| (2) | An actor commits human trafficking for commercial sexual exploitation if:
| (a) | the actor enlists, harbors, transports, obtains, patronizes, or solicits an individual for the purpose of procuring the individual's labor in the form of a commercial sexually explicit performance or commercial sexual act through the use of force, fraud, or coercion; and |
| (b) | the actor's use of force, fraud, or coercion described in Subsection (2)(a) involves:
| (i) | causing, or threatening to cause, serious harm to the individual or another individual; |
| (ii) | physically restraining, or threatening to physically restrain, the individual or another individual; |
| (iii) | destroying, concealing, removing, confiscating, or unlawfully possessing a passport, immigration document, or other government-issued identification document; |
| (iv) | using, or threatening to use, the legal process in an unlawful manner against the individual or another individual; |
| (v) | kidnapping, or threatening to kidnap, the individual or another individual; |
| (vi) | extortion of the individual or another individual; |
| (vii) | facilitating or controlling the individual's access to a controlled substance; or |
| (viii) | creating or exploiting a circumstance under which:
| (A) | the individual is unable to terminate the employment relationship; or |
| (B) | the individual is unlawfully forced to remain in a condition of servitude. |
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