STATE HOUSE — Senators backing a bill that would establish penalties for transferring adopted children into new homes outside of the legal system expect the measure, which they described as a way to protect children from a form of human trafficking, to pass the Senate Thursday.
"What we're saying, and what I want to get through to people is, you are not going to be a part of a possible abuse of a child in any form," Sen. Jennifer Flanagan told reporters Wednesday. "You are not going to be able to hand off someone to someone with a checkered past."
San Francisco voters rejected a proposal to rein in Airbnb and other online rental services that have siphoned business from hotels in major cities around the nation, and the company may use its campaign there to model strategies for other markets where restrictions have been proposed, including Boston.
In part, that strategy cast the issue as one that pitted homeowners against big hotel companies. It also employed volunteer canvassers and drew support from small businesses.
