Bill Text: NY A10248 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 10248 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Provides for information concerning services for human trafficking victims in transit facilities operated by the metropolitan transportation authority.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-09-16 - print number 10248a [A10248 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A10248-Amended.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                        10248--A

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 13, 2022
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Paulin) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on  Corporations,  Authorities
          and   Commissions  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation  to  information
          concerning services for human trafficking victims

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

     1    Section 1. The public authorities law  is  amended  by  adding  a  new
     2  section 1266-l to read as follows:
     3    §  1266-l.  Information  concerning  services  for  human  trafficking
     4  victims.  1. The authority shall make available in plain view and  in  a
     5  conspicuous  place  and manner in the public restrooms and in any lacta-
     6  tion rooms of any transit facility operated by the  authority,  informa-
     7  tional cards and/or signs developed by:
     8    (a)  the office of temporary and disability assistance in consultation
     9  with the New York state interagency task force on human trafficking; or
    10    (b) the United States Department of Homeland Security.
    11    2. All informational cards and signs shall  only  contain  information
    12  concerning  services for human trafficking victims and shall prominently
    13  include the national human trafficking hotline telephone number.
    14    3. For purposes of this section, the term "lactation room" shall  mean
    15  a hygienic place, other than a restroom, that is intended to be used for
    16  the primary purpose of breastfeeding or expressing breast milk.
    17    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
    18  have become a law.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15241-02-2