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New York · 2025-2026 General Assembly
S02005Relates to certain prostitution offenses and fines relating thereto; relates to motions to vacate judgment and motions for new sentencing; relates to investigation into acts alleged to be the unauthorized practice of massage therapy by potential victims of human trafficking; prohibits the possession of reproductive or sexual health devices from being permitted in specified criminal or civil proceedings as evidence of prostitution; relates to services for exploited individuals, services for victims of human trafficking and the interagency task force on human trafficking; establishes the victims of sexual exploitation fund; makes conforming changes; repeals provisions relating to prostitution, prostitution in a school zone, defense against patronizing a person for prostitution and a motion to dismiss information, simplified information, prosecutor's information or misdemeanor complaint.
Expands services and programs for victims of human trafficking and sexual exploitation to include legal and immigration services, and adds immigration-related considerations to the interagency task force and data collection on trafficking.
Expands the interagency task force on human trafficking to seek input from representatives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning individuals when developing programs on human trafficking and sexual exploitation.
An effort shall be made to include representatives from the following groups of people: survivors of human trafficking, survivors of sexual exploitation, service providers from various geographic areas of the state, representatives of women's rights organizations, representatives of the lesbian gay bisexual transgender and questioning individuals and representatives from various ethnic demographics across New York state.
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Why the model tagged it this way: The bill primarily repeals prostitution offenses (including in a school zone), automatically vacates related convictions, prohibits using condoms or reproductive/sexual health devices as evidence of prostitution-related misdemeanors, expands victim services and training for law enforcement on human trafficking and sexual exploitation (including raising the age for sexually exploited individuals to 24 and adding immigration services), and makes related conforming changes. These provisions substantively address immigration-enforcement/other by expanding support services for trafficking victims (
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