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Public Act 094-0009


 

Public Act 0009 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY


 


 
Public Act 094-0009
 
HB1469 Enrolled LRB094 09450 RLC 39698 b

    AN ACT concerning criminal law.
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
 
    Section 5. The Criminal Code of 1961 is amended by adding
Article 10A as follows:
 
    (720 ILCS 5/Art. 10A heading new)
ARTICLE 10A.
TRAFFICKING OF PERSONS AND INVOLUNTARY SERVITUDE

 
    (720 ILCS 5/10A-5 new)
    Sec. 10A-5. Definitions. In this Article:
    (1) "Intimidation" has the meaning prescribed in Section
12-6.
    (2) "Commercial sexual activity" means any sex act on
account of which anything of value is given, promised to, or
received by any person.
    (3) "Financial harm" includes intimidation that brings
about financial loss, criminal usury, or employment contracts
that violate the Frauds Act.
    (4) "Forced labor or services" means labor or services that
are performed or provided by another person and are obtained or
maintained through:
        (A) any scheme, plan, or pattern intending to cause or
    threatening to cause serious harm to any person;
        (B) an actor's physically restraining or threatening
    to physically restrain another person;
        (C) an actor's abusing or threatening to abuse the law
    or legal process;
        (D) an actor's knowingly destroying, concealing,
    removing, confiscating, or possessing any actual or
    purported passport or other immigration document, or any
    other actual or purported government identification
    document, of another person;
        (E) an actor's blackmail; or
        (F) an actor's causing or threatening to cause
    financial harm to or exerting financial control over any
    person.
    (5) "Labor" means work of economic or financial value.
    (6) "Maintain" means, in relation to labor or services, to
secure continued performance thereof, regardless of any
initial agreement on the part of the victim to perform such
type of service.
    (7) "Obtain" means, in relation to labor or services, to
secure performance thereof.
    (8) "Services" means a relationship between a person and
the actor in which the person performs activities under the
supervision of or for the benefit of the actor. Commercial
sexual activity and sexually-explicit performances are forms
of "services" under this Section. Nothing in this provision
should be construed to legitimize or legalize prostitution.
    (9) "Sexually-explicit performance" means a live,
recorded, broadcast (including over the Internet) or public act
or show intended to arouse or satisfy the sexual desires or
appeal to the prurient interests of patrons.
    (10) "Trafficking victim" means a person subjected to the
practices set forth in subsection (a) of Section 10A-10
(involuntary servitude) or subsection (b) of Section 10A-10
(sexual servitude of a minor), or transported in violation of
subsection (c) of Section 10A-10 (trafficking of persons for
forced labor or services).
 
    (720 ILCS 5/10A-10 new)
    Sec. 10A-10. Criminal provisions.
    (a) Involuntary servitude. Whoever knowingly subjects,
attempts to subject, or engages in a conspiracy to subject
another person to forced labor or services shall be punished as
follows, subject to subsection (d):
        (1) by causing or threatening to cause physical harm to
    any person, is guilty of a Class X felony;
        (2) by physically restraining or threatening to
    physically restrain another person, is guilty of a Class 1
    felony;
        (3) by abusing or threatening to abuse the law or legal
    process, is guilty of a Class 2 felony;
        (4) by knowingly destroying, concealing, removing,
    confiscating or possessing any actual or purported
    passport or other immigration document, or any other actual
    or purported government identification document, of
    another person, is guilty of a Class 3 felony;
        (5) by using intimidation, or using or threatening to
    cause financial harm to or by exerting financial control
    over any person, is guilty of a Class 4 felony.
    (b) Involuntary servitude of a minor. Whoever knowingly
recruits, entices, harbors, transports, provides, or obtains
by any means, or attempts to recruit, entice, harbor, provide,
or obtain by any means, another person under 18 years of age,
knowing that the minor will engage in commercial sexual
activity, a sexually-explicit performance, or the production
of pornography, or causes or attempts to cause a minor to
engage in commercial sexual activity, a sexually-explicit
performance, or the production of pornography, shall be
punished as follows, subject to the provisions of subsection
(d):
        (1) In cases involving a minor between the ages of 17
    and 18 years, not involving overt force or threat, the
    defendant is guilty of a Class 1 felony.
        (2) In cases in which the minor had not attained the
    age of 17 years, not involving overt force or threat, the
    defendant is guilty of a Class X felony.
        (3) In cases in which the violation involved overt
    force or threat, the defendant is guilty of a Class X
    felony.
    (c) Trafficking of persons for forced labor or services.
Whoever knowingly: (1) recruits, entices, harbors, transports,
provides, or obtains by any means, or attempts to recruit,
entice, harbor, transport, provide, or obtain by any means,
another person, intending or knowing that the person will be
subjected to forced labor or services; or (2) benefits,
financially or by receiving anything of value, from
participation in a venture which has engaged in an act
described in violation of paragraphs (a) or (b) of this
Section, subject to the provisions of subsection (d), is guilty
of a Class 1 felony.
    (d) Sentencing enhancements.
        (1) Statutory maximum; sexual assault and extreme
    violence. If the violation of this Article involves
    kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated criminal
    sexual assault or the attempt to commit aggravated criminal
    sexual assault, or an attempt to commit first degree
    murder, the defendant is guilty of a Class X felony.
        (2) Sentencing considerations within statutory
    maximums.
            (A) Bodily injury. If, pursuant to a violation of
        this Article, a victim suffered bodily injury, the
        defendant may be sentenced to an extended term sentence
        under Section 5-8-2 of the Unified Code of Corrections.
        The sentencing court must take into account the time in
        which the victim was held in servitude, with increased
        penalties for cases in which the victim was held for
        between 180 days and one year, and increased penalties
        for cases in which the victim was held for more than
        one year.
            (B) Number of victims. In determining sentences
        within statutory maximums, the sentencing court should
        take into account the number of victims, and may
        provide for substantially-increased sentences in cases
        involving more than 10 victims.
    (e) Restitution. Restitution is mandatory under this
Article. In addition to any other amount of loss identified,
the court shall order restitution including the greater of (1)
the gross income or value to the defendant of the victim's
labor or services or (2) the value of the victim's labor as
guaranteed under the Minimum Wage Law and overtime provisions
of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) or the Minimum Wage Law,
whichever is greater.
    (f) Trafficking victim services. Subject to the
availability of funds, the Department of Human Services may
provide or fund emergency services and assistance to
individuals who are victims of one or more offenses defined in
this Article 10A.
 
    (720 ILCS 5/10A-15 new)
    Sec. 10A-15. Forfeitures.
    (a) A person who commits the offense of involuntary
servitude, involuntary servitude of a minor, or trafficking of
persons for forced labor or services under Section 10A-10 of
this Code shall forfeit to the State of Illinois any profits or
proceeds and any interest or property he or she has acquired or
maintained in violation of Section 10A-10 of this Code that the
sentencing court determines, after a forfeiture hearing, to
have been acquired or maintained as a result of maintaining a
person in involuntary servitude or participating in
trafficking in persons for forced labor or services.
    (b) The court shall, upon petition by the Attorney General
or State's Attorney at any time following sentencing, conduct a
hearing to determine whether any property or property interest
is subject to forfeiture under this Section. At the forfeiture
hearing the people shall have the burden of establishing, by a
preponderance of the evidence, that property or property
interests are subject to forfeiture under this Section.
    (c) In any action brought by the People of the State of
Illinois under this Section, wherein any restraining order,
injunction, or prohibition or any other action in connection
with any property or interest subject to forfeiture under this
Section is sought, the circuit court presiding over the trial
of the person or persons charged with involuntary servitude,
involuntary servitude of a minor, or trafficking in persons for
forced labor or services shall first determine whether there is
probable cause to believe that the person or persons so charged
have committed the offense of involuntary servitude,
involuntary servitude of a minor, or trafficking in persons for
forced labor or services and whether the property or interest
is subject to forfeiture pursuant to this Section. In order to
make such a determination, prior to entering any such order,
the court shall conduct a hearing without a jury, wherein the
People shall establish that there is: (i) probable cause that
the person or persons so charged have committed the offense of
involuntary servitude, involuntary servitude of a minor, or
trafficking in persons for forced labor or services and (ii)
probable cause that any property or interest may be subject to
forfeiture pursuant to this Section. The hearing may be
conducted simultaneously with a preliminary hearing, if the
prosecution is commenced by information or complaint, or by
motion of the People, at any stage in the proceedings. The
court may accept a finding of probable cause at a preliminary
hearing following the filing of an information charging the
offense of involuntary servitude, involuntary servitude of a
minor, or trafficking in persons for forced labor or services
or the return of an indictment by a grand jury charging the
offense of involuntary servitude, involuntary servitude of a
minor, or trafficking in persons for forced labor or services
as sufficient evidence of probable cause as provided in item
(i) of this subsection (c). Upon such a finding, the circuit
court shall enter such restraining order, injunction or
prohibition, or shall take such other action in connection with
any such property or other interest subject to forfeiture, as
is necessary to insure that such property is not removed from
the jurisdiction of the court, concealed, destroyed, or
otherwise disposed of by the owner of that property or interest
prior to a forfeiture hearing under this Section. The Attorney
General or State's Attorney shall file a certified copy of the
restraining order, injunction, or other prohibition with the
recorder of deeds or registrar of titles of each county where
any such property of the defendant may be located. No such
injunction, restraining order, or other prohibition shall
affect the rights of any bona fide purchaser, mortgagee,
judgment creditor, or other lien holder arising prior to the
date of such filing. The court may, at any time, upon verified
petition by the defendant or an innocent owner or innocent bona
fide third party lien holder who neither had knowledge of, nor
consented to, the illegal act or omission, conduct a hearing to
release all or portions of any such property or interest that
the court previously determined to be subject to forfeiture or
subject to any restraining order, injunction, or prohibition or
other action. The court may release such property to the
defendant or innocent owner or innocent bona fide third party
lien holder who neither had knowledge of, nor consented to, the
illegal act or omission for good cause shown and within the
sound discretion of the court.
    (d) Upon conviction of a person of involuntary servitude,
involuntary servitude of a minor, or trafficking in persons for
forced labor or services, the court shall authorize the
Attorney General to seize all property or other interest
declared forfeited under this Section upon such terms and
conditions as the court shall deem proper.
    (e) All monies forfeited and the sale proceeds of all other
property forfeited and seized under this Section shall be
distributed as follows:
        (1) one-half shall be divided equally among all State
    agencies and units of local government whose officers or
    employees conducted the investigation that resulted in the
    forfeiture; and
        (2) one-half shall be deposited into the Violent Crime
    Victims Assistance Fund and targeted to services for
    victims of the offenses of involuntary servitude,
    involuntary servitude of a minor, and trafficking of
    persons for forced labor or services.
 
    (720 ILCS 5/10A-20 new)
    Sec. 10A-20. Certification. The Attorney General, State's
Attorneys, or any law enforcement official shall certify in
writing to the United States Department of Justice or other
federal agency, such as the United States Department of
Homeland Security, that an investigation or prosecution under
this Article 10A has begun and the individual who is a likely
victim of a crime described in this Article 10A is willing to
cooperate or is cooperating with the investigation to enable
the individual, if eligible under federal law, to qualify for
an appropriate special immigrant visa and to access available
federal benefits. Cooperation with law enforcement shall not be
required of victims of a crime described in this Article 10A
who are under 18 years of age. This certification shall be made
available to the victim and his or her designated legal
representative.

Effective Date: 1/1/2006