Directs the division of criminal justice services, in consultation with the office of temporary and disability assistance, to establish a universal, statewide human trafficking hotline to provide individuals in the state access to appropriate counselling and services for human trafficking victims.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6505
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 17, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to directing the division
of criminal justice services to establish a universal, statewide human
trafficking hotline
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 837-y
2 to read as follows:
3 § 837-y. Statewide human trafficking hotline. The division, in consul-
4 tation with the office of temporary and disability assistance, shall
5 establish a toll free confidential hotline to provide individuals in the
6 state access to appropriate counselling and services for human traffick-
7 ing victims. The division shall operate this hotline twenty-four hours a
8 day, seven days a week, and disseminate information about this hotline
9 in order to ensure public knowledge of the hotline, including by working
10 with the office of temporary and disability assistance to ensure that
11 information on the hotline is included as an additional resource in any
12 materials and on any posters which reference the National Human Traf-
13 ficking Resource Center Hotline.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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