New Jersey A 983: Requires public high schools to display public awareness sign on human trafficking.

Bill Text

A983 

ASSEMBLY, No. 983 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman CAROL A. MURPHY

District 7 (Burlington)

Assemblywoman VERLINA REYNOLDS-JACKSON

District 15 (Hunterdon and Mercer)

SYNOPSIS

���� Requires public high schools to display public 
awareness sign on human trafficking.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT 

���� Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative 
Counsel.

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An Act concerning the posting of information on human 
trafficking and supplementing chapter 36 of Title 18A of the New Jersey 
Statutes.

���� Be It 
Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of 
the State of New Jersey:

���� 1.��� A public school 
enrolling students in grades nine through 12 shall display the public awareness 
sign on human trafficking developed pursuant to section 1 of P.L.2013, c.51 
(C.52:17B-237) and section 2 of P.L.2021, c.3 (C.52:17B-237.1) in a place that 
is clearly visible to employees, students, and the parents or guardians of 
enrolled students.

���� 2.��� This act shall take 
effect immediately.

STATEMENT

���� This bill requires public 
schools enrolling students in grades nine through 12 to display certain 
information on human trafficking.

���� Under current law, the 
Commission on Human Trafficking is required to develop language for a public 
awareness sign that contains the national, 24-hour toll-free hotline telephone 
service on human trafficking.� The sign is to be no smaller than eight and one-half 
inches by eleven inches in size, printed in 16-point font, in English and 
Spanish.� Certain entities are required, to the extent practicable, to display 
the public awareness sign.

���� Under this bill, a public 
school that enrolls students in grades nine through 12 is required to display 
the public awareness sign developed by the Commission on Human Trafficking in a 
place that is clearly visible to employees, students, and the parents or 
guardians of enrolled students.