SECTION 19.   Chapter 272 of the General Laws is hereby amended by adding after section

 53B the following section, which shall be titled “Interagency committee to study

 decriminalizing sex work”:-

 Section 53C. (a) There shall be an interagency committee to be convened by the Executive

 Office of Health and Human Services within 90 days from the date of the enactment of this

 provision to study decriminalizing sex work. The committee shall consist of: (i) the

 secretary of the Executive Office of Health and Human Services or the secretary’s

 designee; (ii) a representative of the Department of Public Health; (iii) a representative of

 the Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development; (iv) a representative of the

 Department of Housing and Community Development; (v) a representative of the

 Department of Children and Families; (vii) a representative from an organization focused on

 advocacy for sex workers; (viii) a representative from an organization focused on

 advocating for transgender people and racial justice; (ix) a survivor or direct service

 provider from an organization representing survivors of human trafficking in the

 commercial sex sector; (x) representative from the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center; (xi) a

 representative from the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts; (xii) a

 representative from an organization focused on harm reduction related to substance

 use;(xiii) a representative from an organization focused on advocating for legal defense and

 bonds for undocumented people; (xiv) a representative from the Committee for Public

 Counsel Services; and (xv) at least three current or former sex workers. The members of the

 committee shall be appointed by the secretary of the Executive Office of Health and

 Human Services or the secretary’s designee unless otherwise stated. Two co-chairs shall

 be appointed by majority vote of commission members. Adequate compensation for

 services shall be determined by a schedule of fees adopted by the committee. 

 The committee shall be responsible for studying and making recommendations towards

 the following: (i) what criminal penalties and collateral consequences exist related to the

 criminalization of sex work, (ii) what labor protections need to be in place under

 decriminalization, (iii) what services need to be made available to people engaged in

 commercial sex to improve health and safety outcomes, (iv) identify the methods of human

 trafficking and exploitation in order to develop strategies to reduce these activities in

 collaboration with sex workers, with a focus on prevention, (v) implementation models for

 alternatives to policing to promote safety in the commercial sex sector, rooted in public

 health, and (vi) the development of a fund to prevent, reduce, prevent, and eliminate

 human trafficking that shall include ways to support the health, safety, and autonomy of

 sex workers.