Not trolling or being a bad HN citizen but: Why did this take so long? There are already laws on the books. New legislation (read: added time) isn't necessary

Not trolling or being a bad HN citizen but: Why did this take so long? There are already laws on the books. New legislation (read: added time) isn't necessary. Everyone suffers from this problem. No one, sans the violators, is in favor of this problem. That is, it's a political win regardless of party, state, etc. Yet after years of pin-prick torture there's going to be a task force? I'm confused.