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                                   9566
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 23, 2018
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 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  HEVESI,  LENTOL,  O'DONNELL -- read once and
   referred to the Committee on Social Services
 
 AN ACT to amend the social services law, in  relation  to  services  for
   victims of human trafficking
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Section 483-aa of the social services  law  is  amended  by
 adding two new subdivisions (c) and (d) to read as follows:
   (C) "SHORT-TERM SAFE HOUSE" MEANS A RESIDENTIAL FACILITY OPERATED BY A
 NOT-FOR-PROFIT  AGENCY  WITH  EXPERIENCE  IN PROVIDING SERVICES TO HUMAN
 TRAFFICKING VICTIMS, THAT PROVIDES EMERGENCY SHELTER, SERVICES AND  CARE
 TO  HUMAN TRAFFICKING VICTIMS INCLUDING FOOD, SHELTER, CLOTHING, MEDICAL
 CARE,  COUNSELING  AND  APPROPRIATE  CRISIS  INTERVENTION  SERVICES  AND
 PROMOTES A SAFE LIVING ENVIRONMENT.
   (D)  "LONG-TERM SAFE HOUSE" MEANS A RESIDENTIAL FACILITY OPERATED BY A
 NOT-FOR-PROFIT AGENCY WITH EXPERIENCE IN  PROVIDING  SERVICES  TO  HUMAN
 TRAFFICKING VICTIMS, THAT PROVIDES SHELTER FOR HUMAN TRAFFICKING VICTIMS
 AND  PROMOTES  A  SAFE LIVING ENVIRONMENT. IN ADDITION, A LONG-TERM SAFE
 HOUSE SHALL PROVIDE OR ASSIST WITH SECURING NECESSARY SERVICES FOR  SUCH
 HUMAN  TRAFFICKING  VICTIMS EITHER THROUGH DIRECT PROVISION OF SERVICES,
 OR THROUGH WRITTEN AGREEMENTS WITH OTHER COMMUNITY AND  PUBLIC  AGENCIES
 FOR  THE  PROVISION  OF  SERVICES  INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO HOUSING,
 ASSESSMENT, CASE MANAGEMENT, MEDICAL  CARE,  LEGAL,  MENTAL  HEALTH  AND
 SUBSTANCE  USE  DISORDER SERVICES. SUCH SAFE HOUSE, IN ACCORDANCE WITH A
 SERVICE PLAN FOR SUCH HUMAN TRAFFICKING VICTIM, SHALL ALSO PROVIDE COUN-
 SELING AND THERAPEUTIC SERVICES,  EDUCATIONAL  SERVICES  INCLUDING  LIFE
 SKILLS  SERVICES,  JOB  TRAINING  AND PLACEMENT AND PLANNING SERVICES TO
 SUCCESSFULLY TRANSITION SUCH PERSON BACK INTO THE COMMUNITY.
   § 2. Subdivision (b) of section 483-bb of the social services law,  as
 added by chapter 74 of the laws of 2007, is amended to read as follows:
   (b)  [In  providing  such assistance, the] THE office of temporary and
 disability assistance [may] SHALL enter into contracts with  non-govern-
 ment  organizations for providing services to [pre-certified] victims of
 human trafficking as defined in subdivision [(b)] (A)  of  section  four
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 hundred eighty-three-aa of this article[, insofar as funds are available
 for that purpose]. Such services [may] SHALL BE CULTURALLY COMPETENT, TO
 THE  EXTENT PRACTICABLE, AND SHALL include, but are not limited to, case
 management,  emergency  temporary  housing,  health  care, mental health
 counseling, drug addiction screening and treatment, language interpreta-
 tion and translation services, English language instruction, job  train-
 ing   and   placement   assistance,  post-employment  services  for  job
 retention, and services to assist the individual and any of his  or  her
 family  members  to establish a permanent residence in New York state or
 the United States.  SUCH SERVICES SHALL ALSO INCLUDE APPROPRIATE  VOLUN-
 TARY  PLACEMENT  IN  A  SHORT-TERM  AND/OR LONG-TERM SAFE HOUSE, AS SUCH
 TERMS ARE DEFINED UNDER SUBDIVISION (C) OR (D) OF SECTION  FOUR  HUNDRED
 EIGHTY-THREE-AA  OF  THIS  ARTICLE.  PLACEMENT  IN A SAFE HOUSE SHALL BE
 AVAILABLE FROM THE INITIAL POINT OF CONTACT BETWEEN THE HUMAN  TRAFFICK-
 ING  VICTIM  AND  ANY  OF THE FOLLOWING: LAW ENFORCEMENT; A LOCAL SOCIAL
 SERVICES DISTRICT; OR A SOCIAL OR LEGAL SERVICES  PROVIDER.  NOTHING  IN
 THIS  ARTICLE  SHALL  PREVENT PLACEMENT IN A SAFE HOUSE OF A HUMAN TRAF-
 FICKING VICTIM WHO IS:   (1) INVOLVED IN  A  PROCEEDING  WHICH  HAS  NOT
 REACHED  FINAL DISPOSITION, FOR THE DURATION OF SUCH PROCEEDING; (2) NOT
 INVOLVED IN A PENDING PROCEEDING; OR (3) PARTICIPATING IN A PROGRAM  FOR
 VICTIMS  OF  DOMESTIC  VIOLENCE  AND  HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED AS A VICTIM OF
 HUMAN TRAFFICKING. Nothing in this [section] ARTICLE shall preclude  the
 office  of  temporary  and  disability  assistance,  or any local social
 services district, from providing  human  trafficking  victims  who  are
 United  States citizens or human trafficking victims who meet the crite-
 ria pursuant to section one hundred twenty-two of this chapter with  any
 benefits or services for which they otherwise may be eligible.
   § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
 it shall have become a law.