Bill Text: HI HB1187 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Human Trafficking Awareness Month; Services; Minor Victims of Prostitution and Labor Trafficking

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-07-09 - Act 246, 7/1/2013 (Gov. Msg. No. 1349). [HB1187 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-HB1187-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  337

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1187

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 1187 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HUMAN TRAFFICKING,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to promote public awareness of human trafficking as a significant societal and public health crisis by designating the month of January as "Human Trafficking Awareness Month".  

 

     The Office of Community Services and IMUAlliance testified in support of this measure.   

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Human Services that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1187 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Human Services,

 

 

		____________________________ MELE CARROLL, Chair