Bill Text: NY A03039 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the commissioner of DMV to establish a sex trafficking awareness and prevention program to provide education and awareness literature and educational materials to all drivers with a commercial motor vehicle license.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to transportation [A03039 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A03039-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3039

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 2, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. FAHY -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Transportation

        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to establishing
          a sex trafficking awareness and prevention program

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  The  vehicle  and  traffic law is amended by adding a new
     2  section 224-b to read as follows:
     3    § 224-b. Sex trafficking awareness and  prevention  program.  (a)  The
     4  commissioner,  in  conjunction  with the interagency task force on human
     5  trafficking, the  commissioner  of  the  division  of  criminal  justice
     6  services  and  the  commissioner  of transportation, shall develop a sex
     7  trafficking awareness and prevention program. The sex trafficking aware-
     8  ness and prevention program shall be  established  for  the  purpose  of
     9  providing  education and awareness for the prevention of sex trafficking
    10  in this state. Within amounts appropriated, the  program  shall  provide
    11  education  and  awareness  literature  and  educational materials to all
    12  drivers with a commercial motor vehicle license as  defined  in  section
    13  five hundred one-a of this chapter. The materials shall include, but not
    14  be  limited  to, warning signs of potential sex trafficking and entities
    15  to whom a driver may report suspected activity that might constitute sex
    16  trafficking.  The commissioner may coordinate with the interagency  task
    17  force  on human trafficking in providing relevant literature and materi-
    18  als to such drivers.
    19    (b) The commissioner may additionally coordinate with the  interagency
    20  task force on human trafficking: (i) to collect and organize data on the
    21  nature  and extent of trafficking in persons in the state; (ii) to iden-
    22  tify available federal, state and local programs to provide services  to
    23  victims  of  trafficking; (iii) to consult with governmental and non-go-
    24  vernmental organizations in  developing  recommendations  to  strengthen
    25  state  and  local  efforts  to  prevent trafficking; (iv) to measure and

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  evaluate the state's progress in preventing trafficking, and prosecuting
     2  persons engaged in trafficking; and (v) to evaluate the effectiveness of
     3  the sex trafficking awareness and prevention program.
     4    (c) The commissioner shall report annually on the program's effective-
     5  ness in its annual report.
     6    (d)  For  purposes  of  this section, "interagency task force on human
     7  trafficking" shall mean the interagency task force on human  trafficking
     8  established  by  section  four  hundred  eighty-three-ee  of  the social
     9  services law.
    10    (e) To effectuate the purposes of this section, the  commissioner  may
    11  request  and shall receive from any department, division, board, bureau,
    12  commission or other agency of the state or any  state  public  authority
    13  such assistance, information and data as will enable the sex trafficking
    14  awareness  and  prevention  program to properly carry out its powers and
    15  duties.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    17  have  become  a law; provided, however, subdivision (c) of section 224-b
    18  of the vehicle and traffic law, as added by section  one  of  this  act,
    19  shall  take  effect on the one hundred eightieth day after it shall have
    20  become a law. Effective  immediately,  the  addition,  amendment  and/or
    21  repeal  of  any  rule  or regulation necessary for the implementation of
    22  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made  and  completed
    23  on or before such effective date.