2023 New York Laws › GBS - General Business › Article 12 - Hotels and Boarding Houses › 205 - Human Trafficking Awareness and Training.

§  205. Human trafficking awareness and training. 1. Human trafficking
recognition training program. a. For purposes of this section,  "lodging
facility"  shall  mean  any  inn,  hotel,  motel,  motor  court or other
establishment that provides lodging to transient guests. Such term shall
not include an establishment treated as a dwelling unit for the purposes
of any state or local law or  regulation  or  an  establishment  located
within  a building that has five or less rooms for rent or hire and that
is  actually  occupied  as  a  residence  by  the  proprietor  of   such
establishment.
b.  Every  lodging facility shall require all employees who are likely
to interact or  come  into  contact  with  guests  to  undergo  a  human
trafficking  recognition  training  program  to  provide training in the
recognition of a human trafficking victim as  defined  in  section  four
hundred  eighty-three-aa  of  the  social  services  law.  Such training
program shall be established or approved by  the  division  of  criminal
justice  services  and the office of temporary and disability assistance
in consultation with the New York state interagency task force on  human
trafficking.  The training program may be developed by a federal, state,
or non-profit organization, and may  be  incorporated  as  part  of  the
lodging  facility's  existing  training  programs  or may be provided by
organizations  or  providers  identified  by  the  commissioner  of  the
division  of criminal justice services or the commissioner of the office
of temporary and  disability  assistance,  provided  that  the  training
includes  all  of  the  requirements  of  this  section.  Established or
approved  training  programs  may  be  made  available  through  methods
including,  but  not  limited  to, in-person instruction, electronic and
video communication, or online programs.
c. Any human trafficking recognition training program  established  or
approved  by the division of criminal justice services and the office of
temporary and disability assistance in consultation with  the  New  York
state  interagency  task  force on human trafficking as required in this
section shall address no less than the following issues:
(i) the nature of human trafficking;
(ii) how human trafficking is defined in law;
(iii) how to identify victims of human trafficking; and
(iv) who to contact, such as the national human  trafficking  hotline,
which connects victims of human trafficking to:
(A) relief and recovery options; and
(B) social and legal services.
d.  The  commissioner of the division of criminal justice services and
the commissioner of the office of temporary  and  disability  assistance
shall  make  available  a  list  online of established or approved human
trafficking recognition programs for use by a lodging facility.
e. All new employees required to receive human trafficking recognition
training shall receive such training within their first  sixty  days  of
employment.
f.  The  training  shall  take  place  on  the premises of the lodging
facility and shall be considered compensable time.
2.  Record  keeping  requirements  of  human  trafficking  recognition
training.  Every  keeper of each lodging facility shall maintain records
indicating that each employee required  to  undergo  an  established  or
approved human trafficking recognition training program pursuant to this
section  has completed such training. Such records shall be kept on file
by the lodging facility for the period  during  which  the  employee  is
employed  by the lodging facility and for one year after such employment
ends.