Directs the commissioner of DMV to establish a sex trafficking awareness and prevention program to provide education and awareness literature and educational materials to all drivers with a commercial motor vehicle license.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5061
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 22, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. HINCHEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to establishing
a sex trafficking awareness and prevention program
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new
2 section 224-b to read as follows:
3 § 224-b. Sex trafficking awareness and prevention program. The commis-
4 sioner, in conjunction with the commissioner of the division of criminal
5 justice services and the commissioner of transportation, shall develop
6 a sex trafficking prevention program. The sex trafficking awareness and
7 prevention program shall be established for the purpose of providing
8 education and awareness for the prevention of sex trafficking in this
9 state. Within amounts appropriated, the program shall provide education
10 and awareness literature and educational materials to all drivers with a
11 commercial motor vehicle license as defined in section five hundred
12 one-a of this chapter. The materials shall include, but not be limited
13 to, warning signs of potential sex trafficking and entities to whom a
14 driver may report suspected activity that might constitute sex traffick-
15 ing.
16 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD09288-01-3
