Bill Text: NY A04669 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires information concerning services for human trafficking victims to be provided in lactation rooms in Port Authority bus terminals.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-09-27 - signed chap.495 [A04669 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A04669-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4669

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 22, 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 chapter 154 of the laws of 1921, relating to the port
          authority of New York and New Jersey, in relation to providing  infor-
          mation  concerning services for human trafficking victims in lactation
          rooms in Port Authority bus terminals

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Subparagraph 6 of paragraph f of subdivision 3 of article
     2  IV of section 1 of chapter 154 of the laws of 1921,   relating   to  the
     3  port  authority  of  New York and New Jersey, as added by chapter 390 of
     4  the  laws  of 2022, is amended to read as follows:
     5    (6) information concerning services for human trafficking  victims  in
     6  port authority bus terminals. 1. Any bus terminal maintained or operated
     7  by  the  port  authority  shall  make  available  in plain view and in a
     8  conspicuous place and manner in the public restrooms and in  any  lacta-
     9  tion rooms, informational cards and/or signs developed by:
    10    (a)  the office of temporary and disability assistance in consultation
    11  with the New York state interagency task force on human trafficking; or
    12    (b) the United States Department of Homeland Security.
    13    2. All informational cards and signs shall  only  contain  information
    14  concerning  services for human trafficking victims and shall prominently
    15  include the national human trafficking hotline telephone number.
    16    3. For purposes of this section, "lactation room" shall mean a hygien-
    17  ic place, other than a restroom, that: (a) is shielded from view; (b) is
    18  free from intrusion; (c) contains a chair, a working  surface,  and,  if
    19  the  building  is  otherwise    supplied with electricity, an electrical
    20  outlet; and (d) is intended to  be  used  for  the  primary  purpose  of
    21  breastfeeding or expressing breast milk.
    22    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect upon the enactment into law by the
    23  state of New Jersey of legislation having an identical effect with  this

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  act,  but  if  the  state  of New Jersey shall have already enacted such
     2  legislation, this act shall take effect immediately; provided  that  the
     3  chairperson  of the port authority of New Jersey shall notify the legis-
     4  lative  bill drafting commission upon the occurrence of the enactment of
     5  the legislation provided for in section one of this act  in  order  that
     6  the  commission  may maintain an accurate and timely effective data base
     7  of the official text of the laws of the state of New York in furtherance
     8  of effectuating the provisions of section 44 of the legislative law  and
     9  section 70-b of the public officers law.