2011 Kansas Code
Chapter 21. - CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS
Article 34. - CRIMES AGAINST PERSONS
21-3446 Human trafficking.

21-3446. Human trafficking. (a) Human trafficking is:

(1) The recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud or coercion for the purpose of subjecting the person to involuntary servitude or forced labor;

(2) benefitting financially or by receiving anything of value from participation in a venture that has engaged in acts set forth in paragraph (1);

(3) coercing employment by obtaining or maintaining labor or services that are performed or provided by another person through any of the following:

(A) Causing or threatening to cause physical injury to any person;

(B) physically restraining or threatening to physically restrain another person;

(C) abusing or threatening to abuse the law or legal process;

(D) threatening to withhold food, lodging or clothing; or

(E) knowingly destroying, concealing, removing, confiscating or possessing any actual or purported government identification document of another person; or

(4) knowingly holding another person in a condition of peonage in satisfaction of a debt owed the person who is holding such other person. "Peonage" means a condition of involuntary servitude in which the victim is forced to work for another person by the use or threat of physical restraint or physical injury, or by the use or threat of coercion through law or the legal process.

(b) Human trafficking is a severity level 2, person felony.

(c) The provisions of this section shall not apply to the use of the labor of any person incarcerated in a state or county correctional facility or city jail.

(d) This section shall be part of and supplemental to the Kansas criminal code.