Human trafficking: specialized license plates.

Plain English Breakdown

The bill summary does not provide specific details on the services required from community organizations to receive grants.

License Plates for Human Trafficking Awareness

This law creates a special license plate program to raise money for helping survivors of human trafficking in California.

What This Bill Does

• Requires the Office of Emergency Services (OES) to apply to the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to sponsor a human trafficking awareness license plate program.
• Establishes the Survivors of Human Trafficking License Plate Fund where money from these special plates will be deposited.
• Allocates funds from this fund, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to OES for funding the survivors of human trafficking grant program.
• Requires OES to provide grants to community-based organizations that offer direct services to vulnerable individuals in areas with high concentrations of human trafficking.
• Requires OES to submit an annual report on the program's progress and fund allocation to the state Legislature.

Who It Names or Affects

• People who buy special license plates for human trafficking awareness
• Community organizations that help survivors of human trafficking
• The Office of Emergency Services (OES) which administers the grant program

Terms To Know

Survivors of Human Trafficking Grant Program

A new program to give money to community groups that help people who have been trafficked.

Survivors of Human Trafficking License Plate Fund

The fund where money from special license plates goes, which is used to support the grant program for helping survivors of human trafficking.

Limits and Unknowns

• It's not clear how much money will be raised or how many people will buy these special plates.
• The bill does not specify exactly what services community groups must provide to receive grants from OES.

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.

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