Maryland legislation · 2025 Regular Session
Maryland HB1: Department of Transportation - Human Trafficking Awareness, Training, and Response (See Someone, Save Someone Act)
Status: Chaptered, May 13, 2025
Requiring the Maryland Department of Transportation to develop or identify and implement a training program for transportation sector employees on the identification and reporting of suspected human trafficking victims; requiring transportation sector employers to certify by January 1, 2027, and each year thereafter that certain employees have completed the training program; requiring new employees to receive training within 90 days of hiring; removing civil and criminal liability for reporting of suspected trafficking; etc.
What the bill says
An act concerning Department of Transportation - Human Trafficking Awareness, Training, and Response (See Someone, Save Someone Act) FOR the purpose of requiring the Maryland Department of Transportation to develop or identify and implement a certain training program for certain transportation-sector employees on the identification and reporting of suspected human trafficking victims; requiring certain transportation sector employers to certify that certain employees have completed the training program…
From the enrolled text, May 15, 2025:
AN ACT concerning Department of Transportation - Human Trafficking Awareness, Training, and Response (See Someone, Save Someone Act) FOR the purpose of requiring the Maryland Department of Transportation to develop or identify and implement a certain training program for certain transportation-sector employees on the identification and reporting of suspected human trafficking victims; requiring certain transportation sector employers to certify that certain employees have completed the training program; requiring certain transportation sector employers to establish procedures for reporting suspected human trafficking to certain entities and to implement a certain human trafficking prevention policy; prohibiting certain employers or employees from being held civilly or criminally liable for reporting or responding to in good faith a suspected incident of human trafficking; requiring the Department to require frequent public service announcements with safety information for trafficking victims at certain locations; and generally relating to human trafficking awareness, training, and response. BY adding to Article - Transportation Section 2-114 Annotated Code of Maryland (2020 Replacement Volume and 2024 Supplement) SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows: Article - Transportation 2-114. (A) IN THIS SECTION, "TRANSIT SERVICE" AND "TRANSIT STATION" HAVE THE MEANINGS STATED IN § 7-101 OF THIS ARTICLE. (B) THIS SECTION APPLIES ONLY TO: (1) AN EMPLOYEE WHO IS: (I) A STATE …