HR 386 — A Resolution recognizing the month of January 2026 as "Human Trafficking Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.

PRINTER'S NO.    2743

                  THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA



           HOUSE RESOLUTION
              No. 386
                                              Session of
                                                2026

     INTRODUCED BY YOUNG, BURGOS, CONKLIN, GREINER, WAXMAN, SAPPEY,
        McNEILL, GUZMAN, OWLETT, HILL-EVANS, KUTZ, DONAHUE,
        HOHENSTEIN, PICKETT, SAMUELSON, ISAACSON, SANCHEZ,
        M. MACKENZIE, RIVERA, ANDERSON, BRENNAN, FREEMAN, JAMES AND
        NEILSON, JANUARY 8, 2026

     REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, JANUARY 8, 2026


                               A RESOLUTION
 1   Recognizing the month of January 2026 as "Human Trafficking
 2      Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
 3      WHEREAS, Human trafficking is a crime involving the coercion
 4   and exploitation of a person for labor, services or commercial
 5   sex; and
 6      WHEREAS, The Federal Trafficking Victims Protection Act of
 7   2000 recognizes and defines the two primary forms of human
 8   trafficking as sex trafficking and forced labor; and
 9      WHEREAS, According to the National Institute of Justice, sex
10   trafficking is defined as the recruitment, harboring,
11   transportation, provision, obtaining, patronizing or soliciting
12   of a person for the purpose of a commercial sex act in which the
13   commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud or coercion, or in
14   which the person induced to perform the act has not attained 18
15   years of age; and
16      WHEREAS, Forced labor is defined as the recruitment,
 1   harboring, transportation, provision or obtaining of a person
 2   for labor or services through the use of force, fraud or
 3   coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude,
 4   peonage, debt bondage or slavery; and
 5         WHEREAS, An estimated 27.6 million people, including adults
 6   and children, are subjected to human trafficking around the
 7   world, including in the United States; and
 8         WHEREAS, The United Nations' International Labour
 9   Organization estimates that 77% of all worldwide victims are
10   trafficked for forced labor and 23% of all victims are
11   trafficked for sex; and
12         WHEREAS, Worldwide, it is estimated that 78% of sex
13   trafficking victims are women and girls and 22% are men and
14   boys; and
15         WHEREAS, Worldwide, it is estimated that 33% of forced labor
16   victims are women and girls and 67% are men and boys; and
17         WHEREAS, Victims of human trafficking suffer physically,
18   mentally and financially as a result of their ordeal; and
19         WHEREAS, Human trafficking is an affront to the conscience of
20   our nation and our Commonwealth; and
21         WHEREAS, Human trafficking robs persons of their dignity and
22   freedom and enriches criminal elements at the victims' expense;
23   and
24         WHEREAS, It is the collective responsibility of every person
25   in this Commonwealth to recognize, report and prevent this most
26   heinous crime; and
27         WHEREAS, Since 2010, each President of the United States has
28   dedicated the month of January as "Human Trafficking Prevention
29   Month" to raise awareness about human trafficking and to educate
30   the public on identification and prevention; therefore be it

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1      RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives recognize the
2   month of January 2026 as "Human Trafficking Awareness Month" in
3   Pennsylvania.




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