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| 1 | AN ACT concerning human trafficking recognition.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the | ||||||
| 5 | Lodging Services Human Trafficking Recognition Training Act. | ||||||
| 6 | Section 5. Definitions. In this Act: | ||||||
| 7 | "Department" means the Department of Human Services. | ||||||
| 8 | "Employee" means a person employed by a lodging | ||||||
| 9 | establishment who has recurring interactions with the public, | ||||||
| 10 | including, but not limited to, an employee who works in a | ||||||
| 11 | reception area, performs housekeeping duties, helps customers | ||||||
| 12 | in moving their possessions, or transports by vehicle customers | ||||||
| 13 | of the lodging establishment. | ||||||
| 14 | "Human trafficking" means the deprivation or violation of | ||||||
| 15 | the personal liberty of another with the intent to obtain | ||||||
| 16 | forced labor or services, procure or sell the individual for | ||||||
| 17 | commercial sex, or exploit the individual in obscene matter. | ||||||
| 18 | Depriving or violating a person's liberty includes substantial | ||||||
| 19 | and sustained restriction of another's liberty accomplished | ||||||
| 20 | through fraud, deceit, coercion, violence, duress, menace, or | ||||||
| 21 | threat of unlawful injury to the victim or to another person, | ||||||
| 22 | under circumstances where the person receiving or apprehending | ||||||
| 23 | the threat reasonably believes that it is likely that the | ||||||
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| 1 | person making the threat would carry it out.
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| 2 | "Lodging establishment" means an establishment classified | ||||||
| 3 | as a hotel or motel in the 2017 North American Industry | ||||||
| 4 | Classification System under code 721110, and an establishment | ||||||
| 5 | classified as a casino hotel in the 2017 North American | ||||||
| 6 | Industry Classification System under code 721120. | ||||||
| 7 | Section 10. Human trafficking recognition training. | ||||||
| 8 | Beginning June 1, 2020, a lodging establishment shall provide | ||||||
| 9 | its employees with training in the recognition of human | ||||||
| 10 | trafficking and protocols for reporting observed human | ||||||
| 11 | trafficking to the appropriate authority. The employees must | ||||||
| 12 | complete the training within 6 months after beginning | ||||||
| 13 | employment in such role with the lodging establishment and | ||||||
| 14 | every 2 years thereafter, if still employed by the lodging | ||||||
| 15 | establishment. The training shall be at least 20 minutes in | ||||||
| 16 | duration. | ||||||
| 17 | Section 15. Human trafficking recognition training | ||||||
| 18 | curriculum. | ||||||
| 19 | (a) A lodging establishment may use its own human | ||||||
| 20 | trafficking training program or that of a third party and be in | ||||||
| 21 | full compliance with this Act if the human trafficking training | ||||||
| 22 | program includes, at a minimum, all of the following: | ||||||
| 23 | (1) a definition of human trafficking and commercial | ||||||
| 24 | exploitation of children; | ||||||
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| 1 | (2) guidance on how to identify individuals who are | ||||||
| 2 | most at risk for human trafficking; | ||||||
| 3 | (3) the difference between human trafficking for | ||||||
| 4 | purposes of labor and for purposes of sex as the | ||||||
| 5 | trafficking relates to lodging establishments; and | ||||||
| 6 | (4) guidance on the role of lodging establishment | ||||||
| 7 | employees in reporting and responding to instances of human | ||||||
| 8 | trafficking. | ||||||
| 9 | (b) The Department shall develop a curriculum for an | ||||||
| 10 | approved human trafficking training recognition program which | ||||||
| 11 | shall be used by a lodging establishment that does not | ||||||
| 12 | administer its own human trafficking recognition program as | ||||||
| 13 | described in subsection (a). The human trafficking training | ||||||
| 14 | recognition program developed by the Department shall include, | ||||||
| 15 | at a minimum, all of the following: | ||||||
| 16 | (1) a definition of human trafficking and commercial | ||||||
| 17 | exploitation of children; | ||||||
| 18 | (2) guidance on how to identify individuals who are | ||||||
| 19 | most at risk for human trafficking; | ||||||
| 20 | (3) the difference between human trafficking for | ||||||
| 21 | purposes of labor and for purposes of sex as the | ||||||
| 22 | trafficking relates to lodging establishments; and | ||||||
| 23 | (4) guidance on the role of lodging establishment | ||||||
| 24 | employees in reporting and responding to instances of human | ||||||
| 25 | trafficking. | ||||||
| 26 | The Department may consult the United States Department of | ||||||
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| 1 | Justice for the human trafficking recognition training program | ||||||
| 2 | developed under this subsection. | ||||||
| 3 | The Department shall develop and publish the human | ||||||
| 4 | trafficking recognition training program described in this | ||||||
| 5 | subsection no later than July 1, 2020.
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| 6 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
| 7 | becoming law.
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