Report Title:

Hawaii Anti-trafficking Task Force

Description:

Extends the sunset date for the Hawaii Anti-trafficking Task Force to 2010.  Adds members to the Task Force.  Appropriates funds.  (SD1)

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	2772
TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2008		H.D. 3
STATE OF HAWAII		S.D. 1

A BILL FOR AN ACT

RELATING TO HUMAN TRAFFICKING.

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

     SECTION 1.  Act 260, Session Laws of Hawaii 2006, is amended as follows:

     1.  By amending subsection (a) of section 2 to read:

     "(a)  There is established the Hawaii anti-trafficking task force.  The anti-trafficking task force shall be comprised of the following:

(1) Individuals:

    [(1)] (A)  The attorney general, or the attorney general's designees;

    [(2)] (B)  The directors of health, human services, and labor, or their designees;

(C) The state public defender, or the state public defender's designee;

    [(3)] (D)  The chief of police of each county, or the chief's designee;

    [(4)] (E)  The prosecuting attorney of each county, or the prosecutor's designee;

    [(5)] (F)  The director of the victim and witness assistance program of the department of the prosecuting attorney, city and county of Honolulu;

(G) Hawaii contractees for services under the office of refugee resettlement of the United States Department of Health and Human Services; and

(H) Hawaii contractees for services under the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops; and

(2) Representatives of:

(A) The immigration information office of the county of Hawaii;

(B) The crime victim compensation commission;

(C) The office of the gender equity counselor of the University of Hawaii;

(D) The Hawaii State Coalition Against Domestic Violence;

    [(6)] (E)  The Salvation Army;

    [(7) Sisters Offering Support;

(8)] (F)  The Sex Abuse Treatment Center;

    [(9)] (G)  GirlFest;

   [(10)] (H)  Na Loio Immigrant Rights and Public Interest Legal Center;

   [(11)] (I)  The Domestic Violence [Clearinghouse and Legal Hotline;] Action Center; and

   [(12)] (J)  The Hawaii State Coalition Against Sexual Assault.

     [The Task Force] Task force members shall serve without compensation but shall be reimbursed for expenses, including travel expenses, necessary for the performance of their duties."

     2.  By amending subsections (d) and (e) of section 2 to read:

     "(d)  Not less than twenty days prior to the convening of the regular sessions of 2007 [and], 2008, and 2009, the task force shall provide to the legislature a report on its activities[.]; provided that not less than twenty days prior to the convening of the regular session of 2010, the task force shall provide the legislature a final report of its activities, including findings and recommendations, and any proposed legislation.

     (e)  The task force shall cease to exist on June 30, [2008.] 2010."

     SECTION 2.  There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $           or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2008-2009 for travel and clerical expenses of the Hawaii anti-trafficking task force.

     The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of the attorney general for the purposes of this Act.

     SECTION 3.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2008; provided that section 1 shall take effect on June 29, 2008.