H 3561 Massachusetts House · 193rd Legislature (2023-2024)

An Act relative to posting information about the National Human Trafficking Resource Center hotline

This bill requires cosmetology and barbering shops, schools, and mobile businesses in Massachusetts to display a specific warning sign about human trafficking. The sign must include the National Human Trafficking Resource Center hotline number and explain that forced labor is a crime, while also offering the option to remain anonymous. To ensure accessibility, the notice must be printed in English, Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese, Portuguese, and any other languages the state board recommends. The sign must be at least eight and a half inches high and eleven inches wide, with the English text covering at least half of the space, and it must be placed where it is clearly visible to both the public and employees.
Bill status passed 3 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2023
Committee Review
Mar 2023
Senate Passage
Mar 2023
Governor
Introduced Mar 30, 2023 Last action Oct 19, 2023
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This bill passed the Senate. No roll call record of that vote is available.
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Total actions
4
Key actions
1
Committee
1
Mar 30, 2023
Upper · Passed
Senate concurred
upper
Mar 30, 2023
Committee
Referred to the committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure
lower
1 primary · 2 co-sponsors

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