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MS HB1114

Bill

Status

Failed

3/3/2020

Primary Sponsor

William Arnold

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Origin

House of Representatives

2020 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Creates the Interstate Compact for Human Trafficking and authorizes Mississippi to enter into the compact with Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Tennessee, and West Virginia, with additional states eligible upon majority approval of compacting states.

  • Establishes the Interstate Commission on Human Trafficking composed of nine resident members from Mississippi including the Governor, Commissioner of Public Safety, Attorney General, and other state officials to coordinate efforts combating human trafficking.

  • Defines severe forms of trafficking in persons as sex trafficking induced by force, fraud or coercion (or involving persons under 18) and labor trafficking through forced labor, fraud, or coercion resulting in involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery.

  • Charges the commission with coordinating compact implementation, measuring progress in trafficking prevention and prosecution, collecting and organizing trafficking data, facilitating international cooperation, examining sex tourism's role in trafficking, and distributing information about the National Human Trafficking Resource Center Hotline.

  • Requires compacting states to equally apportion funds for commission operations and establishes procedures for state withdrawal (effective two years after enactment), default remediation, and compact termination with three-fourths commission vote if a state defaults for more than one year.

Legislative Description

Interstate compact on human trafficking; authorize state of Mississippi to enter into.

Last Action

Died In Committee

3/3/2020

Committee Referrals

Interstate Cooperation2/17/2020

Full Bill Text

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