Report Title:

Prostitution; Prevention Education & Diversion

Description:

Requires the department of human services to contract the services of a health and human services provider to establish a pilot prostitution prevention education and diversion program.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	2767
TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2008
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

relating to prostitution.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

     SECTION 1.  (a)  The department of human services shall contract the services of a health and human services provider to establish a pilot prostitution prevention education and diversion program.  The purpose of the program shall be to educate persons at risk for becoming prostitutes about the dangers of prostitution and how to avoid becoming a prostitute and to help prostitutes get out of prostitution.  The contract shall be executed in accordance with chapter 103F, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

     (b)  The agency contracted by the department of human services to establish the pilot program shall submit an interim report, including any proposed legislation, to the legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the 2009 regular session, and a final report, including any proposed legislation, to the legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the 2010 regular session.

     SECTION 2.  There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $300,000 or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2008-2009 for the department of human services to implement a pilot prostitution prevention education and diversion program.

     The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of human services for the purposes of this Act.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2008.

INTRODUCED BY:

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