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| 3 | 3 | | LCO No. 538 1 of 2 |
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| 5 | 5 | | General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 521 |
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| 6 | 6 | | January Session, 2025 |
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| 7 | 7 | | LCO No. 538 |
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| 10 | 10 | | Referred to Committee on JUDICIARY |
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| 13 | 13 | | Introduced by: |
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| 14 | 14 | | SEN. SAMPSON, 16th Dist. |
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| 18 | 18 | | AN ACT CONCERNING CHILD SEX TRAFFICKING. |
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| 19 | 19 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General |
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| 20 | 20 | | Assembly convened: |
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| 22 | 22 | | That the general statutes be amended to protect children and youth 1 |
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| 23 | 23 | | from sex trafficking in Connecticut by (1) updating certain criminal 2 |
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| 24 | 24 | | statutes to make them applicable to conduct against minors and include 3 |
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| 25 | 25 | | buyer conduct; (2) developing policy guidance to facilitate appropriate 4 |
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| 26 | 26 | | responses to foreign national child sex trafficking victims; (3) requiring 5 |
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| 27 | 27 | | child welfare and juvenile justice agencies to conduct trauma-informed 6 |
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| 28 | 28 | | commercial sexual exploitation of children screening of children who 7 |
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| 29 | 29 | | are at risk of sex trafficking and require the agencies to provide 8 |
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| 30 | 30 | | specialized services for identified sex-trafficked children; (4) expressly 9 |
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| 31 | 31 | | providing commercial sexual exploitation of children victims ability to 10 |
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| 32 | 32 | | obtain orders of protection against their exploiters; (5) amending 11 |
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| 33 | 33 | | subsection (a) of section 54-86g of the general statutes to allow all 12 |
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| 34 | 34 | | commercial sexual exploitation of children victims to testify by 13 |
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| 35 | 35 | | alternative method, regardless of age; (6) providing commercial sexual 14 |
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| 36 | 36 | | exploitation of children victims with a child sex trafficking-specific 15 |
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| 37 | 37 | | caseworker, and protect their communications as privileged to protect 16 Proposed Bill No. 521 |
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| 40 | 40 | | LCO No. 538 2 of 2 |
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| 42 | 42 | | the victim's conversations with the caseworker from being disclosed; 17 |
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| 43 | 43 | | and (7) mandating state-wide training for child welfare and juvenile 18 |
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| 44 | 44 | | justice agencies on identification and response to child sex trafficking. 19 |
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| 45 | 45 | | Statement of Purpose: |
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| 46 | 46 | | To protect children and youth from sex trafficking in Connecticut. |
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