THE THIRTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2022
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Senator Joy A. San Buenaventura, Chair |
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Senator Les Ihara, Jr., Vice Chair |
NOTICE OF HEARING
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DATE: |
Tuesday, February 8, 2022 |
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TIME: |
3:30pm |
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Conference Room 225 & Videoconference |
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RELATING TO THE RIGHT TO EXIT THE SEX TRADE. Establishes a 1-year pilot program within the Department of Human Services to provide a basic monthly income of $2,000 for up to 1 year, to qualified persons who are verified victims of sex trafficking, or who are female or sexual and gender minority individuals seeking to exit the sex trade. Requires the Department to keep confidential the personal information of applicants and program participants. Appropriates moneys. Requires report to the Legislature.
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HMS, WAM/JDC |
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RELATING TO SEX TRAFFICKING. Decriminalizes the act of engaging in, or agreeing or offering to engage in, sexual conduct with another person in return for a fee or anything of value. Authorizes civil claims to be made against a business, owner or operator of a transient accommodation, or other commercial entity that profits from sexual exploitation. Converts the human trafficking victim services fund to a human trafficking reparations fund.
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HMS, JDC/WAM |
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RELATING TO HUMAN TRAFFICKING. Requires the Department of Human Services to develop, and certain businesses and establishments to post, a notice containing information about the National Human Trafficking Hotline. Requires the Department of the Attorney General to establish a human trafficking statewide coordinator and program and to submit reports to the Legislature on efforts to address human trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation of children. Requires the children's justice program to coordinate the investigation and case management of child trafficking cases, including those involving commercial sexual exploitation of children. Specifies that court-ordered restitution for labor trafficking may include medical costs of necessary victim rehabilitation. Requires a person convicted of sex trafficking to forfeit assets from trafficking activity and requires that assets first be used to pay restitution and damages owed to the trafficking victim. Provides a process for trafficking victims to have criminal records expunged in certain circumstances.
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HMS, JDC |
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RELATING TO COURT-APPOINTED ATTORNEYS. Requires the court to appoint counsel to indigent parents upon the filing of a petition for custody or family supervision and make every effort to do so at the first hearing attended by the parents.
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HMS, JDC |
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RELATING TO THE HAWAII INTERAGENCY COUNCIL ON HOMELESSNESS. Adds a representative of an LGBTQ+ focused organization as a member on the Hawaii Interagency Council on Homelessness.
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HMS, JDC/WAM |
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Decision Making to follow, if time permits.
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_____________________________________ Senator Joy A. San Buenaventura Chair |