PRIOR PRINTER'S NO. 2946
PRINTER'S NO. 3196
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE RESOLUTION
No.
618
Session of
2019
INTRODUCED BY THOMAS, BERNSTINE, BIZZARRO, BOBACK, BROOKS,
BROWN, BURNS, CALTAGIRONE, CIRESI, SCHLEGEL CULVER, T. DAVIS,
DeLUCA, DiGIROLAMO, EVERETT, FARRY, FRANKEL, FREEMAN, GILLEN,
GLEIM, GROVE, HENNESSEY, HICKERNELL, HILL-EVANS, HOHENSTEIN,
HOWARD, JONES, KAUFFMAN, KINSEY, KORTZ, LONGIETTI, McCLINTON,
McNEILL, MENTZER, MERSKI, MILLARD, B. MILLER, MOUL, NEILSON,
OBERLANDER, PICKETT, READSHAW, RYAN, SAMUELSON, SAPPEY,
SCHLOSSBERG, SCHMITT, SCHROEDER, SCHWEYER, SONNEY, STAATS,
TOEPEL, WARREN, POLINCHOCK, DONATUCCI, RADER, MALAGARI AND
QUINN, NOVEMBER 22, 2019
AS AMENDED, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, JANUARY 21, 2020
A RESOLUTION
Recognizing the month of January 2020 as "National Human
Trafficking Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
WHEREAS, Human trafficking endangers the lives of millions of
people around the world through domestic and transnational
trafficking networks; and
WHEREAS, Human trafficking is a $150 billion global industry
that is one of the fastest growing criminal activities in the
world; and
WHEREAS, Human trafficking takes many forms, including forced
labor, debt bondage, forced commercial sexual exploitation and
involuntary domestic servitude; and
WHEREAS, Victims of human trafficking are men, women and
children of all ages, but disproportionately women and girls;
and
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