Bill Text: NY S06893 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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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: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-20 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S06893 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S06893-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6893--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                   September 29, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sens. LANZA, HAMILTON -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules  --  recom-
          mitted  to  the  Committee  on  Consumer Protection in accordance with
          Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        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-
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09155-03-8
        S. 6893--A                          2
     1  ed  to,  in-person  instruction,  electronic and video communication, or
     2  online programs.
     3    c.  Any  human trafficking recognition training program established or
     4  approved by the division of criminal justice services and the office  of
     5  temporary  and  disability  assistance in consultation with the New York
     6  state interagency task force on human trafficking as  required  by  this
     7  section shall address no less than the following issues:
     8    (i) the nature of human trafficking;
     9    (ii) how human trafficking is defined in law;
    10    (iii) how to identify victims of human trafficking;
    11    (iv) relief and recovery options for survivors; and
    12    (v) social and legal services available to victims.
    13    d.  The  commissioner of the division of criminal justice services and
    14  the commissioner of the office of temporary  and  disability  assistance
    15  shall make available a list of established or approved human trafficking
    16  recognition programs for use by a gaming facility.
    17    e. All new employees required to receive human trafficking recognition
    18  training shall receive such training within their first month of employ-
    19  ment.
    20    f. The training shall take place on the premises of the gaming facili-
    21  ty and shall be considered compensable time.
    22    2. Record keeping requirements of human trafficking recognition train-
    23  ing.  Every keeper of each  gaming facility shall maintain records indi-
    24  cating that each employee required to undergo an established or approved
    25  human  trafficking recognition training program pursuant to this section
    26  has completed such training. Such records shall be kept on file  by  the
    27  gaming  facility for the period during which the employee is employed by
    28  the gaming facility and for one year after such employment ends.
    29    § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
    30  have  become  a  law;  provided however, paragraph d of subdivision 1 of
    31  section 210 of the general business law shall take  effect  immediately;
    32  provided  further that all current employees of gaming facilities on the
    33  effective date of this act shall receive  human-trafficking  recognition
    34  training  pursuant  to this act within four months of the effective date
    35  of this act.