Senate Bill S7712

Signed By Governor
2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to written material provided to human trafficking victims

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  • 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-S7712 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A8738
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §483-cc, Soc Serv L (as proposed in S.924 & A.3331)

2021-S7712 (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-S7712 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S7712 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7712
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              January 7, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  RAMOS  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 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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