What's happening
This bill requires all customer-facing public transportation employees in New York to complete standardized human trafficking recognition training.
Why it matters
Expands front-line detection. By requiring all customer-facing public transportation employees to complete human trafficking recognition training, the bill leverages the daily contact these workers have with the public to identify potential trafficking victims who might otherwise go unnoticed.
Standardizes training content. The program must address key issues such as the definition of human trafficking in law, how to recognize victims, and available support services, ensuring a consistent and thorough understanding across all relevant employees statewide.
Promotes multi-agency collaboration. The training curriculum will be developed by the Division of Criminal Justice Services and the Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance, in consultation with labor and anti-trafficking task forces, integrating expertise from various sectors for a more robust approach.
Sets a swift implementation timeline. The law mandates that the standardized training be created and ready for use within six months of enactment, signaling urgency and prioritizing rapid deployment of these new protections.
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Who cares
Public transportation operators
Rail, bus, paratransit, charter bus and ferry services would have to require all customer-facing employees to undergo human-trafficking recognition training.
Customer-facing transportation employees
Employees who interact or communicate directly with customers would have to take training covering trafficking recognition, survivor recovery options and available services.
Division of Criminal Justice Services and Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance
The agencies would jointly develop and make a standardized training program available within six months of the bill’s effective date, consulting labor officials and the state’s human trafficking task force.
Human trafficking victims and survivors
The required training would teach transportation employees how to identify victims and cover relief, recovery, and social and legal services available to them.
Headline styles
Train Transit Staff on Trafficking
Plain English, a few words. Used as the page title.
Sponsors
8 Co-sponsors
1 Multi-sponsor
History
- Enacting clause stricken
- Amend by restoring to original print 7725
- Print number 7725a
- Amend (t) and recommit to transportation
- Referred to transportation
- Referred to transportation
Full text
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STATE OF NEW YORK
7725
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 11, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. HUNTER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the transportation law, in relation to employee human trafficking recognition training; and relating to authorizing the establishment of a standardized human trafficking recognition training program
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. The transportation law is amended by adding a new section 15-d to read as follows:
§ 15-d. Human-trafficking recognition training. Any public transportation service, including, but not limited to, rail passenger service, motorbus regular route service, paratransit service, motorbus charter service, and ferry passenger service, shall require all employees to undergo a human-trafficking recognition training program established by the division of criminal justice services and the office of temporary and disability assistance in consultation with the department and the New York state interagency task force on human trafficking.
§ 2. In consultation with the New York Interagency Task Force on Human Trafficking and the commissioner of transportation, the commissioner of the division of criminal justice services and the commissioner of the office of temporary and disability assistance shall together establish a standardized human-trafficking recognition training program for employees of public transportation services. The commissioners may use federal, state, and non-profit organization sources provided that such training program shall address no less than the following issues:
(a) The nature of human trafficking;
(b) How human trafficking is defined in law;
(c) How to identify victims of human trafficking;
(d) Relief and recovery options for survivors; and
(e) Social and legal services available to victims.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11380-02-7
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The commissioner of the division of criminal justice services and the commissioner of the office of temporary and disability assistance shall complete the human-trafficking recognition training program and make it available for use no more than six months after the effective date of this act.
§ 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
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