Bill > A5703

Introduced Session

This bill requires public transportation employees to complete a training course on handling and responding to suspected human trafficking. Under the bill, the Department of Transportation, in consultation with the Commission on Human Trafficking, would develop, approve, and provide for a one-time training course on the handling and response procedures of suspected human trafficking activities for public transportation employees. Or alternatively, the department, in consultation with the commission, would approve for use a substantially similar one-time training course provided by a recognized nonprofit association with demonstrated experience in providing course offerings to public transportation employees. The department, in consultation with the commission and the approved nonprofit course provider, if any, would define by regulation which employees are required, as a condition of their employment, to attend the one-time training course. The training course would be reviewed at least every two years and modified by the department, in consultation with the commission and the approved nonprofit course provider, if any, from time to time as need may require. Under the bill, the Department of Transportation would be responsible for ensuring that all required employees attend the one-time training course within one year of the enactment of the bill in the case of all current employees engaging in their respective profession on the effective date of this bill, and within six months of the first day of employment for all new employees who initially engage in their respective profession on a date that follows the effective date. If an approved nonprofit course provider is involved in providing the one-time training course to new employees who initially engage in their respective profession on a date that follows the effective date of this bill, then the nonprofit course provider would provide the training course at least once every six months in order for these employees to meet the six-month training deadline. The Department of Transportation would also make available the training materials for the one-time training course to public transportation workers to fulfill the one-time training requirement as set forth in this bill. The bill would take effect on the 90th day following enactment.

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Daniel Benson (D)*,  Patricia Jones (D)*,  Pam Lampitt (D)*,  Vincent Mazzeo (D)*,  Joe Danielsen (D),  Mila Jasey (D),  Robert Karabinchak (D),  Yvonne Lopez (D),  Angela Mcknight (D),  Raj Mukherji (D),  Carol Murphy (D),  Parker Space (R),  Britnee Timberlake (D),  Valerie Vainieri Huttle (D),  Anthony Verrelli (D),  Jay Webber (R),  Harold Wirths (R), 

Received in the Senate, Referred to Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee (on 01/06/2020)

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