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92_SB0322
LRB9201490RCcd
1 AN ACT in relation to hotel safety.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Innkeeper Protection Act is amended by
5 adding Section 3.3 as follows:
6 (740 ILCS 90/3.3 new)
7 Sec. 3.3. Criminal background checks; hotel employees;
8 fingerprint identifiable keys.
9 (a) On and after the effective date of this amendatory
10 Act of the 92nd General Assembly, the Department of State
11 Police shall require a prospective hotel employee to
12 submit to a criminal background check before being
13 employed. If an applicant's criminal background check
14 indicates a criminal conviction, the applicant must
15 further submit to a fingerprint-based criminal background
16 check. The Department shall adopt rules to implement this
17 Section.
18 (b) Within one year after the effective date of this
19 amendatory Act of the 92nd General Assembly, each hotel in
20 existence in this State on the effective date shall replace
21 or install a lock on each hotel room with a fingerprint
22 identifiable electronic key. Each hotel constructed on or
23 after the effective date shall install a lock on each hotel
24 room with a fingerprint identifiable electronic key.