New York A 11323: 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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A11323 Summary:

BILL NOA11323A

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SAME ASSAME AS S09960-B

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SPONSORRules (Rosenthal)

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COSPNSRGlick, Bronson, Lavine, Hevesi, Shimsky, Kay, Burroughs, Weprin, Cunningham, Burdick, Dinowitz,
 Gallagher

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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.

Go to top A11323 Actions:

BILL NOA11323A

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05/11/2026referred to codes

05/27/2026amend (t) and recommit to codes

05/27/2026print number 11323a

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 11323--A

 IN ASSEMBLY

 May 11, 2026
 ___________

 Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Rosenthal)
 -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes -- committee
 discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
 to said committee

 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
 14 before survivors were positioned, psychologically or practically, to
 15 identify the conduct as actionable or to overcome the financial,
 16 social, and evidentiary obstacles and age and power disparities to seek-
 17 ing redress against the perpetrators and the networks that enabled or

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD15580-15-6

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 1 benefitted from their exploitation. Delayed disclosure in cases involv-
 2 ing fraudulent inducement and third-party enabler networks often follow
 3 dependency relationships engineered through misrepresentation, financial
 4 and reputational coercion that persists long after the conduct itself,
 5 and the systematic insulation of beneficiary parties through corporate,
 6 fiduciary, and trust structures designed to defeat accountability. This
 7 act consolidates and clarifies remedies that existed at best only in
 8 principle by providing a defined statutory framew