a> and which\u2063 ones \u2062are held back.<\/p>\n<p>The bill, introduced by Republican state senator Shannon Grove last \u200dyear, seeks \u2062to classify \u200dthe\u2062 trafficking \u200dof children and teenagers under\u2063 the age of \u200b18 as\u2064 a serious felony on par with crimes such as murder, arson, and \u2064rape, as reported by the\u200b Washington Free Beacon. While the\u2064 bill received bipartisan \u2062support in \u2062the \u200dSenate, it was \u200bblocked by six Democrats \u200bin the Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>However, \u200c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-democrats-fail-to-advance-bill-that-would-make-child-trafficking-a-serious-crime\/\" title=\"California Democrats fail to pass bill criminalizing child trafficking.\">facing significant \u2062political \u200bpressure<\/a>,\u2064 including\u2062 criticism from local media, those Democrats\u200b abruptly reversed their position\u2064 just two\u200c days later.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the Appropriations \u2063Committee claims that the\u200d bill would have a fiscal\u200d impact \u2064of over $150,000, \u2064which has \u200cprompted the suspense \u2063file process.<\/p>\n<p>Grove \u2062strongly criticized those who would put a &#8220;price tag&#8221; on the lives of victims\u2064 of\u200d human trafficking, especially children. In a press release,\u200c she\u200c stated, &#8220;Selling a \u200bchild\u200c to be raped over and over again is a crime so \u2063grotesque, immoral, and barbaric that it should be prevented and stopped at any cost.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Grove also highlighted the\u2063 unfortunate reality \u200bthat California \u200bis \u2064one of the leading states for\u2063 human trafficking in the United States, with thousands of \u2064individuals, \u200bmany of them minors,\u200d being \u200bsubjected to sexual \u200dand labor\u200c exploitation each year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of California&#8217;s Democratic State Assembly halted the progress of a bill that aimed to classify child sex trafficking as a severe felony. This action has left the bill in a state of &#8220;legislative purgatory,&#8221; according to a Republican representative. The Assembly&#8217;s Appropriations Committee transferred the bill to the &#8220;suspense file,&#8221; as described by Sacramento&#8217;s CapRadio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":162,"featured_media":2003608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2003607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2003607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2003608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2003607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2003607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2003607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}