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House Co-Sponsorship Memoranda
House of Representatives
Session of 2023 - 2024
Regular Session
MEMORANDUM
| Posted: | January 5, 2023 09:22 AM |
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| From: | Representative Robert Leadbeter |
| To: | All House members |
| Subject: | Anti-Human Trafficking Prevention in Higher Education |
| Sex trafficking is a growing epidemic in our society and exists because our culture drives the normalization of sex and pornography. The fastest-growing form of trafficking today is familial trafficking. The predator is a familiar figure and the victim functions as a normal human while being exploited. The predator uses the victim’s trust as a silencing mechanism and enforces force, fraud, and coercion, manipulating the victim for sex. In the near future, I intend to propose legislation that will allow our Commonwealth’s public institutions of higher education to partner with nonprofit organizations to provide their first-years students with an opportunity to attend a series of in-depth prevention and education programs regarding sex trafficking and exploitation. Specifically, this legislation will direct public institutions of higher education to provide all first-year students with the opportunity to attend one of three on-campus, voluntary sex trafficking and exploitation prevention and education programs. It will direct program materials relating to the programs to be provided at no cost, with the program provider being solely responsible for incurring all costs associated with implementing the programs and related materials. Please join me in co-sponsoring this important legislation. |
Introduced as HB93