Bill Text: NJ A3095 | 2022-2023 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Requires transportation network company drivers to complete anti-human trafficking training course.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-08 - Received in the Senate without Reference, 2nd Reading [A3095 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2022-A3095-Amended.html
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman STERLEY S. STANLEY
District 18 (Middlesex)
Assemblywoman SADAF F. JAFFER
District 16 (Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex and Somerset)
Assemblyman DANIEL R. BENSON
District 14 (Mercer and Middlesex)
Co-Sponsored by:
Assemblywomen Haider, McKnight and Timberlake
SYNOPSIS
Requires transportation network company drivers to complete anti-human trafficking training course.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As reported by the Assembly Homeland Security and State Preparedness Committee on March 16, 2023, with amendments.
An Act concerning educational training for transportation network company drivers and amending P.L.2017, c.26.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. Section 16 of P.L.2017, c.26 (C.39:5H-16) is amended to read as follows:
16. A transportation network company shall require an applicant, as defined in section 2 of P.L.2017, c.26 (C.39:5H-2), to submit a transportation network company driver application to the transportation network company. The application shall include the applicant's address, age, and social security number, a copy of the applicant's driver's license, motor vehicle registration, and automobile liability insurance, and any other information required by the transportation network company.
Prior to approval of an applicant, a transportation network company shall 1[require] provide1 an applicant 1[to participate in an educational] with an anti-human trafficking1 training course approved by the Attorney General 1[on the dangers, harms, and warning signs of human trafficking] and require the applicant to complete the course. The training course may be provided via web based video or digital format and shall include: an overview of human trafficking, including how human trafficking is defined; guidance on the role transportation network company drivers play in reporting and responding to human trafficking; and information on how to report suspected human trafficking1.
(cf: P.L.2017, c.26, s.16)
2. Within 90 days of the effective date of this act, each transportation network company 1[driver]1 shall 1[participate in an educational] provide each transportation network company driver with an anti-human trafficking1 training course approved by the Attorney General 1[on the dangers, harms, and warning signs of human trafficking] and require the applicant to complete the course. The training course may be provided via web based video or digital format and shall include: an overview of human trafficking, including how human trafficking is defined; guidance on the role transportation network company drivers play in reporting and responding to human trafficking; and information on how to report suspected human trafficking1. Upon completion of 1[the educational] an anti-human trafficking1 training course, the driver shall 1[provide a certification that the educational training has been completed] certify1 to any transportation network company whose digital network the driver uses 1that the driver completed an anti-human trafficking training course approved by the Attorney General1. If a driver fails to 1[complete the training course and]1 provide a transportation network company with the certification required pursuant to this section, the transportation network company shall prohibit the driver from utilizing its digital network to provide rides 1[unless] until1 the driver submits 1[a new application to the transportation network company to be a driver and the application is approved] the certification required pursuant to this section1.
On the 91st day following the effective date of this act, each transportation network company shall create a list of drivers who did not 1[complete] provide1 the certification required pursuant to this section by the required date. Completion of the 1[certification] anti-human trafficking training course1, or failure to 1[do so] complete the course1, shall be noted in the individual record of each transportation network company driver required to be maintained pursuant to section 25 of P.L.2017, c.26 (C.39:5H-25).
3. This act shall take effect on the 60th day following enactment, except that the Attorney General shall take such administrative action as may be necessary in advance of that date to ensure the timely implementation of this act.
