Sponsored by:
Assemblywoman NANCY F. MUNOZ
District 21 (Morris, Somerset and Union)
Assemblywoman BRITNEE N. TIMBERLAKE
District 34 (Essex and Passaic)
Assemblywoman MICHELE MATSIKOUDIS
District 21 (Morris, Somerset and Union)
SYNOPSIS
Requires Attorney General to establish educational and public information program concerning State and federal crimes of human trafficking; appropriates $75,000.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning human trafficking and supplementing P.L.2013, c.51 (C.52:17B-237 et al.).
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. The Attorney General shall establish an educational and public information program concerning the State and federal crimes of human trafficking.
2. There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Office of the Attorney General the amount of $75,000 to effectuate the purposes of this act.
3. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
P.L.2013, c.51, the “Human Trafficking Prevention, Protection, and Treatment Act,” among other provisions created the Commission on Human Trafficking in the Division of Criminal Justice in the Department of Law and Public Safety; established the “Human Trafficking Survivor’s Assistance Fund” to provide services to human trafficking victims, promote awareness of human trafficking, and create certain training and education programs; upgraded penalties for crimes related to human trafficking; and required training programs for law enforcement, hotel and motel staff, employees of health care facilities, judges and judicial personnel concerning human trafficking. This bill would establish an educational program for the general public. Under the bill, the Attorney General would establish an educational and public information program concerning the State and federal crimes of human trafficking.
The bill would appropriate $75,000 to the Office of the Attorney General for these purposes.