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This bill requires all customer-facing public transportation employees in New York to complete a standardized human trafficking recognition training program.
Why it matters
Expands frontline vigilance. By requiring all customer-facing public transportation employees to complete human trafficking recognition training, the bill ensures that a wide range of workers—often among the first to encounter trafficked individuals—are equipped to identify and respond to potential victims.
Standardizes training content. The mandated program will be created jointly by state agencies and experts, ensuring consistency and quality across all public transit systems, and covering key topics such as legal definitions, victim identification, and available support services.
Facilitates coordinated response. By involving multiple agencies (including the Division of Criminal Justice Services, Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance, Department of Labor, and the Interagency Task Force), the bill promotes a unified, informed approach to tackling human trafficking within New York’s transportation sector.
Potential to increase victim recovery. With more trained eyes on the lookout, the bill may lead to earlier identification of trafficking victims and faster connections to legal and social services, potentially improving outcomes for survivors.
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Train Transit Staff on Trafficking
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History
- Tabled
- Vetoed memo.240
- Delivered to governor
- Returned to assembly
- Passed senateVote 62–0
- 3rd reading cal.724
- Substituted for S3465
- Referred to social services
- Delivered to senate
- Passed assembly
- Advanced to third reading cal.224
- Reported
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- Reported referred to ways and means
- Referred to social services
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Train Transit Staff on Trafficking
Senate Floor Calendar · Sponsor Alessandra Biaggi
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STATE OF NEW YORK
1283
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 14, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. HUNTER, HYNDMAN, WILLIAMS, COOK, OTIS, HEVESI -read once and referred to the Committee on Social Services
AN ACT to amend the social services 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 social services law is amended by adding a new section 483-gg to read as follows:
§ 483-gg. 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 customer-facing 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 of labor and the New York state interagency task force on human trafficking. For the purposes of this section the term "customer-facing employee" shall mean any employee whose job involves interacting or communicating directly with customers.
§ 2. In consultation with the New York Interagency Task Force on Human Trafficking and the commissioner of labor, 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;
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[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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(c) How to identify victims of human trafficking;
(d) Relief and recovery options for survivors; and
(e) Social and legal services available to victims.
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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