The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part of the
legislative instrument, were prepared by Ashley E. Menou.
DIGEST
SB 377 Engrossed 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.
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))