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GA SR983
Resolution
Status
Passed
2/20/2014
Primary Sponsor
Renee Unterman
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AI Summary
- Recognizes March 13, 2014, as End Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking Day at the Georgia state capitol, sponsored by Senator Unterman of the 45th district
- Notes that DMST victims in Georgia doubled from approximately 250 to almost 500 girls per month between late 2007 and early 2011, according to the Governor's Office for Children and Families
- Cites a youthSpark study finding that 7,200 men pay for sex with adolescent females each month in Georgia, accounting for 8,700 paid sex acts monthly
- Recognizes the work of Street Grace, youthSpark, and Wellspring Living in organizing tens of thousands of grassroots activists statewide and notes Georgia was the first state to begin seeing a systematic decline in adolescent DMST victims
- Acknowledges that passage of HB 200 raised Georgia's human trafficking law effectiveness grade to a B from Shared Hope International, one of the highest scores in the nation
Legislative Description
End Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking Day; recognize March 13, 2014
Last Action
Senate Read and Adopted
2/20/2014
Full Bill Text
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