Bill Text: NY S08535 | 2017-2018 | 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 (Republican 7-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-20 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S08535 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S08535-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8535
                    IN SENATE
                                       May 9, 2018
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  SERINO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed 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. The commis-
     4  sioner, in conjunction with the commissioner of the division of criminal
     5  justice  services and the commissioner of transportation, shall  develop
     6  a  sex trafficking prevention program. The sex trafficking awareness and
     7  prevention program shall be established for  the  purpose  of  providing
     8  education  and  awareness  for the prevention of sex trafficking in this
     9  state. Within amounts appropriated, the program shall provide  education
    10  and awareness literature and educational materials to all drivers with a
    11  commercial  motor  vehicle  license  as  defined in section five hundred
    12  one-a of this chapter. The materials shall include, but not  be  limited
    13  to,  warning  signs  of potential sex trafficking and entities to whom a
    14  driver may report suspected activity that might constitute sex traffick-
    15  ing.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15607-01-8