New York S 9960: Establishes the crime of benefiting from a labor trafficking venture, benefiting from a sex trafficking venture; creates a civil action relating thereto; and revives certain civil actions relating thereto

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S09960 Summary:

BILL NOS09960B

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SAME ASSAME AS A11323-A

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SPONSORMYRIE

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COSPNSRADDABBO, BYNOE, CLEARE, GALLIVAN, GONZALEZ, GOUNARDES, HARCKHAM, PALUMBO, PERSAUD, RHOADS, ROLISON,
 SCARCELLA-SPANTON, SKOUFIS

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §§135.35-a, 230.34-b & 230.34-c, Pen L; amd §§483-aa & 483-bb, Soc Serv L; add §214-k, amd R3403, CPLR;
add §219-f, Judy L

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Establishes the crimes of benefiting from a labor trafficking venture, benefiting from a sex trafficking venture and aggravated benefiting from a sex trafficking venture; establishes civil action for victims of benefiting from a trafficking venture; revives such actions otherwise barred by the existing statute of limitations, grants trial preference to such actions; directs the chief administrator of the courts to promulgate rules for the timely adjudication of certain revived actions.

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BILL NOS09960B

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04/17/2026REFERRED TO CODES

05/04/20261ST REPORT CAL.884

05/05/20262ND REPORT CAL.

05/06/2026ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

05/21/2026AMENDED ON THIRD READING (T) 9960A

05/26/2026AMENDED ON THIRD READING 9960B

06/02/2026PASSED SENATE

06/02/2026DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 9960--B
 Cal. No. 884

 IN SENATE

 April 17, 2026
 ___________

 Introduced by Sens. MYRIE, ADDABBO, CLEARE, GALLIVAN, GOUNARDES, HARCK-
 HAM, PERSAUD, RHOADS, SCARCELLA-SPANTON, SKOUFIS -- read twice and
 ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on
 Codes -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first and
 second report, ordered to a third reading, amended and ordered
 reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading -- again
 amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of
 third reading

 AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to establishing the crimes of
 benefiting from a labor trafficking venture, benefiting from a sex
 trafficking venture and aggravated benefiting from a sex trafficking
 venture; to amend the social services law, in relation to establishing
 a right of action for victims of benefiting from a trafficking
 venture; and to amend the civil practice law and rules and the judici-
 ary law, in relation to reviving such actions otherwise barred by the
 existing statute of limitations, granting trial preference to such
 actions, and directing the chief administrator of the courts to
 promulgate rules for the timely adjudication of certain revived
 actions

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

 1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
 2 the "trafficking survivor recovery and accountability act".
 3 § 2. Legislative intent. The legislature finds that survivors of sexu-
 4 al exploitation and trafficking, as well as labor trafficking, including
 5 those induced through fraud, material misrepresentation, or knowing
 6 concealment, and where the exploitation or trafficking was sustained by
 7 third parties who derived financial, professional, or reputational bene-
 8 fit from its continuation, have been systematically denied meaningful
 9 civil redress under existing law, not because the underlying conduct was
 10 lawful, but because the redress available to such survivors was frag-
 11 mented across overlapping common-law theories of fraud, intentional
 12 infliction of emotional distress, civil conspiracy, and aiding and abet-
 13 ting tortious conduct, each subject to limitations periods that ran

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD15580-13-6

 S. 9960--B 2

 1 before survivors were positioned, psychologically or practically, to
 2 identify the conduct as actionable or to overcome the financial,
 3 social, and evidentiary obstacles and age and power disparities to seek-
 4 ing redress against the perpetrators and the networks that enabled or
 5 benefitted from their exploitation. Delayed disclosure in cases involv-
 6 ing fraudulent inducement and third-part