Statutes | R.R.S. Neb. ยง 28-830 | 2020
For purposes of sections 28-830 and 28-831, the following definitions apply:
(1) Actor means a person who solicits, procures, or supervises the services or labor of another person
(2) Commercial sexual activity means any sex act on account of which anything of value is given, promised to, or received by any person
(3) Debt bondage means inducing another person to provide:
(a) Commercial sexual activity in payment toward or satisfaction of a real or purported debt or
(b) Labor or services in payment toward or satisfaction of a real or purported debt if:
(i) The reasonable value of the labor or services is not applied toward the liquidation of the debt or
(ii) The length of the labor or services is not limited and the nature of the labor or services is not defined
(4) Financial harm means theft by extortion as described by section 28-513
(5) Forced labor or services means labor or services that are performed or provided by another person and are obtained or maintained through:
(a) Inflicting or threatening to inflict serious personal injury, as defined by section 28-318, on another person
(b) Physically restraining or threatening to physically restrain the other person
(c) Abusing or threatening to abuse the legal process against another person to cause arrest or deportation for violation of federal immigration law
(d) Controlling or threatening to control another persons access to a controlled substance listed in Schedule I, II or III of section 28-405
(e) Exploiting another persons substantial functional impairment as defined in section 28-368 or substantial mental impairment as defined in section 28-369
(f) Knowingly destroying, concealing, removing, confiscating, or possessing any actual or purported passport or other immigration document or any other actual or purported government identification document of the other person or
(g) Causing or threatening to cause financial harm to another person, including debt bondage
(6) Labor or services means work or activity of economic or financial value
(7) Labor trafficking means knowingly recruiting, enticing, harboring, transporting, providing, or obtaining by any means or attempting to recruit, entice, harbor, transport, provide, or obtain by any means a person eighteen years of age or older intending or knowing that the person will be subjected to forced labor or services
(8) Labor trafficking of a minor means knowingly recruiting, enticing, harboring, transporting, providing, or obtaining by any means or attempting to recruit, entice, harbor, transport, provide, or obtain by any means a minor intending or knowing that the minor will be subjected to forced labor or services
(9) Maintain means, in relation to labor or services, to secure continued performance thereof, regardless of any initial agreement by the other person to perform such type of service
(10) Minor means a person younger than eighteen years of age