Senate Bill S1296

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to establishing a sex trafficking awareness and prevention program

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Transportation Committee

  • 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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2019-S1296 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Add §224-b, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S8535
2021-2022: S2827
2023-2024: S5061

2019-S1296 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs the commissioner of DMV to establish a sex trafficking awareness and prevention program to provide education and awareness literature and educational materials to all drivers with a commercial motor vehicle license.

2019-S1296 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S1296 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1296
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 14, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sens. SERINO, AMEDORE, FUNKE, GALLIVAN, ROBACH, SEWARD --
   read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be  committed  to
   the Committee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to establishing
   a sex trafficking awareness and prevention program

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The vehicle and traffic law is  amended  by  adding  a  new
 section 224-b to read as follows:
   § 224-B. SEX TRAFFICKING AWARENESS AND PREVENTION PROGRAM. THE COMMIS-
 SIONER, IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE COMMISSIONER OF THE DIVISION OF CRIMINAL
 JUSTICE   SERVICES AND THE COMMISSIONER OF TRANSPORTATION, SHALL DEVELOP
 A SEX TRAFFICKING PREVENTION PROGRAM. THE SEX TRAFFICKING AWARENESS  AND
 PREVENTION  PROGRAM  SHALL  BE  ESTABLISHED FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROVIDING
 EDUCATION AND AWARENESS FOR THE PREVENTION OF SEX  TRAFFICKING  IN  THIS
 STATE.  WITHIN AMOUNTS APPROPRIATED, THE PROGRAM SHALL PROVIDE EDUCATION
 AND AWARENESS LITERATURE AND EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS TO ALL DRIVERS WITH A
 COMMERCIAL MOTOR VEHICLE LICENSE AS  DEFINED  IN  SECTION  FIVE  HUNDRED
 ONE-A  OF  THIS CHAPTER. THE MATERIALS SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED
 TO, WARNING SIGNS OF POTENTIAL SEX TRAFFICKING AND ENTITIES  TO  WHOM  A
 DRIVER MAY REPORT SUSPECTED ACTIVITY THAT MIGHT CONSTITUTE SEX TRAFFICK-
 ING.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06841-01-9

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