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2016 Regular Session
SENATE BILL NO. 377
BY SENATORS PEACOCK, ALARIO, APPEL, BARROW, BROWN, CARTER, GATTI,
HEWITT, JOHNS, LONG, MILKOVICH, MILLS, MIZELL,
MORRELL, GARY SMITH, TARVER, THOMPSON, WARD AND
WHITE
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; to provide for definitions; and
5 to provide for related 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 full-service fuel facility adjacent to an interstate
17 highway or 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 as defined in this Paragraph. Each hotel shall post the
3 information in the same location where other employee notices required by state
4 or federal law are posted.
5 (a) For purposes of this Paragraph, "hotel" shall mean and include any
6 establishment, both public and private, engaged in the business of furnishing or
7 providing rooms and overnight camping facilities intended or designed for
8 dwelling, lodging, or sleeping purposes to transient guests and does not
9 encompass any hospital, convalescent or nursing home or sanitarium, or any
10 hotel-like facility operated by or in connection with a hospital or medical clinic
11 providing rooms exclusively for patients and their families.
12 (b) For purposes of this Paragraph, "hotel" shall not include bed and
13 breakfasts or camp and retreat facilities owned and operated by nonprofit
14 organizations exempt from federal income tax under Section 501(a) of the
15 Internal Revenue Code as an organization described in Section 501(c)(3) of the
16 Internal Revenue Code provided that the net revenue derived from the
17 organization's property is devoted wholly to the nonprofit organization's
18 purposes.
19 (c) For purposes of this Paragraph, "bed and breakfast" shall mean a
20 lodging facility having no more than ten guest rooms where transient guests are
21 fed and lodged for pay.
22 * * *
The original instrument was prepared by Ashley Menou. The following
digest, which does not constitute a part of the legislative instrument, was
prepared by Thomas L. Tyler.
DIGEST
SB 377 Reengrossed 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.
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(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.
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 requirement that hotels 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 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.
Proposed law provides that the term "hotel" does not include any bed and breakfasts, or
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.
Proposed law defines "bed and breakfast" as a lodging facility having no more than ten guest
rooms where transient guests are fed and lodged for pay.
Effective August 1, 2016.
(Amends R.S. 15:541.1(A))
Summary of Amendments Adopted by Senate
Senate Floor Amendments to engrossed bill
1. Removes 30 or more room limitation in the definition of "hotel".
2. Excludes "bed and breakfasts" from the definition of "hotel".
3. Adds definition of "bed and breakfast".
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