STAND. COM. REP. NO.  118

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

RE:   H.B. No. 946

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 946 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to:

     (1)  Establish the offense of human trafficking in the first degree;

     (2)  Establish the offenses of sexual human trafficking in first and second degrees;

     (3)  Establish a civil action for damages to victims of human trafficking; and

     (4)  Include sexual human trafficking among the offenses that the Attorney General is to give greatest priority to in providing security, protection, and funding under the statewide witness program.

     The Hawaii Family Forum, Hawaii Catholic Conference, Life of the Land, and a concerned individual submitted testimony in support of this bill.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

     (1)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, 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 is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 946, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 946, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Labor & Public Employment.

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

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JOHN M. MIZUNO, Chair