H971 - Human Trafficking Changes. (SL 2024-26)

Overview: S.L. 2024-26 does the following:

• Directs the Department of Labor to develop human trafficking awareness training.
• Requires certain employees and third-party contractors of lodging establishments and vacation rentals to complete human trafficking awareness training.
• Increases the penalty for a first offense of soliciting another for prostitution.
• Allows victims and alleged victims of human trafficking crimes to move for victim confidentiality in criminal proceedings.
• Requires any person initiating a child custody proceeding to disclose certain criminal convictions and history of child custody proceedings.
• Generally prohibits viewing of pornography by employees on government networks and devices, including those of public agencies, the judicial branch, and the legislative branch.
• Directs the Division of Social Services, Department of Health and Human Services, to expand, further develop, and implement human trafficking awareness trainings.
• Provides Criminal Justice Law Enforcement Automated Data Services (CJLEADS) access to campus police.
• Establishes that documentation compiled by the Housing Finance Agency for the purposes of financing housing for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking are not public records.
• Modifies the definition of victim in the Crime Victim's Compensation Act.

This act has various effective dates. Please see the full summary for more detail.