Relates to employee human trafficking recognition training and to authorizing the establishment of a standardized human trafficking recognition training program; requires public transportation services to require all employees to undergo a human-trafficking recognition training program established by the division of criminal justice services and the office of temporary and disability assistance in consultation with the department of transportation and the New York state interagency task force on human trafficking.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7725
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 11, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. HUNTER -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the transportation law, in relation to employee human
trafficking recognition training; and relating to authorizing the
establishment of a standardized human trafficking recognition training
program
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 15-d to read as follows:
3 § 15-d. Human-trafficking recognition training. Any public transporta-
4 tion service, including, but not limited to, rail passenger service,
5 motorbus regular route service, paratransit service, motorbus charter
6 service, and ferry passenger service, shall require all employees to
7 undergo a human-trafficking recognition training program established by
8 the division of criminal justice services and the office of temporary
9 and disability assistance in consultation with the department and the
10 New York state interagency task force on human trafficking.
11 § 2. In consultation with the New York Interagency Task Force on Human
12 Trafficking and the commissioner of transportation, the commissioner of
13 the division of criminal justice services and the commissioner of the
14 office of temporary and disability assistance shall together establish a
15 standardized human-trafficking recognition training program for employ-
16 ees of public transportation services. The commissioners may use feder-
17 al, state, and non-profit organization sources provided that such train-
18 ing program shall address no less than the following issues:
19 (a) The nature of human trafficking;
20 (b) How human trafficking is defined in law;
21 (c) How to identify victims of human trafficking;
22 (d) Relief and recovery options for survivors; and
23 (e) Social and legal services available to victims.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 The commissioner of the division of criminal justice services and the
2 commissioner of the office of temporary and disability assistance shall
3 complete the human-trafficking recognition training program and make it
4 available for use no more than six months after the effective date of
5 this act.
6 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
