Full Text of HB2556 99th General Assembly
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning human trafficking.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Human | 5 | | Trafficking Resource Center Notice Act. | 6 | | Section 5. Posted notice required. | 7 | | (a) Each of the following businesses and other | 8 | | establishments shall, upon the availability of the model notice | 9 | | described in Section 15 of this Act, post a notice that | 10 | | complies with the requirements of this Act in a conspicuous | 11 | | place near the public entrance of the establishment or in | 12 | | another conspicuous location in clear view of the public and | 13 | | employees where similar notices are customarily posted: | 14 | | (1) On premise consumption retailer licensees under | 15 | | the Liquor Control Act of 1934 where the sale of alcoholic | 16 | | liquor is the principal
business carried on by the licensee | 17 | | at the premises and primary to the
sale of food. | 18 | | (2) Adult entertainment facilities, as defined in | 19 | | Section 5-1097.5 of the Counties Code. | 20 | | (3) Primary airports, as defined in Section 47102(16) | 21 | | of Title 49 of the United States Code. | 22 | | (4) Intercity passenger rail or light rail stations. | 23 | | (5) Bus stations. |
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| 1 | | (6) Truck stops. For purposes of this Act, "truck stop" | 2 | | means a privately-owned and operated facility that | 3 | | provides food, fuel, shower or other sanitary facilities, | 4 | | and lawful overnight truck parking. | 5 | | (7) Emergency rooms within general acute care | 6 | | hospitals. | 7 | | (8) Urgent care centers. | 8 | | (9) Farm labor contractors. For purposes of this Act, | 9 | | "farm labor contractor" means: (i) any person who for a fee | 10 | | or other valuable consideration recruits, supplies, or | 11 | | hires, or transports in connection therewith, into or | 12 | | within the State, any farmworker not of the contractor's | 13 | | immediate family to work for, or under the direction, | 14 | | supervision, or control of, a third person; or (ii) any | 15 | | person who for a fee or other valuable consideration | 16 | | recruits, supplies, or hires, or transports in connection | 17 | | therewith, into or within the State, any farmworker not of | 18 | | the contractor's immediate family, and who for a fee or | 19 | | other valuable consideration directs, supervises, or | 20 | | controls all or any part of the work of the farmworker or | 21 | | who disburses wages to the farmworker. However, "farm labor | 22 | | contractor" does not include full-time regular employees | 23 | | of food processing companies when the employees are engaged | 24 | | in recruiting for the companies if those employees are not | 25 | | compensated according to the number of farmworkers they | 26 | | recruit. |
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| 1 | | (10) Privately-operated job recruitment centers. | 2 | | (b) The Department of Transportation shall, upon the | 3 | | availability of the model notice described in Section 15 of | 4 | | this Act, post a notice that complies with the requirements of | 5 | | this Act in a conspicuous place near the public entrance of | 6 | | each roadside rest area or in another conspicuous location in | 7 | | clear view of the public and employees where similar notices | 8 | | are customarily posted. | 9 | | Section 10. Form of posted notice. | 10 | | (a) The notice required under this Act shall be at least 8 | 11 | | 1/2 inches by 11 inches in size, written in a 16-point font, | 12 | | and shall state the following: | 13 | | "If you or someone you know is being forced to engage in any | 14 | | activity and cannot leave, whether it is commercial sex, | 15 | | housework, farm work, construction, factory, retail, or | 16 | | restaurant work, or any other activity, call the National Human | 17 | | Trafficking Resource Center at 1-888-373-7888 to access help | 18 | | and services. | 19 | | Victims of slavery and human trafficking are protected under | 20 | | United States and Illinois law.
The hotline is: | 21 | | * Available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. | 22 | | * Toll-free. | 23 | | * Operated by nonprofit nongovernmental organizations. |
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| 1 | | * Anonymous and confidential. | 2 | | * Accessible in more than 160 languages. | 3 | | * Able to provide help, referral to services, training, | 4 | | and general information.". | 5 | | (b) The notice shall be printed in English, Spanish, and in | 6 | | one other language that is the most widely spoken language in | 7 | | the county where the establishment is located and for which | 8 | | translation is mandated by the federal Voting Rights Act, as | 9 | | applicable. This subsection does not require a business or | 10 | | other establishment in a county where a language other than | 11 | | English or Spanish is the most widely spoken language to print | 12 | | the notice in more than one language in addition to English and | 13 | | Spanish. | 14 | | Section 15. Model notice. No later than 6 months after the | 15 | | effective date of this Act, the Department of Human Services | 16 | | shall: (i) develop a model notice that complies with the | 17 | | requirements of Section 10 of this Act; or (ii) adopt a model | 18 | | notice developed by the Illinois Task Force on Human | 19 | | Trafficking that complies with the requirements of Section 10 | 20 | | of this Act. The Department of Human Services shall make the | 21 | | model notice available for download on the Department's | 22 | | Internet website. | 23 | | Section 20. Penalties. |
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| 1 | | (a) A business or establishment identified in subsection | 2 | | (a) of Section 5 that fails to comply with the requirements of | 3 | | this Act is liable for a civil penalty of $500 for a first | 4 | | offense and $1,000 for each subsequent offense. | 5 | | (b) The Department of Labor shall, in the course of | 6 | | regulating a business or establishment, monitor and enforce | 7 | | compliance with this Act. Upon discovering a violation, the | 8 | | Department of Labor shall provide the business or establishment | 9 | | with reasonable notice of noncompliance that informs the | 10 | | business or establishment that it is subject to a civil penalty | 11 | | if it does not correct the violation within 30 days from the | 12 | | date the notice is sent to the business or establishment. | 13 | | (c) If the Department of Labor verifies that the violation | 14 | | was not corrected within the 30-day period described in | 15 | | subsection (b), the Attorney General may bring an action to | 16 | | impose a civil penalty pursuant to this Section.
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