Florida Senate - 2024 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
Bill No. CS for SB 796
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LEGISLATIVE ACTION
Senate . House
Comm: RCS .
02/06/2024 .
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The Committee on Criminal Justice (Avila) recommended the
following:
1 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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3 Delete everything after the enacting clause
4 and insert:
5 Section 1. Subsection (12) of section 16.618, Florida
6 Statutes, is amended to read:
7 16.618 Direct-support organization.—
8 (12) This section is repealed October 1, 2029 2024, unless
9 reviewed and saved from repeal by the Legislature.
10 Section 2. Paragraph (b) of subsection (8) of section
11 394.875, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
12 394.875 Crisis stabilization units, residential treatment
13 facilities, and residential treatment centers for children and
14 adolescents; authorized services; license required.—
15 (8)
16 (b) Residential treatment centers for children and
17 adolescents must conspicuously place signs on their premises to
18 warn children and adolescents of the dangers of human
19 trafficking and to encourage the reporting of individuals
20 observed attempting to engage in human trafficking activity. The
21 signs must contain the telephone number for the Florida Human
22 Trafficking Hotline, 1-855-FLA-SAFE, the National Human
23 Trafficking Hotline or such other number that the Department of
24 Law Enforcement uses to detect and stop human trafficking. The
25 department, in consultation with the agency, shall specify, at a
26 minimum, the content of the signs by rule.
27 Section 3. Subsection (3) of section 456.0341, Florida
28 Statutes, is amended to read:
29 456.0341 Requirements for instruction on human
30 trafficking.—The requirements of this section apply to each
31 person licensed or certified under chapter 457; chapter 458;
32 chapter 459; chapter 460; chapter 461; chapter 463; chapter 465;
33 chapter 466; part II, part III, part V, or part X of chapter
34 468; chapter 480; or chapter 486.
35 (3) By January 1, 2025 2021, the licensees or
36 certificateholders shall post in their place of work in a
37 conspicuous place accessible to employees a sign at least 11
38 inches by 15 inches in size, printed in a clearly legible font
39 and in at least a 32-point type, which substantially states in
40 English and Spanish:
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42 “If you or someone you know is being forced to engage in an
43 activity and cannot leave, whether it is prostitution,
44 housework, farm work, factory work, retail work, restaurant
45 work, or any other activity, call the Florida Human Trafficking
46 Hotline, 1-855-FLA-SAFE, the National Human Trafficking Resource
47 Center at 888-373-7888 or text INFO or HELP to 233-733 to access
48 help and services. Victims of slavery and human trafficking are
49 protected under United States and Florida law.”
50 Section 4. Subsection (13) of section 480.043, Florida
51 Statutes, is amended to read:
52 480.043 Massage establishments; requisites; licensure;
53 inspection; human trafficking awareness training and policies.—
54 (13) By January 1, 2025 2021, a massage establishment shall
55 implement a procedure for reporting suspected human trafficking
56 to the Florida Human Trafficking Hotline, 1-855-FLA-SAFE, the
57 National Human Trafficking Hotline or to a local law enforcement
58 agency and shall post in a conspicuous place in the
59 establishment which is accessible to employees a sign with the
60 relevant provisions of the reporting procedure.
61 Section 5. Subsections (1) and (3) of section 509.096,
62 Florida Statutes, are amended to read:
63 509.096 Human trafficking awareness training and policies
64 for employees of public lodging establishments; enforcement.—
65 (1) A public lodging establishment shall:
66 (a) Provide annual training regarding human trafficking
67 awareness to employees of the establishment who perform
68 housekeeping duties in the rental units or who work at the front
69 desk or reception area where guests ordinarily check in or check
70 out. Such training must also be provided for new employees
71 within 60 days after they begin their employment in those roles,
72 or by January 1, 2021, whichever occurs later. Each employee
73 must submit to the hiring establishment a signed and dated
74 acknowledgment of having received the training, which the
75 establishment must provide to the Department of Business and
76 Professional Regulation upon request. The establishment may keep
77 such acknowledgment electronically.
78 (b) By January 1, 2021, Implement a procedure for the
79 reporting of suspected human trafficking to the National Human
80 Trafficking Hotline or to a local law enforcement agency.
81 (c) By January 1, 2025 2021, post in a conspicuous location
82 in the establishment which is accessible to employees a human
83 trafficking public awareness sign at least 11 inches by 15
84 inches in size, printed in an easily legible font and in at
85 least 32-point type, which states in English and Spanish and any
86 other language predominantly spoken in that area which the
87 department deems appropriate substantially the following:
88
89 “If you or someone you know is being forced to engage in an
90 activity and cannot leave, whether it is prostitution,
91 housework, farm work, factory work, retail work, restaurant
92 work, or any other activity, call the Florida Human Trafficking
93 Hotline, 1-855-FLA-SAFE, the National Human Trafficking Resource
94 Center at 888-373-7888 or text INFO or HELP to 233-733 to access
95 help and services. Victims of slavery and human trafficking are
96 protected under United States and Florida law.”
97 (3) For a violation committed on or after July 1, 2023, The
98 division shall impose an administrative fine of $2,000 per day
99 on a public lodging establishment that is not in compliance with
100 this section and remit the fines to the direct-support
101 organization established under s. 16.618, unless the division
102 receives adequate written documentation from the public lodging
103 establishment which provides assurance that each deficiency will
104 be corrected within 45 days after the division provided the
105 public lodging establishment with notice of its violation. For a
106 second or subsequent violation of this subsection committed on
107 or after July 1, 2023, the division may not provide a correction
108 period to a public lodging establishment and must impose the
109 applicable administrative fines.
110 Section 6. Subsection (13) is added to section 787.06,
111 Florida Statutes, to read:
112 787.06 Human trafficking.—
113 (13) When a contract is executed, renewed, or extended
114 between a nongovernmental entity and a governmental entity, the
115 nongovernmental entity must provide the governmental entity with
116 an affidavit signed by an officer or a representative of the
117 nongovernmental entity under penalty of perjury attesting that
118 the nongovernmental entity does not use coercion for labor or
119 services as defined in this section. For purposes of this
120 subsection, the term “governmental entity” has the same meaning
121 as in s. 287.138(1).
122 Section 7. Subsection (4) of section 787.29, Florida
123 Statutes, is amended to read:
124 787.29 Human trafficking public awareness signs.—
125 (4) The required public awareness sign must be at least 8.5
126 inches by 11 inches in size, must be printed in at least a 16
127 point type, and must state substantially the following in
128 English and Spanish:
129
130 “If you or someone you know is being forced to engage in an
131 activity and cannot leave—whether it is prostitution, housework,
132 farm work, factory work, retail work, restaurant work, or any
133 other activity—call the Florida Human Trafficking Hotline, 1
134 855-FLA-SAFE, the National Human Trafficking Resource Center at
135 1-888-373-7888 or text INFO or HELP to 233-733 to access help
136 and services. Victims of slavery and human trafficking are
137 protected under United States and Florida law.”
138 Section 8. This act shall take effect July 1, 2024.
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141 And the title is amended as follows:
142 Delete everything before the enacting clause
143 and insert:
144 A bill to be entitled
145 An act relating to anti-human trafficking; amending s.
146 16.618, F.S.; extending the future repeal date of the
147 direct-support organization for the Statewide Council
148 on Human Trafficking; amending ss. 394.875, 456.0341,
149 and 480.043, F.S.; revising the hotline telephone
150 number to be included in human trafficking awareness
151 signs; amending s. 509.096, F.S.; deleting obsolete
152 provisions; revising the hotline telephone number to
153 be included in human trafficking awareness signs;
154 amending s. 787.06, F.S.; requiring that contractors
155 with governmental entities attest that they do not use
156 coercion for labor or services; defining the term
157 “governmental entity”; amending s. 787.29, F.S.;
158 revising the hotline telephone number to be included
159 in human trafficking awareness signs; providing an
160 effective date.