Bill Text: NY A07818 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Promotes the education of the human trafficking information and referral hotline to assist persons in freeing themselves from severe acts or forms of sex trafficking.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2022-07-20 - signed chap.387 [A07818 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A07818-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7818--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 25, 2021
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. CRUZ -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Economic Development -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the alcoholic  beverage  control  law,  in  relation  to
          promoting  the  education  of  the  human  trafficking information and
          referral hotlines to assist individuals from becoming or freeing them-
          selves from any act of severe forms of sex trafficking

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

     1    Section 1. Legislative findings. For the past several years, the toll-
     2  free telephone number of the National Human Trafficking hotline has been
     3  posted  on  a  New  York  state agency website and those locations where
     4  victims may be present, including adult or sexually-oriented businesses,
     5  have been encouraged to voluntarily  display  information  posters.  The
     6  Hotline's 2019 data report shows that bars and strip clubs remain one of
     7  the  top three locations where sex and labor trafficking occurs. Most of
     8  these trafficking victims are young women, the majority of  whom  arrive
     9  from  other  countries.  In order to combat this scourge, numerous other
    10  states have now made it a requirement for alcoholic  beverage  licensees
    11  that operate sexually-oriented establishments to post information on how
    12  to  call,  text or otherwise contact the hotline. This bill will enhance
    13  New York state's efforts to fight sex and labor trafficking.
    14    § 2. The alcoholic beverage control law is amended  by  adding  a  new
    15  section 65-e to read as follows:
    16    §  65-e.  Posting  of  signs  relating  to human trafficking.   1. The
    17  authority shall require any person with  a  license  to  sell  alcoholic
    18  beverages  for  consumption  on  the premises who indicated, pursuant to
    19  paragraph (f) of subdivision one of section  one  hundred  ten  of  this
    20  chapter,  that  topless  entertainment  and/or  exotic  dancing, whether
    21  topless or otherwise, including but not limited to, pole dancing and lap
    22  dancing, would occur at the establishment, to display one or more  signs

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06819-06-1
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     1  or posters designated by the authority. Any sign or poster so designated
     2  shall meet the following specifications:
     3    (a) Each sign or poster shall include information on human trafficking
     4  and  the  toll  free  telephone number of the National Human Trafficking
     5  hotline. The authority shall make any designated sign or  poster  avail-
     6  able  for  download from its website or from one or more links posted on
     7  its website or on the website of the office of temporary and  disability
     8  assistance  as  provided  in section four hundred eighty-three-ff of the
     9  social services law.
    10    (b) (i) Any sign or poster must be at least eight and one-half  inches
    11  wide and eleven inches high.
    12    (ii) If the National Human Trafficking hotline toll free number chang-
    13  es,  the  authority  shall  notify  each licensee that is subject to the
    14  posting requirement of this section of the change and shall require  the
    15  display  of  one  or more signs or posters with the new toll free number
    16  within thirty days of such notification.
    17    (iii) At a minimum, the licensee shall be required to display a bilin-
    18  gual version of the sign or poster in English and Spanish or to  display
    19  one  sign  or  poster  in  English and one sign or poster in Spanish.  A
    20  licensee may be required to display signs or posters in other  languages
    21  as determined by the authority.
    22    (c) Any person with a license to sell alcoholic beverages for consump-
    23  tion  on the premises that is subject to the posting requirement of this
    24  section shall display, in an upright position and in a conspicuous place
    25  where it can be easily read by clientele and employees of the establish-
    26  ment, any sign or poster required by the authority.
    27    2. Any person who violates the provisions of  this  section  shall  be
    28  subject  to  a civil penalty, not to exceed one hundred dollars for each
    29  day of violation.
    30    § 3. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
    31  have become a law.