Bill Text: NY S08874 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires certain lodging facilities to make available information concerning services for human trafficking victims.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-19 - SUBSTITUTED BY A10425A [S08874 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S08874-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8874 IN SENATE May 31, 2018 ___________ 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 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 general business law is amended by adding a new section 2 206-f to read as follows: 3 § 206-f. Information concerning services for human trafficking 4 victims. 1. For purposes of this section, "lodging facility" shall mean 5 any inn, hotel, motel, motor court or other establishment that provides 6 lodging to transient guests. Such term shall not include an establish- 7 ment treated as a dwelling unit for the purposes of any state or local 8 law or regulation or an establishment located within a building that has 9 five or less rooms for rent or hire and that is actually occupied as a 10 residence by the proprietor of such establishment. 11 2. Every keeper of a lodging facility shall make available in plain 12 view and in a conspicuous place and manner in the public restrooms, and 13 in the individual guest rooms, and near the public entrance or in anoth- 14 er conspicuous location in clear view of the public and the employees 15 where similar information is customarily displayed in such lodging 16 facility, informational cards developed by: (i) the office of temporary 17 and disability assistance in consultation with the New York state inter- 18 agency task force on human trafficking; or (ii) the United States 19 Department of Homeland Security; or (iii) the lodging facility. All 20 informational cards shall only contain information concerning services 21 for human trafficking victims and shall prominently include the national 22 human trafficking hotline telephone number. The office of temporary and 23 disability assistance in consultation with the New York state interagen- 24 cy task force on human trafficking, shall develop a notice which shall 25 include the national human trafficking hotline telephone number, to be 26 made available to lodging facilities to post on a voluntary basis. 27 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall 28 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD15495-07-8
