Bill Text: NY A08178 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Requires employees of gaming facilities to undergo human-trafficking recognition training which shall address the nature of human trafficking, how human trafficking is defined in law, how to identify victims of human trafficking, relief and recovery options for survivors, and social and legal services available to victims.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to economic development [A08178 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A08178-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8178

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      June 6, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. RAYNOR -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Economic Development

        AN  ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to employee human
          trafficking recognition training in gaming facilities

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

     1    Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
     2  210 to read as follows:
     3    §  210.  Human trafficking recognition training.  1. Human trafficking
     4  recognition training program. a.  Any establishment that  constitutes  a
     5  gaming  facility as defined by subdivision twenty-three of section thir-
     6  teen hundred one of the racing, pari-mutuel wagering and  breeding  law,
     7  shall  require  all employees to undergo a human trafficking recognition
     8  training program which shall be established or approved by the  division
     9  of  criminal justice services and the office of temporary and disability
    10  assistance in consultation with the  New  York  state  interagency  task
    11  force  on  human trafficking.   However, for class III gaming establish-
    12  ments authorized under the Indian Gaming Regulatory  Act,  25  U.S.C.  §
    13  2701, et seq., the gaming commission shall make available, upon request,
    14  such human-trafficking recognition training program.
    15    b.  The training program may be developed by a federal, state, or non-
    16  profit organization, and may be  incorporated  as  part  of  the  gaming
    17  facility's  existing  training  programs or may be provided by organiza-
    18  tions or providers identified by the commissioner  of  the  division  of
    19  criminal justice services or the commissioner of the office of temporary
    20  and  disability  assistance, provided that the training includes  all of
    21  the requirements of  this  section.  Established  or  approved  training
    22  programs may be made available through methods including, but not limit-
    23  ed  to,  in-person  instruction,  electronic and video communication, or
    24  online programs.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08210-01-9

        A. 8178                             2

     1    c. Any human trafficking recognition training program  established  or
     2  approved  by the division of criminal justice services and the office of
     3  temporary and disability assistance in consultation with  the  New  York
     4  state  interagency  task  force on human trafficking as required by this
     5  section shall address no less than the following issues:
     6    (i) the nature of human trafficking;
     7    (ii) how human trafficking is defined in law;
     8    (iii) how to identify victims of human trafficking;
     9    (iv) relief and recovery options for survivors; and
    10    (v) social and legal services available to victims.
    11    d.  The  commissioner of the division of criminal justice services and
    12  the commissioner of the office of temporary  and  disability  assistance
    13  shall make available a list of established or approved human trafficking
    14  recognition programs for use by a gaming facility.
    15    e. All new employees required to receive human trafficking recognition
    16  training shall receive such training within their first month of employ-
    17  ment.
    18    f. The training shall take place on the premises of the gaming facili-
    19  ty and shall be considered compensable time.
    20    2. Record keeping requirements of human trafficking recognition train-
    21  ing.  Every keeper of each  gaming facility shall maintain records indi-
    22  cating that each employee required to undergo an established or approved
    23  human  trafficking recognition training program pursuant to this section
    24  has completed such training. Such records shall be kept on file  by  the
    25  gaming  facility for the period during which the employee is employed by
    26  the gaming facility and for one year after such employment ends.
    27    § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
    28  have  become  a  law;  provided however, paragraph d of subdivision 1 of
    29  section 210 of the general business law as added by section  1  of  this
    30  act,  shall  take  effect immediately; provided further that all current
    31  employees of gaming facilities on the effective date of this  act  shall
    32  receive  human-trafficking  recognition  training  pursuant  to this act
    33  within four months of the effective date of this act.
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