(ONN) – When the Ohio Legislature reconvenes this fall, stricter human trafficking penalties will be on the agenda.

Lawmakers will be discussing the Human Trafficking Prevention Act.

It aims to increase the penalty for kidnapping, abducting and human trafficking of children under 13 or those with developmental disabilities.

Charges would be made harsher and the sentences would be increased to 15 or even 25 years to life in prison for the criminals.

The Ohio Legislature is scheduled to get back into work in mid-September.