General Assembly to vote on dueling sex-trafficking bills
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Two versions of bills to strengthen the law against sex-trafficking minors are scheduled for separate votes Thursday in the General Assembly. A bill (H-5661 Sub A) introduced by Rep. Joanne M. Giannini, D-Providence, is scheduled for a vote on the House floor. A seprate bill ((S-605 Sub A) introduced by Sen. Rhoda E. Perry, D-Providence, is scheduled for a vote on the Senate floor. Each bill must pass both the House and Senate to become law. The two bills -- both designed to stregthen the 2007 law against sex-trafficking -- differ in several key respects. Giannini's bill covers trafficking of forced labor for work that doesn't involve sex. Perry's bill includes a provision -- not included in Rep. Gianinni's bill -- that would create a trafficking-in-persons task force to develop an assessment protocol for identifying victims of trafficking. The task force, to be headed by the Rhode Island Commission on Women, would include members of law enforcement, representatives from the state health and labor deparmtments, as well as victims' advocates and the director of the National Association of Social Workers. 
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