Bill Text: NY S00390 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 390

Introduced

Bill Title: Directs the division of criminal justice services, in consultation with the office of temporary and disability assistance, to establish a universal, statewide human trafficking hotline to provide individuals in the state access to appropriate counselling and services for human trafficking victims.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO CODES [S00390 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S00390-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           390

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 4, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to directing the division
          of criminal justice services to establish a universal, statewide human
          trafficking hotline

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

     1    Section  1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 837-x
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 837-x. Statewide human trafficking hotline. The division, in consul-
     4  tation with the office of temporary  and  disability  assistance,  shall
     5  establish a toll free confidential hotline to provide individuals in the
     6  state access to appropriate counselling and services for human traffick-
     7  ing victims. The division shall operate this hotline twenty-four hours a
     8  day,  seven  days a week, and disseminate information about this hotline
     9  in order to ensure public knowledge of the hotline, including by working
    10  with the office of temporary and disability assistance  to  ensure  that
    11  information  on the hotline is included as an additional resource in any
    12  materials and on any posters which reference the  National  Human  Traf-
    13  ficking Resource Center Hotline.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02446-01-3