STATE OF NEW YORK
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8874
IN SENATE
May 31, 2018
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Introduced by Sen. LANZA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Consumer Protection
AN ACT to amend the general business 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 general business law is amended by adding a new section
2 206-f to read as follows:
3 § 206-f. Information concerning services for human trafficking
4 victims. 1. For purposes of this section, "lodging facility" shall mean
5 any inn, hotel, motel, motor court or other establishment that provides
6 lodging to transient guests. Such term shall not include an establish-
7 ment treated as a dwelling unit for the purposes of any state or local
8 law or regulation or an establishment located within a building that has
9 five or less rooms for rent or hire and that is actually occupied as a
10 residence by the proprietor of such establishment.
11 2. Every keeper of a lodging facility shall make available in plain
12 view and in a conspicuous place and manner in the public restrooms, and
13 in the individual guest rooms, and near the public entrance or in anoth-
14 er conspicuous location in clear view of the public and the employees
15 where similar information is customarily displayed in such lodging
16 facility, informational cards developed by: (i) the office of temporary
17 and disability assistance in consultation with the New York state inter-
18 agency task force on human trafficking; or (ii) the United States
19 Department of Homeland Security; or (iii) the lodging facility. All
20 informational cards shall only contain information concerning services
21 for human trafficking victims and shall prominently include the national
22 human trafficking hotline telephone number. The office of temporary and
23 disability assistance in consultation with the New York state interagen-
24 cy task force on human trafficking, shall develop a notice which shall
25 include the national human trafficking hotline telephone number, to be
26 made available to lodging facilities to post on a voluntary basis.
27 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
28 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD15495-07-8
