Adopt the Support for Trafficking Survivors Act.
House Bill 234, Georgia
Enacting non-criminalization laws in tandem with a strong service response as this bill seeks to do, recognizes that children never engage in commercial sex by choice; rather, a child does so out of coercion, force, fraud, fear, or survival.
Legislative Bill 516, Nebraska
Change provisions relating to child abuse, the Child Protection and Family Safety Act, human trafficking, and child welfare services.
House Bill 827, Maryland
Enacting non-criminalization laws in tandem with a strong service response as this bill seeks to do, recognizes that children never engage in commercial sex by choice; rather, a child does so out of coercion, force, fraud, fear, or survival.
Senate Bill 13, Ohio
Senate Bill 13 seeks to resolve dated requirements by amending the state’s trafficking definition to include 16 and 17-year-olds as persons excluded from having to prove compulsion or exploitation by a person in a position of trust to qualify as a victim of sex trafficking.