Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 88 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to establish a task force to examine the issue of human trafficking and to identify ways to deter trafficking, support trafficked victims, and bring human traffickers to justice.

The Department of the Prosecuting Attorney, City and County of Honolulu submitted testimony in favor of this measure.

Your Committee finds that this measure will enable interested groups to collaboratively identify and study the issues surrounding human trafficking, and propose legislation that will deter human trafficking, bring traffickers to justice, and protect its victims. However, your Committee prefers House Bill No. 2051, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, which was recently passed out of the Senate Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, as the means for accomplishing these objectives.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Human Services that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 88, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 88, S.D. 1.