HB 125 Summary

• Authorizes the Department of Human Services to contract with victim service providers to operate and manage sex trafficking special treatment facilities for minors.

• Defines eligible residents as persons under 18 years old who are engaged in prostitution, victims of sex trafficking, or victims of federal sex trafficking crimes.

• Requires contracted facilities to be licensed as special treatment facilities by the Department of Health and to provide housing and therapeutic services including rehabilitation, education, medical care, and mental health treatment.

• Establishes the victim service provider as responsible for determining eligibility, degree of need, treatment course, and ongoing residence status in consultation with the Department and family court.

• Appropriates unspecified funds for fiscal years 2017-2018 and 2018-2019 to implement the Act, with providers required to submit annual financial reports.