Bill Text: NJ A4004 | 2022-2023 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Specifies additional services for victims of sex trafficking and domestic violence; makes $1,000,000 appropriation.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-12-07 - Referred to Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee [A4004 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2022-A4004-Amended.html

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[First Reprint]

ASSEMBLY, No. 4004

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

220th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED MAY 16, 2022

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman  CAROL A. MURPHY

District 7 (Burlington)

Assemblywoman  ANGELA V. MCKNIGHT

District 31 (Hudson)

Assemblywoman  BRITNEE N. TIMBERLAKE

District 34 (Essex and Passaic)

 

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblyman Caputo

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Specifies additional services for victims of sex trafficking and domestic violence; makes $1,000,000 appropriation.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As reported by the Assembly Appropriations Committee on March 23, 2023, with amendments.

  

An Act concerning services for victims of sex trafficking and domestic violence, supplementing Title 2C of the New Jersey Statutes, and making an appropriation.

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.    The Attorney General, in consultation with the Department of Children and Families, Commission on Human Trafficking, and Advisory Council on Domestic Violence, shall establish a program to ensure that victims of sex trafficking and domestic violence are provided with a safe haven at fire stations throughout the State.  Victims shall be referred by ¹[fire station personnel] firefighters¹ to appropriate emergency shelters, legal assistance, victim advocacy services, and community resources.  The safe haven program shall include, but not be limited to, the following:

     a. specific training and educational requirements for ¹[fire station personnel] firefighters¹ concerning emergency housing, victim advocacy, ¹the role of law enforcement in assisting victims,¹ legal assistance, and community resources that are available to victims of sex trafficking and domestic violence;

     b.  victim ¹[intake]¹ evaluation criteria and requirements for ¹[fire station personnel] firefighters¹ who make referrals and assist in the coordination of services for victims pursuant to subsection a. of this section;

     c.  anti-discrimination requirements that ensure victims of sex trafficking and domestic violence obtain the benefits and services required by this section without regard to their citizenship status; and

     ¹d.   specific training requirements for firefighters who assist victims of human trafficking and abuse pursuant to this section to enable them to serve as referral sources for, and facilitate access of victims to, appropriate resources and services within New Jersey.¹

 

     2.    There is appropriated $1,000,000 from the General Fund to the Human Trafficking Survivor's Assistance Fund, established by Section 2 of P.L.2013, c.51 (C.52:17B-238), to be used exclusively to establish and implement the requirements set forth in section 1 of this act.

 

     3.    The Attorney General shall adopt rules and regulations, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), necessary to implement the provisions of this act.

 

     4.    This act shall take effect on the first day of the fourth month next following enactment, but the Attorney General may take such anticipatory administrative action in advance as shall be necessary for implementation of the act.