What's happening
This bill requires customer-facing employees of private transportation services in New York to complete standardized human trafficking recognition training.
Why it matters
Increases frontline detection of trafficking. By requiring all customer-facing employees in private transportation (such as buses, trains, ferries, and paratransit) to complete standardized training, the bill leverages a workforce that frequently interacts with the public—potentially increasing early identification of trafficking victims.
Mandates comprehensive, standardized training. The training program must cover the definition, recognition, and legal aspects of human trafficking, as well as survivor support and available services, ensuring a consistent and thorough understanding across the entire industry.
Creates cross-agency collaboration. The program must be developed jointly by the Division of Criminal Justice Services, Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance, Department of Labor, and the New York State Interagency Task Force on Human Trafficking, which could improve training quality and ensure alignment with current state efforts and resources.
Sets a clear and urgent implementation timeline. The law requires the standardized training program to be developed and available within six months, signaling the state’s recognition of trafficking as an urgent issue and pushing for prompt action by both agencies and private companies.
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Train Transit Workers on Trafficking
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- Referred to social services
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Train Employees to Spot Trafficking
In Senate Committee · Social Services · Sponsor Alessandra Biaggi
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STATE OF NEW YORK
7747
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 17, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. HUNTER -- 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 for private transportation services
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; private transportation services. Any private 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 private 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;
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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(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.
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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