Bill Text: NY S04927 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires employees of gaming facilities to undergo human-trafficking recognition training which shall address the nature of human trafficking, how human trafficking is defined in law, how to identify victims of human trafficking, relief and recovery options for survivors, and social and legal services available to victims.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO CONSUMER PROTECTION [S04927 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S04927-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4927

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 18, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  LANZA  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Consumer Protection

        AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to employee  human
          trafficking recognition training in gaming facilities

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

     1    Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
     2  210 to read as follows:
     3    § 210. Human trafficking recognition training.   1. Human  trafficking
     4  recognition  training  program. a.  Any establishment that constitutes a
     5  gaming facility as defined by subdivision twenty-three of section  thir-
     6  teen  hundred  one of the racing, pari-mutuel wagering and breeding law,
     7  shall require all employees to undergo a human  trafficking  recognition
     8  training  program which shall be established or approved by the division
     9  of criminal justice services and the office of temporary and  disability
    10  assistance  in  consultation  with  the  New York state interagency task
    11  force on human trafficking.  However, for class  III  gaming  establish-
    12  ments  authorized  under  the  Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, 25 U.S.C. §
    13  2701, et seq., the gaming commission shall make available, upon request,
    14  such human-trafficking recognition training program.
    15    b. The training program may be developed by a federal, state, or  non-
    16  profit  organization,  and  may  be  incorporated  as part of the gaming
    17  facility's existing training programs or may be  provided  by  organiza-
    18  tions  or  providers  identified  by the commissioner of the division of
    19  criminal justice services or the commissioner of the office of temporary
    20  and disability assistance, provided that the training includes   all  of
    21  the  requirements  of  this  section.  Established  or approved training
    22  programs may be made available through methods including, but not limit-
    23  ed to, in-person instruction, electronic  and  video  communication,  or
    24  online programs.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06456-01-1
        S. 4927                             2

     1    c.  Any  human trafficking recognition training program established or
     2  approved by the division of criminal justice services and the office  of
     3  temporary  and  disability  assistance in consultation with the New York
     4  state interagency task force on human trafficking as  required  by  this
     5  section shall address no less than the following issues:
     6    (i) the nature of human trafficking;
     7    (ii) how human trafficking is defined in law;
     8    (iii) how to identify victims of human trafficking;
     9    (iv) relief and recovery options for survivors; and
    10    (v) social and legal services available to victims.
    11    d.  The  commissioner of the division of criminal justice services and
    12  the commissioner of the office of temporary  and  disability  assistance
    13  shall make available a list of established or approved human trafficking
    14  recognition programs for use by a gaming facility.
    15    e. All new employees required to receive human trafficking recognition
    16  training shall receive such training within their first month of employ-
    17  ment.
    18    f. The training shall take place on the premises of the gaming facili-
    19  ty and shall be considered compensable time.
    20    2. Record keeping requirements of human trafficking recognition train-
    21  ing.  Every keeper of each  gaming facility shall maintain records indi-
    22  cating that each employee required to undergo an established or approved
    23  human  trafficking recognition training program pursuant to this section
    24  has completed such training. Such records shall be kept on file  by  the
    25  gaming  facility for the period during which the employee is employed by
    26  the gaming facility and for one year after such employment ends.
    27    § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
    28  have  become  a  law;  provided however, paragraph d of subdivision 1 of
    29  section 210 of the general business law as added by section  1  of  this
    30  act,  shall  take  effect immediately; provided further that all current
    31  employees of gaming facilities on the effective date of this  act  shall
    32  receive  human-trafficking  recognition  training  pursuant  to this act
    33  within four months of the effective date of this act.