On Thursday evening the Public Safety Committee voted to pass the bill, with the measure receiving near-unanimous approval.
Elisa Arcidiacono, the chief of staff for Assembly member and Public Safety Committee vice chairman Tom Lackey, told CNA that following the bill’s initial failure, assembly Republicans spearheaded a procedural motion “to pull the bill from the Public Safety Committee and bring it to the Assembly floor for a vote by the full body.”
“Rather than approving this motion, Assembly Democrats introduced their own motion to instead hold an emergency Public Safety Committee hearing following the floor session,” Arcidiacono said. “That motion was passed with 43 votes and several abstentions.”
“The bill was then taken up in an emergency hearing [Thursday] morning in the Assembly Public Safety Committee,” she said. “There was no discussion or debate on the bill; it was vote-only.”
The measure subsequently passed the committee with six members voting in favor and two Democratic members abstaining. “The bill will now move to the Assembly Appropriations Committee and then to the floor,” Arcidiacono said.
Following the passage of the bill, state Sen. Shannon Grove — SB14’s original sponsor — said in a statement that the vote represented “a victory for every survivor” of trafficking.
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