Establishes crimes of benefiting from labor and sex trafficking ventures; allows civil actions for victims; revives barred actions; grants trial.
New York S09960 creates new crimes for benefiting from labor and sex trafficking ventures, including aggravated benefiting from a sex trafficking venture. It allows victims of these ventures to bring civil actions for damages, including punitive damages, against perpetrators and enablers. The bill revives civil actions otherwise barred by the statute of limitations and grants them trial preference. It also directs the chief administrator of the courts to create rules for the timely adjudication of revived actions.
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