STATE OF NEW YORK
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7905--A
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
April 11, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. GONZALEZ-ROJAS, MAHER -- read once and referred
to the Committee on Social Services -- recommitted to the Committee on
Social Services in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- commit-
tee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recom-
mitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to the composition
of the interagency task force on human trafficking
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivisions (a) and (c) of section 483-ee of the social
2 services law, subdivision (a) as amended by chapter 498 of the laws of
3 2025 and subdivision (c) as amended by chapter 413 of the laws of 2016,
4 are amended to read as follows:
5 (a) There is established an interagency task force on trafficking in
6 persons, which shall consist of the following members or their desig-
7 nees: (1) the commissioner of the division of criminal justice services;
8 (2) the commissioner of the office of temporary and disability assist-
9 ance; (3) the commissioner of health; (4) the commissioner of the office
10 of mental health; (5) the commissioner of labor; (6) the commissioner of
11 the office of children and family services; (7) the commissioner of the
12 office of addiction services and supports; (8) the director of the
13 office of victim services; (9) the executive director of the office for
14 the prevention of domestic violence; (10) the superintendent of the
15 division of state police; (11) the secretary of state; (12) the commis-
16 sioner of the department of transportation; (13) the commissioner of the
17 department of motor vehicles; (14) the executive director of the New
18 York state thruway authority; (15) the commissioner of education and the
19 following additional members, who shall be promptly appointed by the
20 governor, each for a term of two years, provided that such person's
21 membership shall continue after such two year term until a successor is
22 appointed and provided, further, that a member may be reappointed if
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 again recommended in the manner specified in this subdivision: [(15)]
2 (16) two members, who shall be appointed on the recommendation of the
3 temporary president of the senate; [(16)] (17) two members, who shall be
4 appointed on the recommendation of the speaker of the assembly; (18) two
5 members, who shall be appointed on the recommendation of the minority
6 leader of the assembly; (19) two members, who shall be appointed on the
7 recommendation of the minority leader of the senate; [(17)] (20) two
8 members, who shall be appointed on the recommendation of the not-for-
9 profit organization in New York state that receives the largest share of
10 funds, appropriated by and through the state budget, for providing
11 services to victims of human trafficking, as shall be identified annual-
12 ly in writing by the director of the budget; (21) one member, who has
13 been identified as a survivor of human trafficking by the office of
14 temporary and disability assistance and division of criminal justice
15 services; and [(18)] (22) one member, who shall be appointed on the
16 recommendation of the president of the New York state bar association;
17 and others as may be necessary to carry out the duties and responsibil-
18 ities under this section. The task force will be co-chaired by the
19 commissioners of the division of criminal justice services and the
20 office of temporary and disability assistance, or their designees. It
21 shall meet as often as is necessary, but no less than three times per
22 year, with at least two meetings being open for public viewing and
23 participation, and under circumstances as are appropriate to fulfilling
24 its duties under this section. The task force shall be deemed a public
25 body for the purpose of article seven of the public officers law, and
26 meetings shall be subject to open meetings requirements of such article.
27 All members shall be provided with written notice reasonably in advance
28 of each meeting with date, time and location of such meeting. Further,
29 it shall post meeting agendas and meeting minutes on the task force's
30 dedicated webpage on the office of temporary and disability assistance
31 website.
32 (c) The task force shall provide a report on its activities and
33 efforts from the immediately preceding year to the governor, the speaker
34 of the assembly, the minority leader of the assembly, the temporary
35 president of the senate and the minority leader of the senate [no less
36 than annually] by no later than March first, two thousand twenty-seven,
37 and annually thereafter, and it shall additionally issue such reports
38 and recommendations as it deems necessary to carry out its duties and
39 responsibilities.
40 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
41 the amendments to subdivisions (a) and (c) of section 483-ee of the
42 social services law made by section one of this act shall not affect the
43 repeal of such section and shall be deemed to be repealed therewith.
