Bill Text: IL HB1260 | 2025-2026 | 104th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Taxi Safety Act of 2007. Provides that taxi drivers shall complete the human trafficking recognition training program published by the Department of Human Services. Amends the Lodging Services Human Trafficking Recognition Training Act. Changes the name of the Act to the Human Trafficking Recognition Training Act. Provides that a bar, barber shop, beauty salon, or school shall provide its employees with training in the recognition of human trafficking and protocols for reporting observed human trafficking to the appropriate authority. Defines terms. Makes conforming changes.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-10 - Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Jed Davis [HB1260 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2025-HB1260-Introduced.html

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104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 HB1260 Introduced , by Rep. Jed Davis SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
625 ILCS 55/5
820 ILCS 95/1
820 ILCS 95/5
820 ILCS 95/10
820 ILCS 95/15
Amends the Taxi Safety Act of 2007. Provides that taxi drivers shall complete the human trafficking recognition training program published by the Department of Human Services. Amends the Lodging Services Human Trafficking Recognition Training Act. Changes the name of the Act to the Human Trafficking Recognition Training Act. Provides that a bar, barber shop, beauty salon, or school shall provide its employees with training in the recognition of human trafficking and protocols for reporting observed human trafficking to the appropriate authority. Defines terms. Makes conforming changes.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning employment.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Taxi Safety Act of 2007 is amended by
changing Section 5 as follows:
(625 ILCS 55/5)
Sec. 5. Requirements for the operation of taxicabs.
(a) The taxi driver's picture, the taxi driver's license
or registration number, and the taxicab medallion number or an
exterior identification number must be posted in a visible
location in each cab.
(b) There must be posted in a visible location in each
taxicab a telephone number for a passenger to call if the taxi
driver is operating the taxicab in a reckless manner.
(c) If a taxi driver collides with a pedestrian while
operating a taxicab, resulting in bodily injury, then any
responding law enforcement officers must test the taxi driver
for drug and alcohol use.
(d) The taxi driver shall complete the human trafficking
recognition training program published by the Department of
Human Services as described in the Human Trafficking
Recognition Training Act.
(Source: P.A. 95-598, eff. 6-1-08.)

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Section 10. The Lodging Services Human Trafficking
Recognition Training Act is amended by changing Sections 1, 5,
10, and 15 as follows:
(820 ILCS 95/1)
Sec. 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Lodging
Services Human Trafficking Recognition Training Act.
(Source: P.A. 101-18, eff. 6-20-19; 101-499, eff. 8-23-19.)
(820 ILCS 95/5)
Sec. 5. Definitions. In this Act:
"Bar" means an establishment that is devoted to the
serving of alcoholic beverages for consumption by guests on
the premises and that derives no more than 10% of its gross
revenue from the sale of food consumed on the premises. "Bar"
includes, but is not limited to, taverns, nightclubs, cocktail
lounges, adult entertainment facilities, and cabarets.
"Barber shop" means an establishment classified as a
barber shop in the 2022 North American Industry Classification
System under code 812111.
"Beauty salon" means an establishment classified as a
beauty salon or a salon in the 2022 North American Industry
Classification System under code 812112.
"Department" means the Department of Human Services.
"Employee" means a person employed by a lodging

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establishment, restaurant, truck stop, bar, barber shop,
beauty salon, or school. "Employee" has the same application
and meaning as that provided in Sections 1 and 2 of the
Illinois Wage Payment and Collection Act who has recurring
interactions with the public, including, but not limited to,
an employee who works in a reception area, performs
housekeeping duties, helps customers in moving their
possessions, or transports by vehicle customers of the lodging
establishment.
"Human trafficking" means the deprivation or violation of
the personal liberty of another with the intent to obtain
forced labor or services, procure or sell the individual for
commercial sex, or exploit the individual in obscene matter.
Depriving or violating a person's liberty includes substantial
and sustained restriction of another's liberty accomplished
through fraud, deceit, coercion, violence, duress, menace, or
threat of unlawful injury to the victim or to another person,
under circumstances where the person receiving or apprehending
the threat reasonably believes that it is likely that the
person making the threat would carry it out.
"Lodging establishment" means an establishment classified
as a hotel or motel in the 2017 North American Industry
Classification System under code 721110, and an establishment
classified as a casino hotel in the 2017 North American
Industry Classification System under code 721120.
"Restaurant" means any business that is primarily engaged

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in the sale of ready-to-eat food for immediate consumption
comprising at least 51% of the total sales, excluding the sale
of liquor.
"School" means any public or private elementary or
secondary school, including a charter school.
"Truck stop" means an establishment intended to provide
services to the trucking industry, including, but not limited
to, selling fuel and food, providing showers, offering repair
services, and offering ample room where drivers of long-haul
trucks can park and rest.
(Source: P.A. 101-18, eff. 6-20-19; 101-499, eff. 8-23-19;
102-324, eff. 1-1-22.)
(820 ILCS 95/10)
Sec. 10. Human trafficking recognition training. Beginning
June 1, 2020, a lodging establishment, restaurant, or truck
stop, bar, barber shop, beauty salon, or school shall provide
its employees with training in the recognition of human
trafficking and protocols for reporting observed human
trafficking to the appropriate authority. The employees must
complete the training within 6 months after beginning
employment in such role with the lodging establishment and
every 2 years thereafter, if still employed by the lodging
establishment. The training shall be at least 20 minutes in
duration.
(Source: P.A. 101-18, eff. 6-20-19; 101-499, eff. 8-23-19;

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102-324, eff. 1-1-22.)
(820 ILCS 95/15)
Sec. 15. Human trafficking recognition training
curriculum.
(a) A lodging establishment, restaurant, truck stop, bar,
barber shop, beauty salon, or school may use its own human
trafficking training program or that of a third party and be in
full compliance with this Act if the human trafficking
training program includes, at a minimum, all of the following:
(1) a definition of human trafficking and commercial
exploitation of children;
(2) guidance on how to identify individuals who are
most at risk for human trafficking;
(3) the difference between human trafficking for
purposes of labor and for purposes of sex as the
trafficking relates to lodging establishments,
restaurants, truck stops, bars, barber shops, beauty
salons, or schools; and
(4) guidance on the role of lodging establishment
employees in reporting and responding to instances of
human trafficking.
(b) The Department shall develop a curriculum for an
approved human trafficking training recognition program which
shall be used by a lodging establishment, restaurant, truck
stop, bar, barber shop, beauty salon, or school that does not

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