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Senate committee keeps human-trafficking signage requirement but scales back some mandates for private businesses; adds massage-parlor oversight language
Summary
The Corrections and Criminal Law Committee advanced an amended House bill that requires human-trafficking awareness materials at state rest areas and makes posting optional for many private businesses, while adding and then moderating regulation of certain massage establishments; the amended bill passed the committee unanimously.
The Corrections and Criminal Law Committee advanced House Bill 1416 on Tuesday after several hours of testimony and floor debate, approving an amended version that retains mandatory postings at state rest areas, makes most private-business postings optional, and adds new record-keeping and display requirements for certain storefront massage establishments — language that the committee later softened from mandatory to permissive for some poster requirements.
Representative Bartlett, the bill sponsor, told the committee the measure is intended to increase awareness of human trafficking by placing posters in rest-area bathrooms and by encouraging hospitality and service workers to complete a short training. "Human trafficking is the worst crime that can possibly be committed," Bartlett said, adding…
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