Bill Text: IL HB4878 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the School Code to require a school district to include in its curriculum a unit of instruction in grades 6 through 12 on the issue of human trafficking. Sets forth what the instruction must include. Amends the Human Trafficking Resource Center Notice Act. Requires the administrator of a school to post notice in a location in view of students in any of grades 6 through 12. Effective immediately.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-06-23 - Rule 19(b) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB4878 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-HB4878-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 HB4878 Introduced , by Rep. Stephanie A. Kifowit SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
105 ILCS 5/27-23.15 new
775 ILCS 50/5
Amends the School Code to require a school district to include in its curriculum a unit of instruction in grades 6 through 12 on the issue of human trafficking. Sets forth what the instruction must include. Amends the Human Trafficking Resource Center Notice Act. Requires the administrator of a school to post notice in a location in view of students in any of grades 6 through 12. Effective immediately.
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AN ACT concerning education.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The School Code is amended by adding Section
27-23.15 as follows:
(105 ILCS 5/27-23.15 new)
Sec. 27-23.15. Human trafficking. Every school district
shall include in its curriculum a unit of instruction in grades
6 through 12 on the issue of human trafficking. The instruction
may be included in those courses that the school district
chooses. The instruction shall include, but is not limited to,
the following:
(1) a definition of human trafficking;
(2) how to recognize the signs of human trafficking;
(3) where to report suspicions of human trafficking;
(4) how to assist victims of human trafficking; and
(5) how to prevent becoming a victim of human
trafficking.
Each school board shall determine the minimum amount of
instructional time that qualifies as a unit of instruction
under this Section.
Section 10. The Human Trafficking Resource Center Notice

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Act is amended by changing Section 5 as follows:
(775 ILCS 50/5)
Sec. 5. Posted notice required.
(a) Each of the following businesses and other
establishments shall, upon the availability of the model notice
described in Section 15 of this Act, post a notice that
complies with the requirements of this Act in a conspicuous
place near the public entrance of the establishment or in
another conspicuous location in clear view of the public and
employees where similar notices are customarily posted:
(1) On premise consumption retailer licensees under
the Liquor Control Act of 1934 where the sale of alcoholic
liquor is the principal business carried on by the licensee
at the premises and primary to the sale of food.
(2) Adult entertainment facilities, as defined in
Section 5-1097.5 of the Counties Code.
(3) Primary airports, as defined in Section 47102(16)
of Title 49 of the United States Code.
(4) Intercity passenger rail or light rail stations.
(5) Bus stations.
(6) Truck stops. For purposes of this Act, "truck stop"
means a privately-owned and operated facility that
provides food, fuel, shower or other sanitary facilities,
and lawful overnight truck parking.
(7) Emergency rooms within general acute care

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hospitals.
(8) Urgent care centers.
(9) Farm labor contractors. For purposes of this Act,
"farm labor contractor" means: (i) any person who for a fee
or other valuable consideration recruits, supplies, or
hires, or transports in connection therewith, into or
within the State, any farmworker not of the contractor's
immediate family to work for, or under the direction,
supervision, or control of, a third person; or (ii) any
person who for a fee or other valuable consideration
recruits, supplies, or hires, or transports in connection
therewith, into or within the State, any farmworker not of
the contractor's immediate family, and who for a fee or
other valuable consideration directs, supervises, or
controls all or any part of the work of the farmworker or
who disburses wages to the farmworker. However, "farm labor
contractor" does not include full-time regular employees
of food processing companies when the employees are engaged
in recruiting for the companies if those employees are not
compensated according to the number of farmworkers they
recruit.
(10) Privately-operated job recruitment centers.
(11) Massage establishments. As used in this Act,
"massage establishment" means a place of business in which
any method of massage therapy is administered or practiced
for compensation. "Massage establishment" does not

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include: an establishment at which persons licensed under
the Medical Practice Act of 1987, the Illinois Physical
Therapy Act, or the Naprapathic Practice Act engage in
practice under one of those Acts; a business owned by a
sole licensed massage therapist; or a cosmetology or
esthetics salon registered under the Barber, Cosmetology,
Esthetics, Hair Braiding, and Nail Technology Act of 1985.
(b) The Department of Transportation shall, upon the
availability of the model notice described in Section 15 of
this Act, post a notice that complies with the requirements of
this Act in a conspicuous place near the public entrance of
each roadside rest area or in another conspicuous location in
clear view of the public and employees where similar notices
are customarily posted.
(c) The owner of a hotel or motel shall, upon the
availability of the model notice described in Section 15 of
this Act, post a notice that complies with the requirements of
this Act in a conspicuous and accessible place in or about the
premises in clear view of the employees where similar notices
are customarily posted.
(d) The organizer of a public gathering or special event
that is conducted on property open to the public and requires
the issuance of a permit from the unit of local government
shall post a notice that complies with the requirements of this
Act in a conspicuous and accessible place in or about the
premises in clear view of the public and employees where

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similar notices are customarily posted.
(e) The administrator of a public or private elementary
school or public or private secondary school shall post a
printout of the downloadable notice provided by the Department
of Human Services under Section 15 that complies with the
requirements of this Act in a conspicuous and accessible place
chosen by the administrator in the administrative office or
another location in view of school employees and in a location
in view of students in any of grades 6 through 12. School
districts and personnel are not subject to the penalties
provided under subsection (a) of Section 20.
(f) The owner of an establishment registered under the
Tattoo and Body Piercing Establishment Registration Act shall
post a notice that complies with the requirements of this Act
in a conspicuous and accessible place in clear view of
establishment employees.
(Source: P.A. 99-99, eff. 1-1-16; 99-565, eff. 7-1-17; 100-671,
eff. 1-1-19.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.