Assembly Bill A8738

Signed By Governor
2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to written material provided to human trafficking victims

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Archive: Last Bill Status Via S7712 - Signed by Governor

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2021-A8738 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7712
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §483-cc, Soc Serv L (as proposed in S.924 & A.3331)

2021-A8738 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires law enforcement agencies or district attorney's offices to inform human trafficking victims of where certain brochures or written materials regarding social or legal services available to such victim are available online.

2021-A8738 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8738
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 11, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. HEVESI -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Social Services
 
 AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to written material
   provided  to  human trafficking victims regarding available social and
   legal services
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Subdivision  (c) of section 483-cc of the social services
 law, as added by a chapter of the  laws  of  2021  amending  the  social
 services  law  relating  to  advising  human  trafficking victims of the
 availability of social and legal services, as  proposed  in  legislative
 bills numbers S.  924 and A. 3331, is amended to read as follows:
   (c) Promptly upon an encounter with a person who reasonably appears to
 a  law  enforcement  agency  or district attorney's office to be a human
 trafficking victim, or a person who identifies himself or herself  as  a
 human trafficking victim, such law enforcement agency or district attor-
 ney's  office  shall  advise  such  person  of  the  availability of the
 services of specific, established providers of social and legal services
 to human trafficking victims.  Each local department of social  services
 shall  maintain  and  shall  update,  at  least once annually, a list of
 established providers of social and legal services to human  trafficking
 victims within the social services district, which shall be provided, at
 least once annually, to law enforcement agencies and district attorney's
 offices  within  the district.  In order to communicate effectively with
 such person, the law enforcement agency or  district  attorney's  office
 may  provide  such individual with a brochure or other written material,
 INCLUDING BY INFORMING THE INDIVIDUAL WHERE SUCH WRITTEN  MATERIALS  ARE
 AVAILABLE  ONLINE,  translated  into  the  six  most  common non-English
 languages spoken by individuals with limited English proficiency in  the
 state  or  in  the  applicable county, city, or town; provided, however,
 where such person is not proficient in one of such  languages,  the  law
 enforcement  agency  or district attorney's office shall make reasonable
 efforts to communicate effectively with such person, using an interpret-
 er or interpretation services, where practicable.  Unless, after receiv-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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