S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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I N A S S E M B L Y
September 9, 2022
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Paulin) --
read once and referred to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities
and Commissions
AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to information
concerning services for human trafficking victims in certain facili-
ties at service areas
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Section 389 of the public authorities law, as added by
chapter 394 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows:
§ 389. Information concerning services for human trafficking victims
in facilities at service areas. 1. In addition to providing information
concerning services for human trafficking victims, including the
national human trafficking hotline telephone number on its closed
circuit television systems, any service area maintained or operated by
the authority shall make available in plain view and in a conspicuous
place and manner in the public restrooms AND IN ANY LACTATION ROOMS,
informational cards and/or signs developed by:
(i) the office of temporary and disability assistance in consultation
with the New York state interagency task force on human trafficking; or
(ii) the United States Department of Homeland Security.
2. All informational cards and signs shall only contain information
concerning services for human trafficking victims and shall prominently
include the national human trafficking hotline telephone number.
3. FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, "LACTATION ROOM" SHALL MEAN A HYGIEN-
IC PLACE, OTHER THAN A RESTROOM, THAT IS INTENDED TO BE USED FOR THE
PRIMARY PURPOSE OF BREASTFEEDING OR EXPRESSING BREAST MILK.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
have become a law, provided, however, that if chapter 394 of the laws of
2022 shall not have taken effect on or before such date then section one
of this act shall take effect on the same date and in the same manner as
such chapter of the laws of 2022 takes effect.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD16252-01-2