Bill Text: NY A09406 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires information concerning services for human trafficking victims in airports; provides that such provisions shall not apply to any airport operated by a bi-state authority; defines terms.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2022-07-20 - signed chap.389 [A09406 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A09406-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9406

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      March 2, 2022
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Transportation

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  transportation  law, in relation to information
          concerning  services  for  human  trafficking  victims  in  commercial
          service airports

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

     1    Section 1. The transportation law is amended by adding a  new  section
     2  14-n to read as follows:
     3    §  14-n. Information concerning services for human trafficking victims
     4  in commercial service airports and general  aviation  airports.  1.  The
     5  operator  of a commercial service airport  and the operator of a general
     6  aviation airport shall make available in the public restrooms, in  plain
     7  view  and  in a conspicuous place and manner, informational cards and/or
     8  signs developed by:
     9    (a) the office of temporary and disability assistance in  consultation
    10  with the New York state interagency task force on human trafficking; or
    11    (b) the United States Department of Homeland Security.
    12    2.  All such informational cards and signs shall only contain informa-
    13  tion concerning services for human trafficking victims and shall  promi-
    14  nently include the national human trafficking hotline telephone number.
    15    3. The provisions of this section shall not apply to any airport oper-
    16  ated by a bi-state authority.
    17    4.  For  the  purposes of this section, the following terms shall have
    18  the following meanings:
    19    (a) "airport" shall mean an area of land or water used or intended  to
    20  be  used for the landing and taking off of aircraft, an appurtenant area
    21  used or intended to be used  for  airport  buildings  or  other  airport
    22  facilities  or  rights  of  way,  and  airport  buildings and facilities
    23  located in any of those areas. Such term shall include heliports;
    24    (b) "commercial service airport" shall mean  a  public  airport  or  a
    25  public-use airport in the state that, as determined by the United States
    26  secretary  of transportation, has at least twenty-five hundred passenger

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14913-01-2
        A. 9406                             2

     1  boardings each  year  and  is  receiving  scheduled  passenger  aircraft
     2  service;
     3    (c)  "general aviation airport" shall mean a public airport or a publ-
     4  ic-use airport with passenger boardings in the state that, as determined
     5  by the United States secretary of transportation, either: (i)  does  not
     6  have  scheduled  service;  or  (ii) has scheduled service with less than
     7  twenty-five hundred passenger boardings each year;
     8    (d) "passenger boardings" shall mean revenue  passenger  boardings  in
     9  the  prior  calendar  year on an aircraft in service in air commerce, as
    10  the United States  secretary  of  transportation  determines,  including
    11  passengers  who  continue  on  an  aircraft in international flight that
    12  stops at an airport in the state for a nontraffic purpose;
    13    (e) "public airport" means an airport used or intended to be used  for
    14  public  purposes:  (i) that is under the control of the state, a county,
    15  city, town, or village or a state or local authority ; and (ii) of which
    16  the area used or intended to be used for the  landing,  taking  off,  or
    17  surface  maneuvering  of  aircraft is publicly owned. Provided, however,
    18  such term shall not include any airport operated by a bi-state  authori-
    19  ty; and
    20    (f)  "public-use  airport"  shall mean an airport available for use by
    21  the general public without a requirement for the prior approval  of  the
    22  owner  or  operator  thereof except as may be required by federal law or
    23  regulation.
    24    § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
    25  have become a law.