New Jersey legislation · 2026-2027 Regular Session
New Jersey A5580: Human Trafficking Comm-study human trafficking & illicit massage parlor business
Status: Introduced, October 22, 2026
Expands duty of Commission on Human Trafficking to include studying connection between human trafficking and illicit massage parlor businesses.
What the bill says
An Act concerning human trafficking and amending and supplementing P.L.2013, c.51.
From the introduced text, October 5, 2026:
An Act concerning human trafficking and amending and supplementing P.L.2013, c.51. Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey: 1. (New section) The Legislature finds and declares that: a. The Polaris Project issued a report in 2018 entitled Human Trafficking in Illicit Massage Businesses. b. Information for the report was gathered from various sources including published reports, law enforcement, interviews with victims and cases reported to the National Human Trafficking Hotline; c. New Jersey has proximity to New York and the I-95 corridor which runs along the Eastern Seaboard and may be a thoroughfare for moving trafficking victims; d. Press reports indicate the Polaris Project has identified allegedly illegal massage parlors offering sexual services in this State; e. New Jersey has an existing commission known as the Commission on Human Trafficking which is created in the Division of Criminal Justice in the Department of Law and Public Safety; f. It is fitting and appropriate to charge this body with further study on this issue within New Jersey. 2. Section 1 of P.L. 2013, c.51 (C.52:17B-237) is amended to read as follows: 1. a. There is hereby created, in the Division of Criminal Justice in the Department of Law and Public Safety, a commission to be known as the Commission on Human Trafficking, consisting …
Sponsors
- Maureen Rowan (D, 2) · primary sponsor
- Sterley S. Stanley (D, 18) · primary sponsor
- Dawn Fantasia (R, 24)
- Gregory E. Myhre (R, 9)
- Roy Freiman (D, 16)
- Shanique Speight (D, 29)
Latest actions
- : REP 2RA
- : RCM AAP
- : REP 2RA
- : INT 1RA REF AJU
Votes
- Assembly Appropriations Committee: Reported favorably (October 22, 2026): 13 yea, 0 nay, passed
- Assembly Judiciary Committee: Reported favorably (October 15, 2026): 6 yea, 0 nay, passed
Subjects: COMMISSIONS, CRIMINAL PROCEDURES, CRIMES AND PENALTIES
Common questions
- What is A5580?
- A5580 is a bill in the New Jersey Legislature (2026-2027 Regular Session): Human Trafficking Comm-study human trafficking & illicit massage parlor business.
- What does A5580 do?
- In its own words: An Act concerning human trafficking and amending and supplementing P.L.2013, c.51.
- What is the status of A5580?
- Introduced as of October 22, 2026. Latest action: REP 2RA (October 22, 2026).
- Who sponsored A5580?
- Maureen Rowan (D, 2), with 5 co-sponsors.
- Where is the official record for A5580?
- On the New Jersey Legislature website: https://www.njleg.state.nj.us/bill-search/2026/A5580
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