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North carolina — Pending Legislation
Bill: SENATE BILL S525
Short Description: NC Stop Human Trafficking Funds
Synopsis: Introduced in order to appropriate funds to NC Stop Human Trafficking.
Sponsor: Sen. Donald G. Davis
Legislative History:
Filed (Senate) – 4/5/2021;
Passed 1st Reading (Senate) – 4/6/2021;
Withdrawn From Com – 4/7/2021
Last Action/Status: In Committee (Re-ref to Appropriations/Base Budget. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate)
Bill: SENATE BILL S714
Short Description: Human Trafficking/Child Exploitation Prev.Act.
Synopsis: Adds new Article 9 to GS Chapter 73, to be known as the "Human Trafficking and Child Exploitation Prevention Act." Requires a retailer that manufactures, sells, offers for sale, leases, or distributes an internet-enabled device (retailer) to ensure that the product is equipped with an active and operating filter before sale that blocks, by default, websites that: (1) are known to facilitate human trafficking or prostitution; or (2) display child pornography, revenge pornography, or obscene material harmful to minors. Requires those same retailers to (1) make ongoing efforts to ensure that a product's filter functions properly; (2) establish a reporting mechanism for consumer to report unblocked websites displaying the content described above or to report blocked websites that are not displaying such content; (3) report child pornography received through the reporting mechanism; and (4) establish a procedure to avoid blocking access to websites that are social media sites that allow uses to report obscene materials and have a process for remove that material, serve as a search engine, or display movies that have the specified ratings. Sets out conditions under which the retailer must deactivate a consumer's filter.
Legislative History:
Filed (Senate) – 4/7/2021;
Passed 1st Reading (Senate) – 4/8/2021;
Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate – 4/8/2021.
Last Action/Status: In Committee (Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate on 4/8/2021).
Bill: SENATE BILL S518
Short Description: Human Trafficking/Child Exploitation Prev.Act.
Synopsis: This act amends various abuse, neglect, and dependency laws to ensure the safety of children in out-of-home placements and expedite permanency planning hearings for children who have been removed from the home; clarifies the non-caretaker definition for the responsible individuals list; increases the number of emergency judges to address the child welfare case backlog; hires regional abuse and medical specialists to improve the child welfare system; requires the DHHS, division of social services, to develop a plan to implement a centralized hotline for child welfare intake. In particular, enacts GS 7B-320(a1) to require a dss director to cooperate with law enforcement and the district attorney to determine the safest way possible to provide notification to the identified responsible individual if the director determines that the juvenile is the victim of human trafficking by an individual other than the juvenile's parent, guardian, custodian, or caretaker. Requires documentation of the basis for not providing this notification.
Legislative History:
Filed (Senate) – 4/5/2021;
Passed 1st Reading (Senate) – 4/6/2021;
Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate – 4/6/2021
Last Action/Status: In Committee (Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate on 4/6/2021)
Bill: SENATE BILL S539
Short Description: Disclose Human Trafficking Conviction/Custody.
Synopsis: This act requires the disclosure of a conviction for human trafficking in a child custody proceeding and expands conduct prohibited by the human trafficking law. In particular, this Act amends GS 14-43.11 to include in the offense of human trafficking when a person knowingly or in reckless disregard of the consequences, patronizes another person with the intent that the other person be held in involuntary or sexual servitude.
Legislative History:
Filed (Senate) – 4/5/2021;
Passed 1st Reading (Senate) – 4/6/2021;
Re-ref to Judiciary. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate – 4/6/2021;
Reptd Fav Com Substitute – 4/20/2021;
Passed 2nd and 3rd Reading (Senate) – 4/22/2021;
Regular Message Sent To House – 4/26/2021;
Passed 1st Reading (House) – 4/27/2021;
Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House – 4/27/2021.
Last Action/Status: In Committee (Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House)
Bill: SENATE BILL S105
Short Description: 2021 Appropriations Act.
Synopsis: The Act makes base budget appropriations for current operations of state agencies, departments, and institutions. In particular, changes the funds appropriated in the act to the Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse Services for directed grant to Gigi's Playhouse, Inc., for the location in Charlotte, by $400,000 in nonrecurring funds for the 2021-22 fiscal year, and provides for $400,000 to the Division to be used for a directed grant to Gigi's Playhouse, Inc., for the location in Raleigh.
Sponsors: Daniel; Edwards; Krawiec; McInnis; B. Jackson; Harrington; Hise (Primary)
Legislative History:
Filed (Senate) – 2/17/2021;
Passed 1st Reading – 2/17/2021;
Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate – 2/18/2021;
Engrossed (Senate) – 6/25/2021;
Passed 1st Reading (House) – 6/29/2021;
Ordered Enrolled, Ratified, Signed - 11/18/2021
Last Action/Status: Ratified, Signed
Bill: HOUSE BILL H165
Short Description: DOT Legislative Changes.-AB
Synopsis: This act makes changes to certain laws, as recommended by the Department of Transportation. In particular, this Act amends GS 20-37.14A to require the DMV to permanently bar, as specified, from operating a commercial vehicle a person who uses a commercial vehicle in committing a felony involving an act or practice described in the specified federal law regarding human trafficking. Makes conforming changes to the statute's caption.
Legislative History:
Filed (House) – 2/25/2021;
Passed 1st Reading – 3/1/2021;
Passed 2nd and 3rd Reading - 5/6/2021;
Regular Message Sent To Senate - 5/7/2021;
Passed 1st Reading (Senate) – 5/10/2021;
Passed 2nd and 3rd Reading - 10/6/2021;
Ordered Enrolled - 11/17/2021;
Signed - 11/23/2021.
Last Action/Status: Ratified, Signed
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