AB980: Bill Text

2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE

2023 Assembly BILL 980

January 19, 2024 - Introduced by Representatives Stubbs, Gundrum, C. Anderson, J. Anderson, Baldeh, Bare, Behnke, Conley, Dittrich, Drake, Emerson, Hurd, Joers, Kitchens, Madison, Maxey, Mursau, O'Connor, Ohnstad, Palmeri, Ratcliff, Schraa, Sinicki, Subeck and Wichgers, cosponsored by Senators Taylor, Wirch and Ballweg. Referred to Committee on Jobs, Economy and Small Business Development.

AB980,1,4 An Act to amend 165.71 (2) (intro.); and to create 165.71 (1m), 165.71 (2) (bm), 165.71 (2) (dm), 165.71 (2) (em), 165.71 (2) (fm), 165.71 (2) (m) and 165.71 (3) of the statutes; relating to: displaying a human trafficking resource center hotline poster.

Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau

Under current law, the Department of Justice must provide on its website a poster that provides information regarding a human trafficking resource center hotline and encourage that various entities download the poster free of charge. Current law also requires DOJ to encourage that the poster be displayed at all of the following places: certain gas stations; hotels; adult entertainment establishments; salons; places at which employers engage employees to perform agricultural labor; hospitals or other medical centers; places at which athletic or sporting events occur; establishments that operate as a massage parlor or spa, alternative health clinic, or similar entity; various expositions; courthouses; Department of Transportation rest areas; and public and private transit stations.

This bill requires the poster to be displayed at all of those locations and adds the following to the list of places that must display the poster: premises that serve alcoholic beverages, tattoo establishments, job recruitment centers, community-based residential facilities, and public and private elementary and secondary schools. The bill requires DOJ to monitor compliance with the requirement to display the poster and to notify an operator of a business or establishment that fails to do so that it must correct the violation within 30 days from the date the notice is sent.

For further information see the state fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

AB980,1 Section 1. 165.71 (1m) of the statutes is created to read:

AB980,2,3 165.71 (1m) The department of justice shall make the poster under sub. (1) available to others to print from its website.

AB980,2 Section 2. 165.71 (2) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB980,2,7 165.71 (2) (intro.) The department of justice shall make the poster under sub. (1) available to others to print from its Internet site and shall encourage its display at each Each of the following places shall display the poster under sub. (1):

AB980,3 Section 3. 165.71 (2) (bm) of the statutes is created to read:

AB980,2,10 165.71 (2) (bm) Premises operated under a license or permit issued under s. 125.26, 125.27, or 125.51 (3), (3m), or (5).

AB980,4 Section 4. 165.71 (2) (dm) of the statutes is created to read:

AB980,2,12 165.71 (2) (dm) Tattoo establishments, as defined in s. 463.10 (1) (b).

AB980,5 Section 5. 165.71 (2) (em) of the statutes is created to read:

AB980,2,14 165.71 (2) (em) Job recruitment centers.

AB980,6 Section 6. 165.71 (2) (fm) of the statutes is created to read:

AB980,2,17 165.71 (2) (fm) Community-based residential facilities, as defined in s. 50.01 (1g).

AB980,7 Section 7. 165.71 (2) (m) of the statutes is created to read:

AB980,2,19 165.71 (2) (m) Public and private elementary and secondary schools.

AB980,8 Section 8. 165.71 (3) of the statutes is created to read:

AB980,3,4 165.71 (3) The department of justice shall monitor compliance with the requirement under sub. (2) and shall notify an operator of a business or establishment that fails to comply that it shall correct the violation within 30 days from the date the notice is sent.

AB980,3,5 (End)