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Committee backs bill asking FCC to clear a three‑digit trafficking hotline
Summary
A Utah committee unanimously recommended HB411 (first substitute), which asks the state to apply to the FCC for a national three‑digit human‑trafficking hotline. Supporters, including a survivor and nonprofit leaders, said a single short number would reduce reporting barriers; the bill carries a $0 fiscal note.
Representative Peck asked a legislative committee to recommend that Utah press the federal government for a single three‑digit human‑trafficking hotline, arguing on behalf of survivors and responders that a short, memorable number would make it easier to report and route calls to trained professionals.
Rep. Peck opened the presentation by citing National Center for Missing and Exploited Children reporting and other estimates to describe what she called widespread underreporting of child trafficking. "We want to petition the federal government to give the nation a 3 digit number for child trafficking," she told the committee, adding that Department of Health and Human Services staff have prepared an FCC application and that the attorney general’s office has been involved in drafting ideas for the submission.…
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