Bill Text: IL HB3101 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Chaptered


Bill Title: Creates the Lodging Establishment Human Trafficking Recognition Training Act. Requires hotels and motels to train employees in the recognition of human trafficking and protocols for reporting observed human trafficking to the appropriate authority. Provides that the Department of Labor shall develop the curriculum for the training. Requires the training program to be developed by January 1, 2020 and training by hotels and motels to begin by June 1, 2020. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 35-7)

Status: (Passed) 2019-08-23 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 101-0499 [HB3101 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-HB3101-Chaptered.html



Public Act 101-0499
HB3101 EnrolledLRB101 06940 JLS 51973 b
AN ACT concerning human trafficking recognition.
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
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.
"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.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.
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