2018 New York Laws
SOS - Social Services
Article 10-D - Services for Victims of Human Trafficking
483-BB - Services for Victims of Human Trafficking.

§ 483-bb. Services for victims of human trafficking. (a) The office of
  temporary  and  disability assistance may coordinate with and assist law
  enforcement  agencies  and  district  attorney's   offices   to   access
  appropriate services for human trafficking victims.
(b) The office of temporary and disability assistance shall enter into
  contracts  with  non-government  organizations for providing services to
  victims of human trafficking as defined in subdivision  (a)  of  section
  four  hundred  eighty-three-aa  of  this article. Such services shall be
  culturally competent, to the extent practicable, and shall include,  but
  are not limited to, case management, emergency temporary housing, health
  care,  mental health counseling, drug addiction screening and treatment,
  language  interpretation  and  translation  services,  English  language
  instruction,  job  training  and  placement  assistance, post-employment
  services for job retention, and services to assist  the  individual  and
  any  of  his or her family members to establish a permanent residence in
  New York state or the United States. Such services  shall  also  include
  appropriate  voluntary  placement  in a short-term and/or long-term safe
  house, as such terms are defined under subdivision (c) or (d) of section
  four hundred eighty-three-aa of this article. Placement in a safe  house
  shall  be  available from the initial point of contact between the human
  trafficking victim and any of the following: law  enforcement;  a  local
  social  services  district;  or  a  social  or  legal services provider.
  Nothing in this article shall prevent placement in a  safe  house  of  a
  human  trafficking victim who is: (1) involved in a proceeding which has
  not reached final disposition, for the duration of such proceeding;  (2)
  not  involved in a pending proceeding; or (3) participating in a program
  for victims of domestic violence and has been identified as a victim  of
  human  trafficking. Nothing in this article shall preclude the office of
  temporary and  disability  assistance,  or  any  local  social  services
  district, from providing human trafficking victims who are United States
  citizens  or human trafficking victims who meet the criteria pursuant to
  section one hundred twenty-two of this  chapter  with  any  benefits  or
  services for which they otherwise may be eligible.
(c) An individual who is a victim of the conduct prohibited by section
  230.33,  230.34, 230.34-a, 135.35 or 135.37 of the penal law may bring a
  civil action against the perpetrator or whoever  knowingly  advances  or
  profits  from,  or  whoever should have known he or she was advancing or
  profiting from, an act in violation of section 230.33, 230.34, 230.34-a,
  135.35 or 135.37 of the penal law  to  recover  damages  and  reasonable
  attorney's fees.