New York Senate Bill S00390 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 390 2023-2024 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 4, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sen. CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to directing the division of criminal justice services to establish a universal, statewide human trafficking hotline The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 837-x 2 to read as follows: 3 § 837-x. Statewide human trafficking hotline. The division, in consul- 4 tation with the office of temporary and disability assistance, shall 5 establish a toll free confidential hotline to provide individuals in the 6 state access to appropriate counselling and services for human traffick- 7 ing victims. The division shall operate this hotline twenty-four hours a 8 day, seven days a week, and disseminate information about this hotline 9 in order to ensure public knowledge of the hotline, including by working 10 with the office of temporary and disability assistance to ensure that 11 information on the hotline is included as an additional resource in any 12 materials and on any posters which reference the National Human Traf- 13 ficking Resource Center Hotline. 14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD02446-01-3