Bill Text: NY S01296 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Directs the commissioner of DMV to establish a sex trafficking awareness and prevention program to provide education and awareness literature and educational materials to all drivers with a commercial motor vehicle license.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 6-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S01296 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S01296-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1296 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 14, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sens. SERINO, AMEDORE, FUNKE, GALLIVAN, ROBACH, SEWARD -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to establishing a sex trafficking awareness and prevention program The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new 2 section 224-b to read as follows: 3 § 224-b. Sex trafficking awareness and prevention program. The commis- 4 sioner, in conjunction with the commissioner of the division of criminal 5 justice services and the commissioner of transportation, shall develop 6 a sex trafficking prevention program. The sex trafficking awareness and 7 prevention program shall be established for the purpose of providing 8 education and awareness for the prevention of sex trafficking in this 9 state. Within amounts appropriated, the program shall provide education 10 and awareness literature and educational materials to all drivers with a 11 commercial motor vehicle license as defined in section five hundred 12 one-a of this chapter. The materials shall include, but not be limited 13 to, warning signs of potential sex trafficking and entities to whom a 14 driver may report suspected activity that might constitute sex traffick- 15 ing. 16 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD06841-01-9