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Providing for a human trafficking task force and providing information in an annual report to the general assembly
Topics:Crime & correctionsFamilies & human servicesPublic safety & emergencies
Same legislation: SF 545
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 20, 2023
- Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 21, 2023
- Done: Senate committeeMarch 6, 2023
- Skipped: Passes the SenateContinued as SF 545
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Became SF 545 → Its progress continues under the new number. Go to SF 545 What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary Iowa's commissioner of public safety will create a special task force to study how to better help children who are victims of human trafficking. This group will look for ways to improve medical and legal help for these minors and create a standard plan for police officers to follow when they find a victim. The goal is to develop a system that focuses on rehabilitation instead of punishing children for being trafficked.1
Read the official explanation
This bill directs the commissioner of public safety to establish a human trafficking task force to investigate human trafficking (trafficking) of minors in the state, identify services available for minor victims of trafficking, identify barriers that prevent minor victims of trafficking from seeking legal assistance or medical attention, research and recommend a model of rehabilitative services for minor victims of trafficking, create a procedure to be followed by all law enforcement officers statewide if a law enforcement officer encounters a minor who may be a victim of trafficking, and create a pathway for the implementation of a safe harbor law that prohibits the prosecution of minor victims of trafficking and directs minor victims of trafficking to rehabilitative services. The members of the task force are specified in the bill. The bill requires the commissioner to provide the findings and recommendations of the task force to the coordinator of the office to combat human trafficking for inclusion in the annual report submitted to the general assembly.
Changed since by amendment S-3059; see Amendments.
Senate subcommittee
Named February 21, 2023. On March 1, 2023 it recommended amendment and passage. [].
Three legislators hear a bill first and recommend what the committee should do; it’s the best time to weigh in. How to take part
104 written public comments to its subcommittee: March 1, 2023 (104) · on the Legislature’s site
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