Bill Text: NY A04586 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that lactation rooms in service areas which are maintained or operated by the New York state thruway authority shall display information for services related to human trafficking.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-09-27 - signed chap.494 [A04586 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A04586-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          4586

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 17, 2023
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        Introduced by 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:

     1    Section 1. Section 389 of the public  authorities  law,  as  added  by
     2  chapter 394 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows:
     3    §  389.  Information concerning services for human trafficking victims
     4  in facilities at service areas. 1. In addition to providing  information
     5  concerning   services  for  human  trafficking  victims,  including  the
     6  national human  trafficking  hotline  telephone  number  on  its  closed
     7  circuit  television  systems, any service area maintained or operated by
     8  the authority shall make available in plain view and  in  a  conspicuous
     9  place  and  manner  in  the public restrooms and in any lactation rooms,
    10  informational cards and/or signs developed by:
    11    [(i)] (a) the office of temporary and disability assistance in consul-
    12  tation with the New York state interagency task force on human traffick-
    13  ing; or
    14    [(ii)] (b) the United States Department of Homeland Security.
    15    2. All informational cards and signs shall  only  contain  information
    16  concerning  services for human trafficking victims and shall prominently
    17  include the national human trafficking hotline telephone number.
    18    3. For purposes of this section, "lactation room" shall mean a hygien-
    19  ic place, other than a restroom, that: (a) is shielded from view; (b) is
    20  free from intrusion; (c) contains a chair, a working  surface,  and,  if
    21  the  building  is  otherwise    supplied with electricity, an electrical
    22  outlet; and (d) is intended to  be  used  for  the  primary  purpose  of
    23  breastfeeding or expressing breast milk.
    24    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
    25  have become a law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04693-01-3