Bill Text: NY A03790 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires information on resources for domestic violence and human trafficking victims to be posted in public restrooms and other areas of public buildings which shall be deemed appropriate.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-04-26 - held for consideration in governmental operations [A03790 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A03790-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          3790

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 28, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. NORRIS -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Governmental Operations

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  public  buildings law, in relation to requiring
          information on resources for domestic violence and  human  trafficking
          victims to be posted in public restrooms

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The public buildings law is amended by adding a new section
     2  146 to read as follows:
     3    § 146. Display of resources for domestic violence and human  traffick-
     4  ing victims. 1.  As used in this section:
     5    (a)  "covered public building" shall have the same meaning as provided
     6  in section one hundred forty-four of this article;
     7    (b) "office" shall mean the office  for  the  prevention  of  domestic
     8  violence; and
     9    (c)  "task force" shall mean the New York state interagency task force
    10  on human trafficking.
    11    2. The office, in collaboration with the task force, shall create  and
    12  publish  a poster containing information which shall include, but not be
    13  limited to, contact information for the New York state police, the divi-
    14  sion of criminal justice services, and the  national  human  trafficking
    15  hotline,  the  domestic  violence hotline telephone number maintained by
    16  the office, and any other information the office and  task  force  shall
    17  deem  appropriate to assist victims of domestic violence and human traf-
    18  ficking. Such information shall be printed in English and in  any  other
    19  languages deemed appropriate by the office and task force.
    20    3. A covered public building shall display the poster created pursuant
    21  to  subdivision  two  of this section in plain view and in a conspicuous
    22  place and manner in  all  public  restrooms,  and  in  any  other  areas
    23  directed by the office and task force.
    24    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    25  have become a law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01786-01-1