Bill Text: NY A09410 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the Port Authority to provide information concerning services for human trafficking victims in Port Authority bus terminals.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2022-07-20 - signed chap.390 [A09410 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A09410-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          9410

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      March 2, 2022
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions

        AN  ACT  to  amend chapter 154 of the laws of 1921, relating to the port
          authority of New York and  New  Jersey,  in  relation  to  information
          concerning  services  for  human trafficking victims in Port Authority
          bus terminals

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

     1    Section  1.   Subparagraphs 4 and 5 of paragraph f of subdivision 3 of
     2  article 4 of section 1 of chapter 154 of the laws of 1921,  relating  to
     3  the port authority of New York and New Jersey, as amended by chapter 559
     4  of  the  laws  of 2015, are amended and a new subparagraph 6 is added to
     5  read as follows:
     6    (4) establish a policy  requiring  all  commissioners,  officers,  and
     7  employees  with  decision-making authority to maintain records regarding
     8  contact with lobbyists. As used in this subsection: (i) "contact"  means
     9  any  conversation, in person or by telephonic or other electronic means,
    10  or correspondence between any lobbyist engaged in the  act  of  lobbying
    11  and  any  person  within  the port authority who can make or influence a
    12  decision on the subject of the  lobbying  on  the  behalf  of  the  port
    13  authority,  and shall include, at a minimum, all members of the board of
    14  commissioners and all officers of the port  authority,  (ii)  "lobbyist"
    15  shall  have  the  same meaning as defined in the laws or, rules or regu-
    16  lations of either state, and (iii) "lobbying" shall mean and include any
    17  attempt to influence: (a) the adoption or rejection of any rule or regu-
    18  lation having the force and effect of law by the port authority, (b) the
    19  outcome of any proceeding by the port authority to  establish,  levy  or
    20  collect  fees,  tolls,  charges  or  fares,  and  (c) the authorization,
    21  approval or award of  any  agreements,  contracts  or  purchase  orders,
    22  including  any  settlement  of  port authority claims, or any extension,
    23  amendment or modification of any existing agreement, contract or  order;
    24  [and]
    25    (5)  have an efficiency study of the port authority and its operations
    26  conducted by an independent entity within three years of  the  effective

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14906-03-2
        A. 9410                             2

     1  date of this section and thereafter upon the request of the governors of
     2  New  York and New Jersey, and if no request is made, no later than three
     3  years after the most recent efficiency study was conducted[.]; and
     4    (6)  information  concerning services for human trafficking victims in
     5  port authority bus terminals. 1. Any bus terminal maintained or operated
     6  by the port authority shall make  available  in  plain  view  and  in  a
     7  conspicuous  place  and  manner  in  the public restrooms, informational
     8  cards and/or 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 informational cards and signs shall  only  contain  information
    13  concerning  services for human trafficking victims and shall prominently
    14  include the national human trafficking hotline telephone number.
    15    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
    16  have become a law; provided, however that this  act  shall  take  effect
    17  upon  the  enactment  into law by the state of New Jersey of legislation
    18  having an identical effect with this act, but if the state of New Jersey
    19  shall have already enacted such legislation, this act shall take  effect
    20  immediately;  provided  that  the  chairman of the port authority of New
    21  Jersey shall notify the legislative bill drafting  commission  upon  the
    22  occurrence  of  the enactment of the legislation provided for in section
    23  one of this act in order that the commission may  maintain  an  accurate
    24  and  timely  effective  database of the official text of the laws of the
    25  state of New York in  furtherance  of  effectuating  the  provisions  of
    26  section  44  of the legislative law and section 70-b of the public offi-
    27  cers law.