Bill Text: NY A09348 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Mandates the establishment of a standard uniform anti-trafficking recognition training program and requires employees of hotel and gaming facilities to undergo such program.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-06-12 - REFERRED TO COMMERCE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SMALL BUSINESS [A09348 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A09348-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        9348--A
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    April 16, 2014
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       Introduced  by  M. of A. TITONE, PAULIN -- read once and referred to the
         Committee  on  Economic  Development  --  committee  discharged,  bill
         amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
         tee
       AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to employee  human
         trafficking  recognition  training;  and  relating  to authorizing the
         establishment of a standardized human trafficking recognition training
         program
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
    2  210 to read as follows:
    3    S  210. HUMAN-TRAFFICKING RECOGNITION TRAINING. ANY ESTABLISHMENT THAT
    4  CONSTITUTES A GAMING FACILITY AS DEFINED BY SUBDIVISION TWENTY-THREE  OF
    5  SECTION  THIRTEEN  HUNDRED  ONE  OF THE RACING, PARI-MUTUEL WAGERING AND
    6  BREEDING LAW, SHALL REQUIRE ALL EMPLOYEES TO UNDERGO A HUMAN-TRAFFICKING
    7  RECOGNITION TRAINING PROGRAM ESTABLISHED BY  THE  DIVISION  OF  CRIMINAL
    8  JUSTICE  SERVICES  AND THE OFFICE OF TEMPORARY AND DISABILITY ASSISTANCE
    9  IN CONSULTATION WITH THE NEW YORK STATE INTERAGENCY TASK FORCE ON  HUMAN
   10  TRAFFICKING.    HOWEVER,  FOR CLASS III GAMING ESTABLISHMENTS AUTHORIZED
   11  UNDER THE INDIAN GAMING REGULATORY ACT, 25 U.S.C. S 2701, ET  SEQ.,  THE
   12  GAMING  COMMISSION  SHALL MAKE AVAILABLE, UPON REQUEST, SUCH HUMAN-TRAF-
   13  FICKING RECOGNITION TRAINING PROGRAM.
   14    S 2.  In consultation with the New  York  Interagency  Task  Force  on
   15  Human  Trafficking, the commissioner of the division of criminal justice
   16  services and the commissioner of the office of temporary and  disability
   17  assistance  shall  together  establish  a standardized human-trafficking
   18  recognition training program for employees  of  gaming  facilities.  The
   19  commissioners may use federal, state, and non-profit organization sourc-
   20  es  provided  that  such training program shall address no less than the
   21  following issues:
   22    (a) The nature of human trafficking;
   23    (b) How human trafficking is defined in law;
   24    (c) How to identify victims of human trafficking;
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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    1    (d) Relief and recovery options for survivors; and
    2    (e) Social and legal services available to victims.
    3    The  commissioner of the division of criminal justice services and the
    4  commissioner of the office of temporary and disability assistance  shall
    5  complete  the human-trafficking recognition training program and make it
    6  available for use no more than six months after the  effective  date  of
    7  this act.
    8    S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.