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2016 Regular Session
SENATE BILL NO. 377
BY SENATOR PEACOCK
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE. Requires National Human Trafficking Resource Center hotline
information to be posted at hotels. (8/1/16)
1 AN ACT
2 To amend and reenact R.S. 15:541.1(A), relative to the posting of the National Human
3 Trafficking Resource Center hotline; to require hotels to post information regarding
4 the hotline; to provide for the location of the posting; and to provide for related
5 matters.
6 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
7 Section 1. R.S. 15:541.1(A) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:
8 ยง541.1. Posting of the National Human Trafficking Resource Center hotline;
9 content; languages; notice; civil penalty
10 A. All of the following establishments shall be required to post information
11 regarding the National Human Trafficking Resource Center hotline:
12 (1) Every massage parlor, spa, or hotel that has been found to be a public
13 nuisance for prostitution as set forth in R.S. 13:4711.
14 (2) Every strip club or other sexually-oriented business as set forth in R.S.
15 37:3558(C).
16 (3) Every full service fuel facility adjacent to an interstate highway or
17 highway rest stop.
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1 (4) Every outpatient abortion facility as defined by R.S. 40:2175.3.
2 (5) Every hotel shall post the information in the same location where
3 other employee notices required by state or federal law are posted.
4 (a) For purposes of this Paragraph, "hotel" shall mean and include any
5 establishment, both public and private, engaged in the business of furnishing or
6 providing rooms and overnight camping facilities intended or designed for
7 dwelling, lodging, or sleeping purposes to transient guests where such
8 establishment consists of thirty or more guest rooms and does not encompass
9 any hospital, convalescent or nursing home or sanitarium, or any hotel-like
10 facility operated by or in connection with a hospital or medical clinic providing
11 rooms exclusively for patients and their families.
12 (b) For purposes of this Paragraph, "hotel" shall not include camp and
13 retreat facilities owned and operated by nonprofit organizations exempt from
14 federal income tax under Section 501(a) of the Internal Revenue Code as an
15 organization described in Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code
16 provided that the net revenue derived from the organization's property is
17 devoted wholly to the nonprofit organization's purposes.
18 * * *
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Ashley E. Menou.
DIGEST
SB 377 Original 2016 Regular Session Peacock
Present law requires information regarding the National Human Trafficking Resource
Hotline to be posted in the following establishments:
(1)Every massage parlor, spa, or hotel that has been found to be a public nuisance for
prostitution as set forth in R.S. 13:4711.
(2)Every strip club or other sexually-oriented business as set forth in R.S. 37:3558(C).
(3)Every full service fuel facility adjacent to an interstate highway or highway rest stop.
(4)Every outpatient abortion facility as defined by R.S. 40:2175.3.
Present law requires the notice to be no smaller than eight and one-half inches by eleven
inches, contain typed bold print in not less than 14 point font, and be printed in English,
Louisiana French, Spanish, and any other languages the ATC commissioner requires.
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Present law imposes a penalty for each violation to be enforced by departments exercising
regulatory control or authority over the establishments required to post the hotline
information.
Proposed law retains present law and adds that hotels must post information of the National
Human Trafficking Hotline in the same location where other employee notices required by
law are posted.
Proposed law defines hotel as any establishment, both public and private, engaged in the
business of furnishing or providing rooms and overnight camping facilities intended or
designed for dwelling, lodging, or sleeping purposes to transient guests where such
establishment consists of thirty or more guest rooms and does not encompass any hospital,
convalescent or nursing home or sanitarium, or any hotel-like facility operated by or in
connection with a hospital or medical clinic providing rooms exclusively for patients and
their families. The word "hotel" used herein shall not include camp and retreat facilities
owned and operated by nonprofit organizations exempt from federal income tax under
Section 501(a) of the Internal Revenue Code as an organization described in Section
501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code provided that the net revenue derived from the
organization's property is devoted wholly to the nonprofit organization's purposes.
Effective August 1, 2016.
(Amends R.S. 15:541.1(A))
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