HB5774 100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2017 and 2018
HB5774

Introduced , by Rep. Katie Stuart

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

New Act

Creates the Lodging Establishment Human Trafficking Recognition Training Act. Requires hotels and motels to train employees in the recognition of human trafficking and protocols for reporting observed human trafficking to the appropriate authority. Provides that the Department of Labor shall develop the curriculum for the training. Requires the training program to be developed by January 1, 2019 and training by hotels and motels to begin by June 1, 2019. Effective immediately.

FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning human trafficking recognition.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Lodging Services Human Trafficking Recognition Training Act.

Section 5. Definitions. In this Act:

"Department" means the Department of Labor.

"Human trafficking" means the deprivation or violation of the personal liberty of another with the intent to obtain forced labor or services, procure or sell the individual for commercial sex, or exploit the individual in obscene matter. Depriving or violating a person's liberty includes substantial and sustained restriction of another's liberty accomplished through fraud, deceit, coercion, violence, duress, menace, or threat of unlawful injury to the victim or to another person, under circumstances where the person receiving or apprehending the threat reasonably believes that it is likely that the person making the threat would carry it out.

"Lodging establishment" means an establishment classified as a hotel or motel in the 2017 North American Industry Classification System under code 721110 and an establishment classified as a casino hotel in the 2017 North American Industry Classification System under code 721120.

Section 10. Human trafficking recognition training. Beginning June 1, 2019, a lodging establishment must train its employees in the recognition of human trafficking and protocols for reporting observed human trafficking to the appropriate authority. The training shall comply with rules adopted by the Department.

Section 15. Human trafficking recognition training curriculum.

(a) The Department shall develop a curriculum for an approved human trafficking training recognition program. The human trafficking training recognition program shall include, at a minimum, all of the following:

(1) A definition of human trafficking and commercial exploitation of children.

(2) Guidance on how to identify individuals who are most at risk for human trafficking.

(3) The difference between human trafficking for purposes of labor and for purposes of sex as the trafficking relates to lodging establishments.

(4) Guidance on the role of lodging establishment employees in reporting and responding to instances of human trafficking.

The Department may approve the use of a privately developed human trafficking recognition training program that complies with the requirements of this Act and is created with the assistance of recognized anti-trafficking organizations.

(b) The Department shall obtain approval of the United States Department of Justice for the human trafficking recognition training program.

(c) The Department shall develop the human trafficking recognition training program and adopt rules necessary for the administration of this Act no later than January 1, 2019.

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.