HB 398 Summary

• Renames the Human Trafficking Interagency Coordinating Council as the Delaware Anti-Trafficking Action Council and transfers it from the Department of Health and Social Services to the Criminal Justice Council.

• Requires the Council to appoint an Executive Director who serves at the Council's pleasure and may employ staff and contract for services within appropriated funds to carry out the Council's statutory duties.

• Expands Council responsibilities to include coordinating training for government employees, health-care workers, business owners, and private sector employees on human trafficking prevention and victim services.

• Adds annual reporting requirements, including submission to the Governor, General Assembly, Chief Justice, and Criminal Justice Council Executive Director by September 15, with accounting of State funds spent.

• Designates the bill as the February O'Donnell and Amy Day Act in honor of a trafficking survivor and victims' services volunteer who advanced Delaware's anti-trafficking efforts.