Bill Text: NY A07818 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Promotes the education of the human trafficking information and referral hotline to assist persons in freeing themselves from severe acts or forms of sex trafficking.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2022-07-20 - signed chap.387 [A07818 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A07818-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7818--B

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 25, 2021
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. CRUZ -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Economic Development -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee --  recommitted
          to  the  Committee on Economic Development in accordance with Assembly
          Rule  3,  sec.  2  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  alcoholic  beverage control law, in relation to
          promoting the education  of  the  human  trafficking  information  and
          referral hotlines to assist individuals from becoming or freeing them-
          selves from any act of severe forms of sex trafficking

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

     1    Section 1. Legislative findings. For the past several years, the toll-
     2  free telephone number of the National Human Trafficking hotline has been
     3  posted on a New York state agency  website  and  those  locations  where
     4  victims may be present, including adult or sexually-oriented businesses,
     5  have  been  encouraged  to  voluntarily display information posters. The
     6  Hotline's 2019 data report shows that bars and strip clubs remain one of
     7  the top three locations where sex and labor trafficking occurs. Most  of
     8  these  trafficking  victims are young women, the majority of whom arrive
     9  from other countries. In order to combat this  scourge,  numerous  other
    10  states  have  now made it a requirement for alcoholic beverage licensees
    11  that operate sexually-oriented establishments to post information on how
    12  to call, text or otherwise contact the hotline. This bill  will  enhance
    13  New York state's efforts to fight sex and labor trafficking.
    14    §  2.  The  alcoholic  beverage control law is amended by adding a new
    15  section 65-e to read as follows:
    16    § 65-e. Posting of signs  relating  to  human  trafficking.    1.  The
    17  authority  shall  require  any  person  with a license to sell alcoholic
    18  beverages for consumption on the premises  who  indicated,  pursuant  to
    19  paragraph  (f)  of  subdivision  one  of section one hundred ten of this

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  chapter, that  topless  entertainment  and/or  exotic  dancing,  whether
     2  topless or otherwise, including but not limited to, pole dancing and lap
     3  dancing,  would occur at the establishment, to display one or more signs
     4  or posters designated by the authority. Any sign or poster so designated
     5  shall meet the following specifications:
     6    (a) Each sign or poster shall include information on human trafficking
     7  and  the  toll  free  telephone number of the National Human Trafficking
     8  hotline. The authority shall make any designated sign or  poster  avail-
     9  able  for  download from its website or from one or more links posted on
    10  its website or on the website of the office of temporary and  disability
    11  assistance  as  provided  in section four hundred eighty-three-ff of the
    12  social services law.
    13    (b) (i) Any sign or poster must be at least eight and one-half  inches
    14  wide and eleven inches high.
    15    (ii) If the National Human Trafficking hotline toll free number chang-
    16  es,  the  authority  shall  notify  each licensee that is subject to the
    17  posting requirement of this section of the change and shall require  the
    18  display  of  one  or more signs or posters with the new toll free number
    19  within thirty days of such notification.
    20    (iii) At a minimum, the licensee shall be required to display a bilin-
    21  gual version of the sign or poster in English and Spanish or to  display
    22  one  sign  or  poster  in  English and one sign or poster in Spanish.  A
    23  licensee may be required to display signs or posters in other  languages
    24  as determined by the authority.
    25    (c) Any person with a license to sell alcoholic beverages for consump-
    26  tion  on the premises that is subject to the posting requirement of this
    27  section shall display, in an upright position and in a conspicuous place
    28  where it can be easily read by clientele and employees of the establish-
    29  ment, any sign or poster required by the authority.
    30    2. Any person with a license to sell alcoholic beverages for  consump-
    31  tion  on the premises that is subject to the posting requirement of this
    32  section who violates the provisions of this section shall be subject  to
    33  a  civil  penalty,  not  to  exceed  one hundred dollars for each day of
    34  violation.
    35    § 3. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
    36  have become a law.