Bill Text: NY S03220 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires information on resources for domestic violence and human trafficking victims to be posted in public restrooms and other areas of public buildings which shall be deemed appropriate by the office and task force on human trafficking.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS [S03220 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S03220-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          3220

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 30, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
          ment Operations

        AN ACT to amend the public  buildings  law,  in  relation  to  requiring
          information  on  resources for domestic violence and human trafficking
          victims to be posted in public restrooms

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

     1    Section 1. The public buildings law is amended by adding a new section
     2  147 to read as follows:
     3    §  147. Display of resources for domestic violence and human traffick-
     4  ing victims. 1.  As used in this section:
     5    (a) "covered public building" shall have the same meaning as  provided
     6  in section one hundred forty-four of this article;
     7    (b)  "office"  shall  mean  the  office for the prevention of domestic
     8  violence; and
     9    (c) "task force" shall mean the New York state interagency task  force
    10  on human trafficking.
    11    2.  The office, in collaboration with the task force, shall create and
    12  publish a poster containing information which shall include, but not  be
    13  limited to, contact information for the New York state police, the divi-
    14  sion  of  criminal  justice services, and the national human trafficking
    15  hotline, the domestic violence hotline telephone  number  maintained  by
    16  the  office,  and  any other information the office and task force shall
    17  deem appropriate to assist victims of domestic violence and human  traf-
    18  ficking.  Such  information shall be printed in English and in any other
    19  languages deemed appropriate by the office and task force.
    20    3. A covered public building shall display the poster created pursuant
    21  to subdivision two of this section in plain view and  in  a  conspicuous
    22  place  and  manner  in  all  public  restrooms,  and  in any other areas
    23  directed by the office and task force.
    24    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth 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.
                                                                   LBD08133-01-3