Bill Text: IL SB0519 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the State Prohibition of Goods from Forced Labor Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning policy.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2019-01-09 - Session Sine Die [SB0519 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2017-SB0519-Introduced.html

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100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2017 and 2018 SB0519 Introduced 1/24/2017, by Sen. John J. Cullerton SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
30 ILCS 583/5
Amends the State Prohibition of Goods from Forced Labor Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning policy.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning finance.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The State Prohibition of Goods from Forced Labor
Act is amended by changing Section 5 as follows:
(30 ILCS 583/5)
Sec. 5. Policy. The The General Assembly hereby finds and
declares as follows:
(a) The people of Illinois do not support the import of any
goods made by forced, convict, or indentured labor, not only
because it is a cruel suppression of the human right of free
labor and employment practices, but also because it creates an
unfair trade advantage for the forced, convict, or indentured
labor country.
(b) The federal Tariff Act of 1930, while prohibiting the
importation of any goods produced in whole or in part by
forced, convict, or indentured labor, does not require
importers to provide certificates of origin at the time of
importation to affirm and guarantee no forced, convict, or
indentured labor content.
(c) The federal Tariff Act of 1930 also does not require
the United States Customs Service to have an active,
self-initiated foreign surveillance program of detecting

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forced, convict, or indentured labor-made goods and preventing
their entry into the United States, but relies primarily upon
complaints made by the public or other interested groups.
(d) The State of Illinois wholeheartedly supports the
prohibition on imports produced in whole or in part by forced,
convict, or indentured labor and shall not knowingly acquire
any of those goods.
(Source: P.A. 93-307, eff. 1-1-04.)