Bill Text: NJ A2558 | 2016-2017 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes 24-hour hotline and educational program concerning State and federal crimes of human trafficking; appropriates $75,000.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-04 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Judiciary Committee [A2558 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2016-A2558-Introduced.html

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ASSEMBLY, No. 2558

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

217th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 4, 2016

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman  NANCY F. MUNOZ

District 21 (Morris, Somerset and Union)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Establishes 24-hour hotline and educational 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 and maintain on a 24-hour daily basis a toll-free hotline telephone service and shall take appropriate steps to publicize the hotline.  The hotline shall receive information from members of the public who have knowledge of or who believe that an act of human trafficking in violation of State or federal law is being or has been committed.  The hotline shall also receive and respond to requests for information from members of the public concerning human trafficking.

 

     2.    The Attorney General shall establish an educational and public information program concerning the State and federal crimes of human trafficking.

 

     3.    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.

 

     4.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill would require the Attorney General to establish and maintain a 24-hour toll-free telephone hotline to receive information from members of the public who have knowledge of or who believe that an act of human trafficking in violation of State or federal law is being or has been committed.  The hotline would also receive and respond to requests for information from members of the public concerning human trafficking.  In addition, the bill would require the Attorney General to 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 the above purposes.