Human trafficking: specialized license plates.

Plain English Breakdown

The bill summary does not specify the exact requirements or criteria for community-based organizations to receive grants, leaving some uncertainty about which groups will qualify.

License Plates for Human Trafficking Awareness

This law creates a special license plate program to raise awareness about human trafficking and funds grants to help survivors through the Survivors of Human Trafficking License Plate Fund.

What This Bill Does

• Creates a new specialized license plate called the 'Human Trafficking Awareness' plate.
• Establishes the Survivors of Human Trafficking License Plate Fund for revenue from these plates.
• Requires OES to provide grants to community-based organizations that offer direct services to vulnerable individuals in areas with high concentrations of human trafficking, upon appropriation by the Legislature.
• OES must submit an annual report to the Legislature detailing how the funds are used.

Who It Names or Affects

• People who buy special license plates
• Community-based organizations that provide direct services to survivors of human trafficking
• The Office of Emergency Services (OES)

Terms To Know

Survivors of Human Trafficking Grant Program

A program funded by money from special license plate sales to give grants to community-based organizations that provide direct services to survivors of human trafficking.

Office of Emergency Services (OES)

The state agency responsible for managing emergency services and administering grant programs like the one created in this bill.

Limits and Unknowns

• It is not clear how much money will be raised from selling these plates.
• This law needs yearly approval to continue funding grants.
• Details about which community groups can receive grants are specified but may vary based on the discretion of OES and legislative appropriation.

Official Summary Text

SB 1018, as amended, Grove.
Human trafficking: specialized license plates.
Existing law authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to issue specialized license plates. Under existing law, a state agency is authorized to apply to the DMV to sponsor a specialized license plate program, and the DMV is required to issue those license plates if the agency meets certain requirements. The DMV is required to charge specified fees for certain services related to the issuance of those plates. Existing law requires the Office of Emergency Services (OES) to apply to the DMV to sponsor a domestic violence and sexual assault awareness license plate program, and establishes the California Domestic Violence Prevention Fund in the State Treasury for the deposit of the revenue derived from these license plates. These funds are allocated, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to OES for purposes of funding the Family Violence Prevention Program.
This bill would establish the survivors of human trafficking grant program administered by OES to benefit survivors of human trafficking and would require the OES to apply to the DMV to sponsor a human trafficking awareness license plate program. The bill would establish the Survivors of Human Trafficking License Plate Fund for the deposit of revenue derived from these license plates and would require that funds from these license plates be allocated, upon an appropriation by the Legislature, to the OES for the purpose of funding the survivors of human trafficking grant program. The bill would require the OES to provide grants to community-based organizations, as specified, that provide direct services to vulnerable individuals in areas with high concentrations of human trafficking, and would require OES to submit a report annually to the Legislature, as specified.
The bill would state
that this act may be cited as Blair and Kendra’s Law.

Current Bill Text

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