Directs commercial air carrier airports to identify and maintain a record of each child under 18 who arrives unaccompanied by an adult; such information shall be reported to the civil rights bureau of the department of law on a monthly basis; directs the attorney general, office of children and family services and local child protective services to establish procedures to ensure that children do not fall into the hands of human traffickers.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7642
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
April 17, 2009
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Introduced by M. of A. P. RIVERA, N. RIVERA, ROBINSON, EDDINGTON,
JAFFEE, LIFTON, HYER-SPENCER, MILLMAN, CLARK, BENEDETTO, COOK, MAYER-
SOHN, HOOPER, MAISEL, REILLY, LANCMAN, WEISENBERG, PERRY, SPANO, KOON,
J. RIVERA, TOWNSEND, CALHOUN, CARROZZA, FIELDS, FINCH, ESPAILLAT --
Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ARROYO, CHRISTENSEN, COLTON, CROUCH,
DIAZ, ERRIGO, GABRYSZAK, GALEF, GIGLIO, HIKIND, V. LOPEZ, LUPARDO,
MAGEE, MARKEY, McKEVITT, ORTIZ, PERALTA, PHEFFER, POWELL, RAMOS, SALA-
DINO, SEMINERIO, STIRPE, TOWNS -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the transportation law and the executive law, in
relation to requiring airports with commercial air carrier service to
identify and report on children arriving unaccompanied by an adult
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The transportation law is amended by adding a new section
2 14-n to read as follows:
3 § 14-n. Minors unaccompanied by an adult at an airport. 1. Every
4 airport in this state having commercial air carrier service shall,
5 subject to the rules and regulations of the attorney general, identify
6 and maintain a record of each child, under the age of eighteen years,
7 arriving at such airport aboard a commercial air carrier and unaccompa-
8 nied by an adult who is twenty-one years of age or older. Furthermore,
9 each such airport shall determine the name and address of the person who
10 will take custody of any such minor when he or she arrives at his or her
11 airport of destination.
12 2. Each airport, which is subject to the provisions of subdivision one
13 of this section, shall report all information compiled pursuant to such
14 subdivision to the civil rights bureau of the department of law on a
15 monthly basis, subject to the rules and regulations of the attorney
16 general.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 § 2. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 75 to read
2 as follows:
3 § 75. Airports: unaccompanied children. 1. The attorney-general, in
4 consultation and cooperation with the office of children and family
5 services, shall promulgate rules and regulations requiring every airport
6 in this state having commercial air carrier service to identify, main-
7 tain a record of and report on each child, under the age of eighteen
8 years, arriving at such airport aboard a commercial air carrier and
9 unaccompanied by an adult who is twenty-one years of age or older. Such
10 rules and regulations shall require each such airport to determine the
11 name and address of the person who will take custody of any such minor
12 when he or she arrives at his or her airport of destination.
13 2. The attorney-general shall promulgate such rules and regulations,
14 as he or she shall deem necessary, requiring airports to report all
15 information compiled pursuant to subdivision one of this section to the
16 civil rights bureau of the department of law on a monthly basis. The
17 department of law and the office of children and family services shall
18 jointly examine and evaluate such information to determine and recommend
19 any regulatory or statutory changes necessary to prevent the human traf-
20 ficking of children.
21 3. The attorney-general, office of children and family services and
22 the appropriate local child protective services shall jointly establish
23 and implement any rules, regulations and procedures they deem necessary
24 to ensure unaccompanied minors do not fall into the hands of human traf-
25 fickers.
26 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
27 it shall have become a law. Provided, that any rules and regulations
28 necessary to implement the provisions of this act on its effective date
29 are authorized and directed to be completed on or before such date.
