Bill Text: NY S08679 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Provides for information concerning services for human trafficking victims in transit facilities operated by the metropolitan transportation authority.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-05-24 - referred to corporations, authorities and commissions [S08679 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S08679-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8679

                    IN SENATE

                                     March 29, 2022
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation

        AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation  to  information
          concerning services for human trafficking victims

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

     1    Section 1. The public authorities law  is  amended  by  adding  a  new
     2  section 1266-l to read as follows:
     3    §  1266-l.  Information  concerning  services  for  human  trafficking
     4  victims.  1. The authority shall make available in plain view and  in  a
     5  conspicuous  place  and  manner  in  the public restrooms of any transit
     6  facility operated by the authority,  informational  cards  and/or  signs
     7  developed by:
     8    (a)  the office of temporary and disability assistance in consultation
     9  with the New York state interagency task force on human trafficking; or
    10    (b) the United States Department of Homeland Security.
    11    2. All informational cards and signs shall  only  contain  information
    12  concerning  services for human trafficking victims and shall prominently
    13  include the national human trafficking hotline telephone number.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
    15  have become a law.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15241-01-2
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