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| Public Act 101-0499 | ||||
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AN ACT concerning human trafficking recognition.
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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represented in the General Assembly:
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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 Human Services. | ||||
"Employee" means a person employed by a lodging | ||||
establishment who has recurring interactions with the public, | ||||
including, but not limited to, an employee who works in a | ||||
reception area, performs housekeeping duties, helps customers | ||||
in moving their possessions, or transports by vehicle customers | ||||
of the lodging establishment. | ||||
"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.
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"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, 2020, a lodging establishment shall provide | ||
its employees with training in the recognition of human | ||
trafficking and protocols for reporting observed human | ||
trafficking to the appropriate authority. The employees must | ||
complete the training within 6 months after beginning | ||
employment in such role with the lodging establishment and | ||
every 2 years thereafter, if still employed by the lodging | ||
establishment. The training shall be at least 20 minutes in | ||
duration. | ||
Section 15. Human trafficking recognition training | ||
curriculum. | ||
(a) A lodging establishment may use its own human | ||
trafficking training program or that of a third party and be in | ||
full compliance with this Act if the human trafficking training | ||
program includes, 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; and | ||
(4) guidance on the role of lodging establishment | ||
employees in reporting and responding to instances of human | ||
trafficking. | ||
(b) The Department shall develop a curriculum for an | ||
approved human trafficking training recognition program which | ||
shall be used by a lodging establishment that does not | ||
administer its own human trafficking recognition program as | ||
described in subsection (a). The human trafficking training | ||
recognition program developed by the Department 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; and | ||
(4) guidance on the role of lodging establishment | ||
employees in reporting and responding to instances of human | ||
trafficking. | ||
The Department may consult the United States Department of | ||
Justice for the human trafficking recognition training program | ||
developed under this subsection. | ||
The Department shall develop and publish the human | ||
trafficking recognition training program described in this | ||
subsection no later than July 1, 2020.
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Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||
becoming law.
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