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Combatting Human Trafficking and Protecting Survivors
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What they voted on
Add a proposed change (amendment) to the bill
Official wording: S.2151, Question on adoption of the amendment
Who filed S.2151
Sponsor Mark C. Montigny
Co-sponsors 5
Joan B. Lovely, Julian Cyr, Linda Dorcena Forry, Michael F. Rush, Richard J. Ross
Amendment adopted
Every member's vote
Voted yes (38)
- Michael J. Barrett Third Middlesex · Democrat
- Joseph A. Boncore First Suffolk and Middlesex · Democrat
- Michael D. Brady Second Plymouth and Bristol · Democrat
- William N. Brownsberger Second Suffolk and Middlesex · Democrat
- Harriette L. Chandler First Worcester · Democrat
- Sonia Chang-Diaz Second Suffolk · Democrat
- Cynthia Stone Creem First Middlesex and Norfolk · Democrat
- Julian Cyr Cape and Islands · Democrat
- Viriato M. deMacedo Plymouth and Barnstable · Republican
- Sal N. DiDomenico Middlesex and Suffolk · Democrat
- Eileen M. Donoghue First Middlesex · Democrat
- James B. Eldridge Middlesex and Worcester · Democrat
- Ryan C. Fattman Worcester and Norfolk · Republican
- Jennifer L. Flanagan Worcester and Middlesex · Democrat
- Linda Dorcena Forry First Suffolk · Democrat
- Anne M. Gobi Worcester, Hampden, Hampshire and Middlesex · Democrat
- Adam G. Hinds Berkshire, Hampshire, Franklin and Hampden · Democrat
- Donald F. Humason, Jr. Second Hampden and Hampshire · Republican
- Kathleen O'Connor Ives First Essex · Democrat
- Patricia D. Jehlen Second Middlesex · Democrat
- John F. Keenan Norfolk and Plymouth · Democrat
- Barbara A. L'Italien Second Essex and Middlesex · Democrat
- Eric P. Lesser First Hampden and Hampshire · Democrat
- Jason M. Lewis Fifth Middlesex · Democrat
- Joan B. Lovely Second Essex · Democrat
- Thomas M. McGee Third Essex · Democrat
- Mark C. Montigny Second Bristol and Plymouth · Democrat
- Michael O. Moore Second Worcester · Democrat
- Patrick M. O'Connor Plymouth and Norfolk · Republican
- Marc R. Pacheco First Plymouth and Bristol · Democrat
- Michael J. Rodrigues First Bristol and Plymouth · Democrat
- Stanley C. Rosenberg Hampshire, Franklin and Worcester · Democrat
- Richard J. Ross Norfolk, Bristol and Middlesex · Republican
- Michael F. Rush Norfolk and Suffolk · Democrat
- Karen E. Spilka Second Middlesex and Norfolk · Democrat
- Bruce E. Tarr First Essex and Middlesex · Republican
- Walter F. Timilty Norfolk, Bristol and Plymouth · Democrat
- James T. Welch Hampden · Democrat
What it means
This is a Senate budget amendment, titled Combatting Human Trafficking and Protecting Survivors, offered to the fiscal year 2018 budget. It creates a state board to license bodywork therapists and lets police inspect bodywork businesses with legal process, and sets up a voluntary business partnership against human trafficking. It lets trafficking victims ask a court to clear certain non-felony convictions, creates first-offender 'commercial sexual exploitation prevention' programs that some first-time defendants can be sent to, and lets taxpayers give part of a refund to a Victims of Human Trafficking Trust Fund. It also requires crime data reporting, training on human trafficking for police, prosecutors, court workers, teachers and health workers, public awareness programs, and hotline signs at transit stations and rest areas.
Source: official text and history of S.2151 on malegislature.gov. This describes the bill text posted there; amendments may have changed the version that was voted on.
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