SB3824 102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2021 and 2022
SB3824

Introduced 1/21/2022, by Sen. Scott M. Bennett

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

New Act

Creates the Health Care Services Human Trafficking Recognition Training Act. Provides that beginning June 1, 2023, any health care practitioner licensed to practice in the State shall undergo training in the recognition of human trafficking and protocols for reporting observed human trafficking to the appropriate authority. Provides that the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation shall develop a curriculum for an approved human trafficking training recognition program that shall be made publicly available at no cost on its website. Provides that the Department shall develop and publish the human trafficking recognition training program no later than June 1, 2023.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning regulation.

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 Health Care Services Human Trafficking Recognition Training Act.

Section 5. Definitions. As used in this Act:

"Department" means the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation.

"Health care practitioner" means any health care practitioner, including a physician, dentist, podiatric physician, advanced practice registered nurse, registered nurse, licensed practical nurse, physician assistant, clinical psychologist, clinical social worker, therapist, or counselor. "Health care practitioner" includes a medical office, health care clinic, health department, group practice, and any other organizational structure for a licensed professional to provide health care services. "Health care practitioner" does not include a health care facility.

"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.

Section 10. Human trafficking recognition training. Beginning June 1, 2023, any health care practitioner licensed to practice in this State shall undergo training in the recognition of human trafficking and protocols for reporting observed human trafficking to the appropriate authority. The health care practitioner must complete the training within 6 months after beginning employment in this State and every 2 years thereafter. The training shall be at least 20 minutes in duration.

Section 15. Human trafficking recognition training curriculum.

(a) A human trafficking training program in compliance with this Act 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 health care service 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 that shall be made publicly available at no cost on its website. 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 June 1, 2023.