Provides for information concerning services for human trafficking victims in transit facilities operated by the metropolitan transportation authority.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5527
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 7, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to information
concerning services for human trafficking victims
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The public authorities law is amended by adding a new
2 section 1266-m to read as follows:
3 § 1266-m. Information concerning services for human trafficking
4 victims. 1. The authority shall make available in plain view and in a
5 conspicuous place and manner in the public restrooms and in any lacta-
6 tion rooms of any transit facility operated by the authority, informa-
7 tional cards and/or signs developed by:
8 (a) the office of temporary and disability assistance in consultation
9 with the New York state interagency task force on human trafficking; or
10 (b) the United States Department of Homeland Security.
11 2. All informational cards and signs shall only contain information
12 concerning services for human trafficking victims and shall prominently
13 include the national human trafficking hotline telephone number.
14 3. For purposes of this section, the term "lactation room" shall mean
15 a hygienic place, other than a restroom, that is intended to be used for
16 the primary purpose of breastfeeding or expressing breast milk.
17 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
18 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05707-01-3
