SB1669
Sex Trafficking Response Coordinator; establishes position, duties, report.
Summary
As Passed Both Chambers. Sex Trafficking Response Coordinator; duties; report.
Creates, within the Department of Criminal Justice Services, a Sex Trafficking Response Coordinator (the Coordinator) who shall (i) create a statewide plan for local and state agencies to identify and respond to victims of sex trafficking; (ii) coordinate the development of standards and guidelines for treatment programs for victims of ... (More) sex trafficking; (iii) maintain a list of programs that provide treatment or specialized services to victims of sex trafficking and make such list available to law-enforcement agencies, attorneys for the Commonwealth, crime victim and witness assistance programs, the Department of Juvenile Justice, the Department of Social Services, the Department of Education, and school divisions; (iv) oversee the development of a curriculum to be completed by persons convicted of solicitation of prostitution; and (v) promote strategies for the awareness of sex trafficking, for education and training related to sex trafficking, and for the reduction of demand for commercial sex. The bill requires the Coordinator to report annually to the Governor and the General Assembly and include a summary of activities for the year and any recommendations to address sex trafficking within the Commonwealth. The bill as introduced was a recommendation of the Virginia State Crime Commission. This bill is identical to HB 2576. (Less)-
Bill History
- 01/10/2019 - Senate: Presented and ordered printed 19104154D
- 01/10/2019 - Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 01/23/2019 - Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice (13-Y 0-N)
- 01/23/2019 - Senate: Rereferred to Finance
- 01/29/2019 - Senate: Impact statement from DPB (SB1669)
- 01/31/2019 - Senate: Reported from Finance with amendment (16-Y 0-N)
- 02/04/2019 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/05/2019 - Senate: Read second time
- 02/05/2019 - Senate: Reading of amendment waived
- 02/05/2019 - Senate: Committee amendment agreed to
- 02/05/2019 - Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended SB1669E
- 02/05/2019 - Senate: Printed as engrossed 19104154D-E
- 02/05/2019 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/05/2019 - Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/06/2019 - Senate: Impact statement from DPB (SB1669E)
- 02/08/2019 - House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/08/2019 - House: Read first time
- 02/08/2019 - House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 02/11/2019 - House: House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- 02/11/2019 - House: Reported from Appropriations with amendment (22-Y 0-N)
- 02/12/2019 - House: Read second time
- 02/13/2019 - House: Read third time
- 02/13/2019 - House: Committee amendment agreed to
- 02/13/2019 - House: Engrossed by House as amended
- 02/13/2019 - House: Passed House with amendment BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N)
- 02/13/2019 - House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (98-Y 0-N)
- 02/15/2019 - Senate: House amendment agreed to by Senate (38-Y 0-N)
- 02/20/2019 - Senate: Enrolled
- 02/20/2019 - Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1669ER)
- 02/20/2019 - Senate: Impact statement from DPB (SB1669ER)
- 02/20/2019 - Senate: Signed by President
- 02/20/2019 - House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/27/2019 - Senate: Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 27, 2019
- 02/27/2019 - Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- 03/18/2019 - Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 514 (effective 7/1/19)
- 03/18/2019 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0514)
