S178 ENR: Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act of 2015
U.S. Senate
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1.Short title; table of contents
(a)This Act may be cited as the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act of 2015
. (b)The table of contents for this Act is as follows:Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.TITLE I—Justice for Victims of TraffickingSec. 101. Domestic Trafficking Victims' Fund.Sec. 102. Clarifying the benefits and protections offered to domestic victims of human trafficking.Sec. 103. Victim-centered child human trafficking deterrence block grant program.Sec. 104. Direct services for victims of child pornography.Sec. 105. Increasing compensation and restitution for trafficking victims.Sec. 106. Streamlining human trafficking investigations.Sec. 107. Enhancing human trafficking reporting.Sec. 108. Reducing demand for sex trafficking.Sec. 109. Sense of Congress.Sec. 110. Using existing task forces and components to target offenders who exploit children.Sec. 111. Targeting child predators.Sec. 112. Monitoring all human traffickers as violent criminals.Sec. 113. Crime victims' rights.Sec. 114. Combat Human Trafficking Act.Sec. 115. Survivors of Human Trafficking Empowerment Act.Sec. 116. Bringing Missing Children Home Act.Sec. 117. Grant accountability.Sec. 118. SAVE Act.Sec. 119. Education and outreach to trafficking survivors.Sec. 120. Expanded statute of limitations for civil actions by child trafficking survivors.Sec. 121. GAO study and report.TITLE II—Combating Human TraffickingSubtitle A—Enhancing Services for Runaway and Homeless Victims of Youth TraffickingSec. 201. Amendments to the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act.Subtitle B—Improving the Response to Victims of Child Sex TraffickingSec. 211. Response to victims of child sex trafficking.Subtitle C—Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat TraffickingSec. 221. Victim of trafficking defined.Sec. 222. Interagency task force report on child trafficking primary prevention.Sec. 223. GAO Report on intervention.Sec. 224. Provision of housing permitted to protect and assist in the recovery of victims of
trafficking.Subtitle D—Expanded trainingSec. 231. Expanded training relating to trafficking in persons.TITLE III—HERO ActSec. 301. Short title.Sec. 302. HERO Act.Sec. 303. Transportation for illegal sexual activity and related crimes.TITLE IV—Rape survivor child custodySec. 401. Short title.Sec. 402. Definitions.Sec. 403. Findings.Sec. 404. Increased funding for formula grants authorized.Sec. 405. Application.Sec. 406. Grant increase.Sec. 407. Period of increase.Sec. 408. Allocation of increased formula grant funds.Sec. 409. Authorization of appropriations.TITLE V—Military sex offender reportingSec. 501. Short title.Sec. 502. Registration of sex offenders released from military corrections facilities or upon
conviction.TITLE VI—Stopping Exploitation Through TraffickingSec. 601. Safe Harbor Incentives.Sec. 602. Report on restitution paid in connection with certain trafficking offenses.Sec. 603. National human trafficking hotline.Sec. 604. Job corps eligibility.Sec. 605. Clarification of authority of the United States Marshals Service.Sec. 606. Establishing a national strategy to combat human trafficking.TITLE VII—Trafficking Awareness Training for Health CareSec. 701. Short title.Sec. 702. Development of best practices.Sec. 703. Definitions.Sec. 704. No additional authorization of appropriations.TITLE VIII—Better response for victims of child sex traffickingSec. 801. Short title.Sec. 802. CAPTA amendments.TITLE IX—Anti-trafficking training for Department of Homeland Security personnel Sec. 901. Definitions.Sec. 902. Training for Department personnel to identify human trafficking.Sec. 903. Certification and report to Congress.Sec. 904. Assistance to non-Federal entities.Sec. 905. Expanded use of Domestic Trafficking Victims’ Fund.TITLE X—Human Trafficking Survivors Relief and Empowerment ActSec. 1001. Short title.Sec. 1002. Protections for human trafficking survivors.
<enum>I</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Justice for Victims of Trafficking</header>
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id56C4B710F5BB40C3A86C2D92A3A6FA2D" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>101.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Domestic Trafficking Victims' Fund</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8720e5ff-6b41-451d-a063-d045f0b558bf"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc-chapter" parsable-cite="usc-chapter/18/201">Chapter 201</external-xref> of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1e2ebef4-d592-411f-bfb0-b9d0174f0cd6" style="USC">
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idf0ca4e24-42b4-46bf-968c-c6f81bb5bdaa" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>3014.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Additional
special assessment</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6e78394c-477a-4139-80b2-4f62de0b1bee"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Beginning on the date of enactment of the <short-title>Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act of 2015</short-title> and ending on September 30, 2019, in addition to the assessment imposed under section 3013, the court shall assess an amount of $5,000 on any non-indigent person or entity convicted of an offense under—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1878544f-c9de-42cc-8d31-0a72aceed5bc"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">chapter 77 (relating to peonage, slavery, and trafficking in persons);</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idf1f72a1c-f873-43b4-ba39-1d7800a42c8e"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">chapter 109A (relating to sexual abuse);</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idfd0a0335-cf8b-4012-be51-21dab85d9dc2"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">chapter 110 (relating to sexual exploitation and other abuse of children);</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id152fa2e9-abe7-4831-9b85-becc20c97551"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">chapter 117 (relating to transportation for illegal sexual activity and related crimes); or</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idffb8c951-8e32-4e8a-a894-969da2a84717"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">section 274 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1324">8 U.S.C. 1324</external-xref>) (relating to human smuggling), unless the person induced, assisted, abetted, or aided only an individual who at the time of such action was the alien’s spouse, parent, son, or daughter (and no other individual) to enter the United States in violation of law.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0eec1da2-3153-4dcc-a171-852cdb8bcad7"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Satisfaction of other court-Ordered obligations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An assessment under subsection (a) shall not be payable until the person subject to the assessment has satisfied all outstanding court-ordered fines, orders of restitution, and any other obligation related to victim-compensation arising from the criminal convictions on which the special assessment is based.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9c307f8a-f670-4218-be1c-b51f74b4d592"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Establishment of Domestic Trafficking Victims' Fund</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">There is established in the Treasury of the United States a fund, to be known as the <quote>Domestic Trafficking Victims' Fund</quote> (referred to in this section as the <term>Fund</term>), to be administered by the Attorney General, in consultation with the Secretary of Homeland Security and the Secretary of Health and Human Services.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5c111764-242a-4fd5-a5d0-565d0266ee4d"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Transfers</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In a manner consistent with section 3302(b) of title 31, there shall be transferred to the Fund from the General Fund of the Treasury an amount equal to the amount of the assessments collected under this section, which shall remain available until expended.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id67f839f7-910b-4db4-afea-a4f478678332"><enum>(e)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Use of funds</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4e376c04-28d1-451f-8d01-495185f312bc"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">From amounts in the Fund, in addition to any other amounts available, and without further appropriation, the Attorney General, in coordination with the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall, for each of fiscal years 2016 through 2019, use amounts available in the Fund to award grants or enhance victims' programming under—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida28967e9-e82d-4691-82fc-6b3af2411117"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">section 204 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2005 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/14044c">42 U.S.C. 14044c</external-xref>);</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5586982c-e0c1-4643-a1dc-f6611fdaba7c"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">subsections (b)(2) and (f) of section 107 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/7105">22 U.S.C. 7105</external-xref>); and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1a7bc67f-456c-4cfc-8618-94b314c2d79f"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">section 214(b) of the Victims of Child Abuse Act of 1990 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/13002">42 U.S.C. 13002(b)</external-xref>).</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id62479022E88646D3922B546089B42A22"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Limitation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Except as provided in subsection (h)(2), none of the amounts in the Fund may be used to provide health care or medical items or services.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id973f83e6-8aa4-48d2-b4e0-66b4457eb86a"><enum>(f)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Collection method</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The amount assessed under subsection (a) shall, subject to subsection (b), be collected in the manner that fines are collected in criminal cases.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6c77fab6-500c-430a-b194-22d23814ce74"><enum>(g)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Duration of obligation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subject to section 3613(b), the obligation to pay an assessment imposed on or after the date of enactment of the <short-title>Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act of 2015</short-title> shall not cease until the assessment is paid in full.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0CBBE2434D8445F890CB8CAD763B4640"><enum>(h)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Health or medical services</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9233F2849E3A4FA3BD970CCCF0DEB795"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Transfer of funds</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">From amounts appropriated under section 10503(b)(1)(E) of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/254b-2">42 U.S.C. 254b–2(b)(1)(E)</external-xref>), as amended by section 221 of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015, there shall be transferred to the Fund an amount equal to the amount transferred under subsection (d) for each fiscal year, except that the amount transferred under this paragraph shall not be less than $5,000,000 or more than $30,000,000 in each such fiscal year, and such amounts shall remain available until expended.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id65A7F65B166C436AAB842FF02E66B0B8"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Use of funds</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Attorney General, in coordination with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, shall use amounts transferred to the Fund under paragraph (1) to award grants that may be used for the provision of health care or medical items or services to victims of trafficking under—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idE88DA6FC189843FB9E9589942E8B8639"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">sections 202, 203, and 204 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2005 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/14044a">42 U.S.C. 14044a</external-xref>, 14044b, and 14044c);</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5DB44957C95944E5BBEF0A3D3B601C85"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">subsections (b)(2) and (f) of section 107 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/7105">22 U.S.C. 7105</external-xref>); and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id08DE57CA12014956A5AACFE33B1AF87C"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">section 214(b) of the Victims of Child Abuse Act of 1990 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/13002">42 U.S.C. 13002(b)</external-xref>).</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idae82d2757dc84eb78d8c2430b4d1eae3"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Grants</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Of the amounts in the Fund used under paragraph (1), not less than $2,000,000, if such amounts are available in the Fund during the relevant fiscal year, shall be used for grants to provide services for child pornography victims under section 214(b) of the Victims of Child Abuse Act of 1990 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/13002">42 U.S.C. 13002(b)</external-xref>).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id71fedccdcc8d4dd38693c9f4ebbad5d7"><enum>(4)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Application of provision</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The application of the provisions of section 221(c) of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 shall continue to apply to the amounts transferred pursuant to paragraph (1).</text></paragraph></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id23c3be89-94ea-4767-b3e0-c0f054aa7d5c"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Technical and
conforming amendment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The table of sections for <external-xref legal-doc="usc-chapter" parsable-cite="usc-chapter/18/201">chapter 201</external-xref> of title 18, United States Code, is amended by inserting after the item relating to <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/18/3013">section 3013</external-xref> the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id356f4faa-1cd0-41da-91ca-8f51f3bd612c" style="OLC"><toc><toc-entry bold="off" level="section">3014. Additional special
assessment.</toc-entry></toc><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id66e3d00c-4010-4d32-9116-97d102e881e5" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>102.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Clarifying the benefits and protections offered to domestic victims of human trafficking</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 107(b)(1) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/7105">22 U.S.C. 7105(b)(1)</external-xref>) is amended—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idC42A9CF3A09D48FE91A2078EC3A291D9"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by redesignating subparagraphs (F) and (G) as subparagraphs (G) and (H), respectively;</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idDBD6ECB377F94A73927A75915A2A3B02"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting after subparagraph (E) the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7273F02797814675A1D99475FB61DF9F" style="OLC">
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9ECF518F564B436CBBE8B3E1215838D9"><enum>(F)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">No requirement of official certification for United States citizens and lawful permanent residents</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Nothing in this section may be construed to require United States citizens or lawful permanent residents who are victims of severe forms of trafficking to obtain an official certification from the Secretary of Health and Human Services in order to access any of the specialized services described in this subsection or any other Federal benefits and protections to which they are otherwise entitled.</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA789BCC27289428085C644F3E32C96C3"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (H), as redesignated, by striking <quote>subparagraph (F)</quote> and inserting <quote>subparagraph (G)</quote>.</text> </paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb081257e-014a-4524-93b0-fd1282c9fa41" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>103.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Victim-centered child human trafficking deterrence block grant program</header> <subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc3ee328a-b875-43d7-9cc7-afa33bb44078"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 203 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2005 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/14044b">42 U.S.C. 14044b</external-xref>) is amended to read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3614b4bc-4f1d-4be7-b063-b2428b47ea11" style="OLC">
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id41686b19-757f-4fe0-b976-d35a16f80a38" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>203.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Victim-centered
child human trafficking deterrence block grant program</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5e5e3639-61bd-4f0d-a6df-485e3998d822"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Grants
authorized</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Attorney General may award block grants to an eligible entity to develop, improve, or expand domestic child human trafficking deterrence programs that assist law enforcement officers, prosecutors, judicial officials, and qualified victims' services organizations in collaborating to rescue and restore the lives of victims, while investigating and prosecuting offenses involving child human trafficking.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb034f858-1bbe-4a79-a478-a4c41a2fd615"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Authorized
activities</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Grants awarded under subsection (a) may be used for—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0b32a4da-da77-4adc-9f52-8c0d3d84b427"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the establishment or enhancement of specialized training programs for law enforcement officers, first responders, health care officials, child welfare officials, juvenile justice personnel, prosecutors, and judicial personnel to—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id97aaffd5-6f46-4fae-8f27-478868df323e"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">identify victims and acts of child human trafficking;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide290efca-af28-45af-a38c-52bb152ebf02"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">address the unique needs of child victims of human trafficking;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb3204392-f4bf-4cfd-8af4-1948eb3d15c8"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">facilitate the rescue of child victims of human trafficking;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id067fd96f-ab57-4dfe-b6a1-a77e8de4a416"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">investigate and prosecute acts of human trafficking, including the soliciting, patronizing, or purchasing of commercial sex acts from children, as well as training to build cases against complex criminal networks involved in child human trafficking; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4ee20a2f-445a-493d-a296-e182143ad962"><enum>(E)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">utilize, implement, and provide education on safe harbor laws enacted by States, aimed at preventing the criminalization and prosecution of child sex trafficking victims for prostitution offenses, and other laws aimed at the investigation and prosecution of child human trafficking;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idfd6c95cc-6571-48d3-975d-0abc7c129ad0"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the establishment or enhancement of dedicated anti-trafficking law enforcement units and task forces to investigate child human trafficking offenses and to rescue victims, including—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc50a26fc-6c3d-43bd-a0d1-2091e0a6d6be"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">funding salaries, in whole or in part, for law enforcement officers, including patrol officers, detectives, and investigators, except that the percentage of the salary of the law enforcement officer paid for by funds from a grant awarded under this section shall not be more than the percentage of the officer’s time on duty that is dedicated to working on cases involving child human trafficking;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5502cfbb-efc0-4838-81f8-ff8551d7b7d0"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">investigation expenses for cases involving child human trafficking, including—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idbb48370a-cd8a-447d-ac5d-2cd20557aca9"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">wire taps;</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb7b18e75-a650-4edc-8e54-fd16233f4c72"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">consultants with expertise specific to cases involving child human trafficking;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4111d293-3690-4205-978c-ef934be753da"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">travel; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc53a0779-b7bd-4209-8ecb-76b5ae68d0ed"><enum>(iv)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">other technical assistance expenditures;</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="iddcfdbc34-10a7-4f28-8e89-815e87cd7ef6"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">dedicated anti-trafficking prosecution units, including the funding of salaries for State and local prosecutors, including assisting in paying trial expenses for prosecution of child human trafficking offenders, except that the percentage of the total salary of a State or local prosecutor that is paid using an award under this section shall be not more than the percentage of the total number of hours worked by the prosecutor that is spent working on cases involving child human trafficking;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id913d0b96-d161-4bb0-8aab-30e0fb522f6b"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the establishment of child human trafficking victim witness safety, assistance, and relocation programs that encourage cooperation with law enforcement investigations of crimes of child human trafficking by leveraging existing resources and delivering child human trafficking victims’ services through coordination with—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide3621040-0336-4b02-a382-86da0cdf0b39"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">child advocacy centers;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1b6d2713-8a3e-44ee-907b-381934a9f08b"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">social service agencies;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9f3d2f24-66d1-4602-b3aa-777892007285"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">State governmental health service agencies;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5a95416a-a90a-4ee5-8ebe-827ecd570e8b"><enum>(iv)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">housing agencies;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2d01a387-ec48-41ff-8569-ef437792db84"><enum>(v)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">legal services agencies; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idab225fdb-ceb4-4e35-b77d-581d9fab9d66"><enum>(vi)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">nongovernmental organizations and shelter service providers with substantial experience in delivering wrap-around services to victims of child human trafficking; and</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide46d7249-5fb1-4090-870c-371383d5984b"><enum>(E)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the establishment or enhancement of other necessary victim assistance programs or personnel, such as victim or child advocates, child-protective services, child forensic interviews, or other necessary service providers;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9A6888720B99454F9D0E664DDCAF36EB"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">activities of law enforcement agencies to find homeless and runaway youth, including salaries and associated expenses for retired Federal law enforcement officers assisting the law enforcement agencies in finding homeless and runaway youth; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id111dc720-3429-404c-aacf-f70ef47dc6a6"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the establishment or enhancement of problem solving court programs for trafficking victims that include—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idfdb5d3c1-5894-4028-b2e0-5c863597e28f"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">mandatory and regular training requirements for judicial officials involved in the administration or operation of the court program described under this paragraph;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5a296726-db35-4124-b50d-1c818842f9b6"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">continuing judicial supervision of victims of child human trafficking, including case worker or child welfare supervision in collaboration with judicial officers, who have been identified by a law enforcement or judicial officer as a potential victim of child human trafficking, regardless of whether the victim has been charged with a crime related to human trafficking;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4e6c9b68-9d86-47e7-9ed4-a374450a1da2"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the development of a specialized and individualized, court-ordered treatment program for identified victims of child human trafficking, including—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5ad7628a-2e3f-4778-b1d5-f07c9aff0a4c"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">State-administered outpatient treatment;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id12c50a28-99fd-49f9-91a1-8b06d642bd5b"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">life skills training;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id279f48e9-5377-410e-9d30-ec33ff46105c"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">housing placement;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id186339ac-8c96-40e7-888d-e93060fcc9d0"><enum>(iv)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">vocational training;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2155a070-e683-4db4-8306-786eb1b4a2b1"><enum>(v)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">education;</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6f0a2b81-319a-459b-a8ba-29f405402964"><enum>(vi)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">family support services; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id940b9052-3100-4cee-a75d-47ddb92c4f9d"><enum>(vii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">job placement;</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5af662f3-82da-43f9-be35-6dc239e01c47"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">centralized case management involving the consolidation of all of each child human trafficking victim’s cases and offenses, and the coordination of all trafficking victim treatment programs and social services;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide91218bc-2243-475d-8f4b-276abbe830b5"><enum>(E)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">regular and mandatory court appearances by the victim during the duration of the treatment program for purposes of ensuring compliance and effectiveness;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id87c44e32-22d1-4d87-aac1-ee2a3b4fcb77"><enum>(F)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the ultimate dismissal of relevant non-violent criminal charges against the victim, where such victim successfully complies with the terms of the court-ordered treatment program; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ideacd0758-0f26-4b3f-afd1-2698f1cd2f1b"><enum>(G)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">collaborative efforts with child advocacy centers, child welfare agencies, shelters, and nongovernmental organizations with substantial experience in delivering wrap-around services to victims of child human trafficking to provide services to victims and encourage cooperation with law enforcement.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id16b373bf-dfc3-4441-ba71-6c3c73fcb05e"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Application</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3ed81adc-7383-48be-9361-0467572884ce"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An eligible entity shall submit an application to the Attorney General for a grant under this section in such form and manner as the Attorney General may require.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ided9c3a9e-6b3a-4f99-91f8-e891f1fc468c"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Required
information</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An application submitted under this subsection shall—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id280eafa8-9249-4d09-8eea-192726f099a6"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">describe the activities for which assistance under this section is sought;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id05c9ef57-1d11-4ebe-8f8e-b1b5393f1604"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">include a detailed plan for the use of funds awarded under the grant;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9a9642b4-aeec-427e-9dff-01f4fba1b13a"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">provide such additional information and assurances as the Attorney General determines to be necessary to ensure compliance with the requirements of this section; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6f4635fc-d672-4fa3-bc36-29618547b6d9"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">disclose—</text> <clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id09efc39e-8ca2-4cf1-b323-ca1920daeab7"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">any other grant funding from the Department of Justice or from any other Federal department or agency for purposes similar to those described in subsection (b) for which the eligible entity has applied, and which application is pending on the date of the submission of an application under this section; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id119d3470-4762-4a53-8e75-3126eea02c1d"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">any other such grant funding that the eligible entity has received during the 5-year period ending on the date of the submission of an application under this section.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idf7017e4d-8a35-4617-84a2-9a812d0e365c"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Preference</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In reviewing applications submitted in accordance with paragraphs (1) and (2), the Attorney General shall give preference to grant applications if—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc052f829-4514-4c40-94e3-6c4e45d44f54"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the application includes a plan to use awarded funds to engage in all activities described under paragraphs (1) through (3) of subsection (b); or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id02b14ffd-36aa-44d6-96a4-ede6b256b7e6"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the application includes a plan by the State or unit of local government to continue funding of all activities funded by the award after the expiration of the award.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5B0F920752C740FDB6A048435D4ACAAD"><enum>(4)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Eligible entities soliciting data on child human trafficking</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">No eligible entity shall be disadvantaged in being awarded a grant under subsection (a) on the grounds that the eligible entity has only recently begun soliciting data on child human trafficking.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idd374921d-2fdc-49c8-8380-49a890b40acc"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Duration and
renewal of award</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4ef00c13-f5cb-4465-9d09-8003f1ec39eb"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A grant under this section shall expire 3 years after the date of award of the grant.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide3b6d0c6-e7b8-44ae-9166-c39fa47bcdbf"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Renewal</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A grant under this section shall be renewable not more than 2 times and for a period of not greater than 2 years.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb50528e4-ea4d-4cce-8776-afbcd0d7cf8a"><enum>(e)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Evaluation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Attorney General shall—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id92a7c0cc-7fd1-4154-9446-1b9ec282a10b"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">enter into a contract with a nongovernmental organization, including an academic or nonprofit organization, that has experience with issues related to child human trafficking and evaluation of grant programs to conduct periodic evaluations of grants made under this section to determine the impact and effectiveness of programs funded with grants awarded under this section;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id47BB782E80FE4005BC22AD419178E43B"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">instruct the Inspector General of the Department of Justice to review evaluations issued under paragraph (1) to determine the methodological and statistical validity of the evaluations; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idd5d59f17-53b7-48ee-b3b8-749c5eb6e3b5"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">submit the results of any evaluation conducted pursuant to paragraph (1) to—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idd760d040-7966-4bc2-ac42-b024c4a3ef13"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the <committee-name committee-id="SSJU00">Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate</committee-name>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb84fe947-8c1f-4507-9036-f883dc55a465"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the <committee-name committee-id="">Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives</committee-name>.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc552e553-7b9d-4ba1-9108-791f9ab9e7b8"><enum>(f)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Mandatory exclusion</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An eligible entity awarded funds under this section that is found to have used grant funds for any unauthorized expenditure or otherwise unallowable cost shall not be eligible for any grant funds awarded under the block grant for 2 fiscal years following the year in which the unauthorized expenditure or unallowable cost is reported.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="iddbc552b5-4f5a-4ec2-a0ad-5b71fbc2a6e3"><enum>(g)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Compliance
requirement</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An eligible entity shall not be eligible to receive a grant under this section if within the 5 fiscal years before submitting an application for a grant under this section, the grantee has been found to have violated the terms or conditions of a Government grant program by utilizing grant funds for unauthorized expenditures or otherwise unallowable costs.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8f69ee12-648e-45ea-87e9-5e79b6e1ff9a"><enum>(h)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Administrative
cap</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The cost of administering the grants authorized by this section shall not exceed 5 percent of the total amount expended to carry out this section.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id96f0efb4-5215-4cdd-a1a1-ee27d2d2f992"><enum>(i)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Federal
share</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Federal share of the cost of a program funded by a grant awarded under this section shall be—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida3d5d1e1-7597-4fba-bfd0-c7243e5bf16b"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">70 percent in the first year;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id439b56d9-fda6-456a-9014-d9ea0cbc25e8"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">60 percent in the second year; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7d06bbb1-9b10-4174-9cb8-aabe19b44d3f"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">50 percent in the third year, and in all subsequent years.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1764f01a-55a8-40bd-9419-7baadeeb5c11"><enum>(j)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Authorization
of funding; fully offset</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For purposes of carrying out this section, the Attorney General, in consultation with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, is authorized to award not more than $7,000,000 of the funds available in the Domestic Trafficking Victims’ Fund, established under section 3014 of title 18, United States Code, for each of fiscal years 2016 through 2020.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6cb6346c-ae45-4bef-a1f7-22d3ca199f7f"><enum>(k)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Definitions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this section—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc7d3ed5a-b357-45b8-baa5-13d35c385b50"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the term <term>child</term> means a person under the age of 18;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idbbd6f120-3dcf-4829-adff-4994fa9d1ec8"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the term <term>child advocacy center</term> means a center created under subtitle A of the Victims of Child Abuse Act of 1990 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/13001">42 U.S.C. 13001 et seq.</external-xref>);</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id46d92bc1-8564-4358-b5fe-ec6864996e71"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the term <term>child human trafficking</term> means 1 or more severe forms of trafficking in persons (as defined in section 103 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/7102">22 U.S.C. 7102</external-xref>)) involving a victim who is a child; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2946017e-5ac5-48a7-9863-c2bc013a239d"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the term <term>eligible entity</term> means a State or unit of local government that—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id359b7095-cd23-4710-8db1-384713eb834f"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">has significant criminal activity involving child human trafficking;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id42097312-0c0a-42d5-b2bb-4f0f586dd627"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">has demonstrated cooperation between Federal, State, local, and, where applicable, tribal law enforcement agencies, prosecutors, and social service providers in addressing child human trafficking;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id22be1e99-c824-4c58-97d9-8b4e680b4073"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">has developed a workable, multi-disciplinary plan to combat child human trafficking, including—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id87451e35-0c8f-466a-b0ff-03a750f144f6"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the establishment of a shelter for victims of child human trafficking, through existing or new facilities;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id79f737e2-7f3b-4bbe-bc1a-a2382c10ed0d"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the provision of trauma-informed, gender-responsive rehabilitative care to victims of child human trafficking;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9f52761e-3cad-43f6-a9ed-38bcf780e32e"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the provision of specialized training for law enforcement officers and social service providers for all forms of human trafficking, with a focus on domestic child human trafficking;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id20058786-781c-4e2e-b5e8-f7d8b34b240c"><enum>(iv)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">prevention, deterrence, and prosecution of offenses involving child human trafficking, including soliciting, patronizing, or purchasing human acts with children;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb9165c7d-586f-4fe5-9e10-6f114915f300"><enum>(v)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">cooperation or referral agreements with organizations providing outreach or other related services to runaway and homeless youth;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb3df3a69-4abf-472f-aa50-28434ff1a385"><enum>(vi)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">law enforcement protocols or procedures to screen all individuals arrested for prostitution, whether adult or child, for victimization by sex trafficking and by other crimes, such as sexual assault and domestic violence; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id52846de2-d20c-488d-890a-dfa073d84630"><enum>(vii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">cooperation or referral agreements with State child welfare agencies and child advocacy centers; and</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4cb4af63-05b7-472c-a565-4bb831c202d4"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">provides an assurance that, under the plan under subparagraph (C), a victim of child human trafficking shall not be required to collaborate with law enforcement officers to have access to any shelter or services provided with a grant under this section.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idab1affb0-8fce-4a74-a2eb-370ed1fac6f6"><enum>(l)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Grant accountability; specialized victims’ service requirement</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">No grant funds under this section may be awarded or transferred to any entity unless such entity has demonstrated substantial experience providing services to victims of human trafficking or related populations (such as runaway and homeless youth), or employs staff specialized in the treatment of human trafficking victims.</text></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2593a693-2a22-4df7-8019-861ceb08f28d"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Table of contents</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The table of contents in section 1(b) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2005 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/7101">22 U.S.C. 7101</external-xref> note) is amended by striking the item relating to section 203 and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id353c636b-acc6-4fa8-b5cf-6f09725fa908" style="OLC"><toc><toc-entry bold="off" level="section">Sec. 203. Victim-centered
child human trafficking deterrence block grant program.</toc-entry></toc><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc5d6f758-4383-456b-8b14-aa2675f0d29d" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>104.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Direct services
for victims of child pornography</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The Victims of Child Abuse Act of 1990 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/13001">42 U.S.C. 13001 et seq.</external-xref>) is amended—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id302b87a8-86f0-41fa-a26e-683609b1cbce"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in section 212(5) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/13001a">42 U.S.C. 13001a(5)</external-xref>), by inserting <quote>, including human trafficking and the production of child pornography</quote> before the semicolon at the end; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idde650183-1527-44ee-b9f9-6e85e7a4a97f"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in section 214 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/13002">42 U.S.C. 13002</external-xref>)—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7198dcf9-bb2c-4e75-b558-951ead48992e"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by redesignating subsections (b), (c), and (d) as subsections (c), (d), and (e), respectively; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9e2dc953-adbe-4b49-84eb-fbd47182e4bb"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting after subsection (a) the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id066c691a-494c-4696-ae2c-07890fb07dec" style="OLC"> <subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idff880898-8896-45ae-a7a0-8ef4c13c7805"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Direct services for victims of child pornography</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Administrator, in coordination with the Director and with the Director of the Office of Victims of Crime, may make grants to develop and implement specialized programs to identify and provide direct services to victims of child pornography.</text></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subparagraph></paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id766f5f20-9d9e-4b69-8e5f-3b3157c26f7f" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>105.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Increasing
compensation and restitution for trafficking victims</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id39d45a08-f0a8-42ea-a6bb-e0b585f5ea53"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Amendments to title 18</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 1594 of title 18, United States Code, is amended—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idd68ec962-6ea9-4836-a50d-800f343af7a9"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (d)—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4d61b2bc-e214-4a48-802d-475e121ea799"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (1)—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id57e9d630-d22a-4349-997c-63fc3cdaeedc"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>that was used or</quote> and inserting <quote>that was involved in, used, or</quote>; and</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id17798536-1b9e-443b-a6ff-9b19127d0aa6"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting <quote>, and any property traceable to such property</quote> after <quote>such violation</quote>; and</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide8892c4d-a760-482c-8282-b53a247de4f2"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (2), by inserting <quote>, or any property traceable to such property</quote> after <quote>such violation</quote>;</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id06e520d5-2dfa-4285-98aa-7886fac6dbe7"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (e)(1)(A)—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id740a3afa-e868-4b15-a971-27750e1957da"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>used or</quote> and inserting <quote>involved in, used, or</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9a5f3097-1306-4167-b179-9d5b334faf78"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting <quote>, and any property traceable to such property</quote> after <quote>any violation of this chapter</quote>;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6858a173-3863-4215-8366-0f1aeed19f90"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by redesignating subsection (f) as subsection (g); and</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc9bc653f-5926-422c-9630-47b042e3e6bc"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting after subsection (e) the following:</text>
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<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id70ed818a-cd6f-436a-a83f-ec300c940c51"><enum>(f)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Transfer of forfeited assets</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ideb1a5c37-96c6-44e2-8f51-ec0df118bcdd"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Attorney General shall transfer assets forfeited pursuant to this section, or the proceeds derived from the sale thereof, to satisfy victim restitution orders arising from violations of this chapter.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id69f3858f-f316-4fc0-b81c-6e13d4264a32"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Priority</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Transfers pursuant to paragraph (1) shall have priority over any other claims to the assets or their proceeds.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5f6a5c44-16b0-4aed-833a-5b30549a0539"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Use of nonforfeited assets</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Transfers pursuant to paragraph (1) shall not reduce or otherwise mitigate the obligation of a person convicted of a violation of this chapter to satisfy the full amount of a restitution order through the use of non-forfeited assets or to reimburse the Attorney General for the value of assets or proceeds transferred under this subsection through the use of nonforfeited assets.</text></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idd37e2b65-54f0-4d4e-8423-f4ee9745241d"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Amendment to title 28</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 524(c)(1)(B) of title 28, United States Code, is amended by inserting <quote>chapter 77 of title 18,</quote> after <quote>criminal drug laws of the United States or of</quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0ee2118f-eeef-4da2-86e6-32345b2a681b"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Amendments to title 31</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id959179d6-d8e0-426d-8578-9b681371a223"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc-chapter" parsable-cite="usc-chapter/31/97">Chapter 97</external-xref> of title 31, United States Code, is amended—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id845b51f0-bfa3-4a4b-9353-4b9eeb14b79a"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by redesignating section 9703 (as added by section 638(b)(1) of the Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations Act, 1993 (<external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/102/393">Public Law 102–393</external-xref>; 106 Stat. 1779)) as section 9705; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id05779c5b-df18-4b64-8850-434f42d91402"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in section 9705(a), as redesignated—</text> <clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id26d9c941-0452-4d2a-b7a5-7e64752ffd8a"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (1)—</text>
<subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9f68b657-ab74-4107-9ccf-a07957f51e06"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (I)—</text> <item commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idd069da27-928a-43bd-be89-84b9dd9bdd74"><enum>(aa)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>payment</quote> and inserting <quote>Payment</quote>; and</text>
</item><item commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0853a44f-f6c3-4647-ad71-3904c52c17f4"><enum>(bb)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking the semicolon at the end and inserting a period; and</text> </item></subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id28be1b94-2135-4c1b-8a30-ca059c493b89"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (J), by striking <quote>payment</quote> and inserting <quote>Payment</quote>; and</text>
</subclause></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id782a1acf-00d1-4e35-9071-142d84ffea18"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (2)—</text> <subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc670de44-62e9-4084-8205-a3902b7fbdd0"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (B)—</text>
<item commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idebfe919b-9f4c-4894-8d3a-1f3fe820a159"><enum>(aa)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in clause (iii)—</text>
<subitem commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id31492495-4390-41a0-8a4b-bcf0b078ec9d"><enum>(AA)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subclause (I), by striking <quote>or</quote> and inserting <quote>of</quote>; and</text> </subitem><subitem commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id060dec60-6309-4175-a08b-bf0238763f16"><enum>(BB)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subclause (III), by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end;</text>
</subitem></item><item commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id24ba9a1e-3bab-49e6-b98d-625a538a8855"><enum>(bb)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in clause (iv), by striking the period at the end and inserting <quote>; and</quote>; and</text>
</item><item commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2d22a22b-d316-422e-8edf-a9cbb987a5e7"><enum>(cc)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting after clause (iv) the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idaf7db7f5-7f90-4a3f-9af3-2642fde370ab" style="OLC">
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4a93604d-f065-464b-be15-0e1610e82afe"><enum>(v)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement with respect to a violation of <external-xref legal-doc="usc-chapter" parsable-cite="usc-chapter/18/77">chapter 77</external-xref> of title 18 (relating to human trafficking);</text></clause><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</item></subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id992dfe70-f675-4375-b1a5-ecf6adf58e9c"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (G), by adding <quote>and</quote> at the end; and</text> </subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id62e2d328-bcca-4044-85e3-7ff726443977"><enum>(III)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (H), by striking <quote>; and</quote> and inserting a period.</text>
</subclause></clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="iddf43853f-ff3e-44f3-adec-cef2365a1af2"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Technical and conforming amendments</header>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9bdfad86-cce0-4a1e-a411-ab801d10335e"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Cross references</header>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id444d0999-e9c9-456e-aefa-666ec8fa2576"><enum>(i)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Title 28</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 524(c) of title 28, United States Code, is amended—</text> <subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id730aada8-17d3-44e7-8306-762af505d76e"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (4)(C), by striking <quote>section 9703(g)(4)(A)(ii)</quote> and inserting <quote>section 9705(g)(4)(A)</quote>;</text>
</subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id69fdfe14-71a2-41ae-b0cf-94f06d1977ee"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (10), by striking <quote>section 9703(p)</quote> and inserting <quote>section 9705(o)</quote>; and</text> </subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id69a093d9-9a2c-4b90-a851-497daea4e882"><enum>(III)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (11), by striking <quote>section 9703</quote> and inserting <quote>section 9705</quote>.</text>
</subclause></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id67ad4134-bc9c-4968-9e1a-aad64ce7ac49"><enum>(ii)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline"> Title 31</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Title 31, United States Code, is amended—</text> <subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida3bec03f-c2a1-4aea-8c0b-7e82627f9559"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in section 312(d), by striking <quote>section 9703</quote> and inserting <quote>section 9705</quote>; and</text>
</subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idab57f4e5-26df-41a1-9d33-77c859d920c8"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in section 5340(1), by striking <quote>section 9703(p)(1)</quote> and inserting <quote>section 9705(o)</quote>.</text> </subclause></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idad21cbcd-0b8b-4cc8-a7c1-3976bc7231b6"><enum>(iii)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Title 39</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 2003(e)(1) of title 39, United States Code, is amended by striking <quote>section 9703(p)</quote> and inserting <quote>section 9705(o)</quote>.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida63ee540-f2e3-4957-858a-e05736119057"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Table of sections</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The table of sections for <external-xref legal-doc="usc-chapter" parsable-cite="usc-chapter/31/97">chapter 97</external-xref> of title 31, United States Code, is amended to read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc6b0a91b-1689-4ddf-a2ba-02f304c960b6" style="OLC"><toc><toc-entry bold="off" level="section">9701. Fees and charges for Government services and things of value.</toc-entry><toc-entry bold="off" level="section">9702. Investment of trust funds.</toc-entry><toc-entry bold="off" level="section">9703. Managerial accountability and flexibility.</toc-entry><toc-entry bold="off" level="section">9704. Pilot projects for managerial accountability and flexibility.</toc-entry><toc-entry bold="off" level="section">9705. Department of the Treasury Forfeiture Fund.</toc-entry></toc><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb93ffa57-65a7-437f-9b6f-0471f1f59256" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>106.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Streamlining
human trafficking investigations</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 2516 of title 18, United States Code, is amended—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc067f370-2ed4-4591-9e1b-4a120834d85f"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (1)—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idd8a6058b-8f50-449b-9a6e-b34f51f4d57f"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (a), by inserting a comma after <quote>weapons)</quote>;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idde94d1df-5df4-430c-925c-7c3dde30a904"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (c)—</text> <clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idda2b950a-ce43-44f0-b631-da305187dee7"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting <quote>section 1581 (peonage), section 1584 (involuntary servitude), section 1589 (forced labor), section 1590 (trafficking with respect to peonage, slavery, involuntary servitude, or forced labor),</quote> before <quote>section 1591</quote>;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4a4e33f0-1d89-4c4b-acb7-08360a5b5ebd"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting <quote>section 1592 (unlawful conduct with respect to documents in furtherance of trafficking, peonage, slavery, involuntary servitude, or forced labor),</quote> before <quote>section 1751</quote>;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id17ceeb5e-10b3-4d4b-abcd-97458c02e914"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting a comma after <quote>virus)</quote>;</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida0d9eac3-26d2-49a1-8ea7-16242ead19e8"><enum>(iv)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>,, section</quote> and inserting a comma;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idd9ac4650-db55-44bd-a410-1482a2c04421"><enum>(v)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>or</quote> after <quote>misuse of passports),</quote>; and</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8b027f47-7124-487f-ac84-882f839f4bb4"><enum>(vi)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting <quote>or</quote> before <quote>section 555</quote>;</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7fc0db93-4e9a-4682-845e-d3ae69a5752a"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (j), by striking <quote>pipeline,)</quote> and inserting <quote>pipeline),</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3a89df0b-1cee-49fd-921f-a363bac7ca4d"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (p), by striking <quote>documents, section 1028A (relating to aggravated identity theft))</quote> and inserting <quote>documents), section 1028A (relating to aggravated identity theft)</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1dc8f142-b577-40ab-ae05-40e54bf96eb6"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (2), by inserting <quote>human trafficking, child sexual exploitation, child pornography production,</quote> after <quote>kidnapping</quote>.</text> </paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id83c0cc5b-a23f-4b6e-8f8c-885eb98c5fc5" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>107.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Enhancing human trafficking reporting</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 505 of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/3755">42 U.S.C. 3755</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id234f2e1b-81de-4253-a187-99c565e856bd" style="OLC">
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id98d95563-bfb3-4ec2-b56d-f248729d5787"><enum>(i)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Part 1 violent
crimes To include human trafficking</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For purposes of this section, the term <term>part 1 violent crimes</term> shall include severe forms of trafficking in persons (as defined in section 103 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/7102">22 U.S.C. 7102</external-xref>)).</text></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2e092b8e-7992-4edc-a59a-a4993d771a79" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>108.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Reducing demand
for sex trafficking</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id39f9c7ce-07e3-456a-b03d-7d30860bed58"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 1591 of title 18, United States Code, is amended—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5a7471e7-d30c-4a38-bdb7-c620a14ef61a"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (a)(1), by striking <quote>or maintains</quote> and inserting <quote>maintains, patronizes, or solicits</quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9c7d924a-a6f9-4af7-8738-27fca6b7705f"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (b)—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="iddbf03c48-bc58-4b7e-989e-8864d42de128"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (1), by striking <quote>or obtained</quote> and inserting <quote>obtained, patronized, or solicited</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide427ac70-ca95-44fa-89e5-65a46327a05f"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (2), by striking <quote>or obtained</quote> and inserting <quote>obtained, patronized, or solicited</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idf639d03b-4081-434a-a971-945d5b1754a9"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (c)—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idd99583e9-76b4-4dd5-959b-3dd72e038480"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>or maintained</quote> and inserting <quote>, maintained, patronized, or solicited</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida67110de-f927-4ca3-8aee-1f575125bb63"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>knew that the person</quote> and inserting <quote>knew, or recklessly disregarded the fact, that the person</quote>.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id012a2e0b-c004-4042-af08-7ae63c5e1625"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Definition
amended</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 103(10) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/7102">22 U.S.C. 7102(10)</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>or obtaining</quote> and inserting <quote>obtaining, patronizing, or soliciting</quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb2aa6f93-1062-42f6-9384-ffc18472c3dc"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Purpose</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The purpose of the amendments made by this section is to clarify the range of conduct punished as sex trafficking.</text>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id61B89651A655472AAEB3A1FB7F8FBE3D" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>109.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Sense of Congress</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">It is the sense of Congress that—</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id08a40d7424f440c7b8ea2af1c636193c"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">section 1591 of title 18, United States Code, defines a sex trafficker as a person who <quote>knowingly…recruits, entices, harbors, transports, provides, obtains, or maintains by any means a person…knowing, or in reckless disregard of the fact, that means of force, threats of force, fraud, coercion…or any combination of such means will be used to cause the person to engage in a commercial sex act, or that the person has not attained the age of 18 years and will be caused to engage in a commercial sex act</quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id314ca3f34fbc4ac7b3832d784de1c0eb"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">while use of the word <quote>obtains</quote> in section 1591, United States Code, has been interpreted, prior to the date of enactment of this Act, to encompass those who purchase illicit sexual acts from trafficking victims, some confusion persists;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb11e3672c5204f11a9a4d088a5160c85"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in United States vs. Jungers, 702 F.3d 1066 (8th Cir. 2013), the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ruled that section 1591 of title 18, United States Code, applied to persons who purchase illicit sexual acts with trafficking victims after the United States District Court for the District of South Dakota erroneously granted motions to acquit these buyers in two separate cases; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idea6342932cce430dbaf39bedc18b9573"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">section 108 of this title amends section 1591 of title 18, United States Code, to add the words <quote>solicits or patronizes</quote> to the sex trafficking statute making absolutely clear for judges, juries, prosecutors, and law enforcement officials that criminals who purchase sexual acts from human trafficking victims may be arrested, prosecuted, and convicted as sex trafficking offenders when this is merited by the facts of a particular case.</text>
</paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idbeff3c54-20e1-4257-a7e3-1dd3d5c220be" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>110.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Using existing
task forces and components to target offenders who exploit children</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Attorney General shall ensure that—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida79f56f2-17e6-400a-aee3-548a7bfcfd81"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">all task forces and working groups within the Innocence Lost National Initiative engage in activities, programs, or operations to increase the investigative capabilities of State and local law enforcement officers in the detection, investigation, and prosecution of persons who patronize, or solicit children for sex; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id155a1a95-a69a-4c33-86a9-d8caedd4a1e7"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">all components and task forces with jurisdiction to detect, investigate, and prosecute cases of child labor trafficking engage in activities, programs, or operations to increase the capacity of such components to deter and punish child labor trafficking.</text>
</paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0928ee7d-19eb-429d-9a1d-8ce26b48736a" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>111.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Targeting child predators</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="iddba1d47b-e6e7-4589-9a52-dcd12cd130a2"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Clarifying that child pornography producers are human traffickers</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 2423(f) of title 18, United States Code, is amended—</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc32108c7-dfe9-498b-90a4-08ba478d6bdf"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>means (1) a</quote> and inserting the following: “means—</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id576b7485-4c92-492a-a26f-56dfdfa84356" style="OLC">
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5b1cc97b-1f20-4df5-87b1-faf285dea2db"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idf576741d-057d-4cd6-9018-75fc23276d68"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>United States; or (2) any</quote> and inserting the following: “United States;</text>
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<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5000170c-1229-4e42-8772-26be5aed2d83"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">any</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id491e95bf-452b-45ca-b546-8defe87155a0"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking the period at the end and inserting the following: “; or</text>
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<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id81eb69a7-ce1c-4950-a007-82acba82fccb"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">production of child pornography (as defined in section 2256(8)).</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idbcd27f5e-e81c-46f0-bcf3-3b61c34fd53d"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Holding sex traffickers accountable</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 2423(g) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by striking <quote>a preponderance of the evidence</quote> and inserting <quote>clear and convincing evidence</quote>.</text>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idcc726418-ea86-4eec-b10c-33ec00696557" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>112.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Monitoring all human traffickers as violent criminals</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 3156(a)(4)(C) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by inserting <quote>77,</quote> after <quote>chapter</quote>.</text> </section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8b145601-0e16-4d09-827a-b19ef0b0c12d" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>113.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Crime victims' rights</header> <subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4d1f3a60-2273-49cd-895c-9206d50875d5"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 3771 of title 18, United States Code, is amended—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6e09c7ce-79ca-4b57-a5ec-a101ad42c444"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (a), by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0eed1658-c76d-45c5-aaa3-959e9daa5839" style="OLC">
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4c184f9f-6eb0-459d-a158-acff9f2366dd"><enum>(9)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The right to be informed in a timely manner of any plea bargain or deferred prosecution agreement.</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idf3770757-d8d0-4253-b318-0752eb46160b"><enum>(10)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The right to be informed of the rights under this section and the services described in section 503(c) of the Victims' Rights and Restitution Act of 1990 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/10607">42 U.S.C. 10607(c)</external-xref>) and provided contact information for the Office of the Victims' Rights Ombudsman of the Department of Justice.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7090e0a5-d961-4679-ac55-c62debc39c98"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (d)(3), in the fifth sentence, by inserting <quote>, unless the litigants, with the approval of the court, have stipulated to a different time period for consideration</quote> before the period; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3a69aa2e-3e0b-4194-ac55-c9a790532355"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (e)—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idd6f11602-7e02-4318-9f5d-a074af023ccc"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>this chapter, the term</quote> and inserting the following: “this chapter:</text>
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<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4bd78988-0ab0-4d95-98e8-9f0a88c5e626"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Court of
appeals</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>court of appeals</term> means—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id59e94e27-2038-405a-940e-304cda8089db"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the United States court of appeals for the judicial district in which a defendant is being prosecuted; or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id419b0d73-01d5-40fd-b1ec-e43c0b00c36a"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">for a prosecution in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4f0e5a8e-268a-40ce-8af3-1fed78b8f9f7"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Crime
victim</header>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8f3e34ac-106d-4f2b-a813-957dc6aaf70c"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>; </after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0f6c3144-1377-4655-9d8a-eb87aaf82a0c"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>In the case</quote> and inserting the following:</text>
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<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id24b81475-af2b-456d-8fd5-c940996424f8"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Minors and
certain other victims</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In the case</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>;
and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1cff640b-da31-4781-b0a8-fa5a6f89dfa2"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide384f183-913b-4373-b203-fdd4752510be"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">District court;
court</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The terms <term>district court</term> and <term>court</term> include the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1d17e814-d8bd-43fb-b70b-879c39795b9f"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Crime victims fund</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 1402(d)(3)(A)(i) of the Victims of Crime Act of 1984 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/10601">42 U.S.C. 10601(d)(3)(A)(i)</external-xref>) is amended by inserting <quote>section</quote> before <quote>3771</quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5f1fd6e4-0afc-4d18-b378-97fc08966df6"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Appellate review of petitions relating to crime victims' rights</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb55dfb3c-7e61-4f94-8a55-c3ee0c87a858"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 3771(d)(3) of title 18, United States Code, as amended by subsection (a)(2) of this section, is amended by inserting after the fifth sentence the following: <quote>In deciding such application, the court of appeals shall apply ordinary standards of appellate review.</quote>.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id496e96f8-e575-463f-a50f-5ad3e9b850f7"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Application</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The amendment made by paragraph (1) shall apply with respect to any petition for a writ of mandamus filed under section 3771(d)(3) of title 18, United States Code, that is pending on the date of enactment of this Act.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide924ce0f-6ac5-47e9-a16f-139af5724159" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>114.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Combat Human Trafficking Act</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2a592974-8895-4d8c-93f9-b61c042dde02"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Short title</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">This section may be cited as the <quote>Combat Human Trafficking Act of 2015</quote>.</text> </subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id75c46fd0-2870-46c6-a3f0-881eb8e03858"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Definitions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this section:</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7dc529c7-3ba2-468d-bef1-5a877aef56b1"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Commercial sex act; Severe forms of trafficking in persons; State; Task Force</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The terms <term>commercial sex act</term>, <term>severe forms of trafficking in persons</term>, <term>State</term>, and <term>Task Force</term> have the meanings given those terms in section 103 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/7102">22 U.S.C. 7102</external-xref>).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idab0d4fb3-b3df-4f2d-991c-54d3a77defc8"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Covered offender</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>covered offender</term> means an individual who obtains, patronizes, or solicits a commercial sex act involving a person subject to severe forms of trafficking in persons.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0f84112d-d1f8-41e9-b98a-877af62889e4"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Covered offense</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>covered offense</term> means the provision, obtaining, patronizing, or soliciting of a commercial sex act involving a person subject to severe forms of trafficking in persons.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc0ec85e0-e2c3-415f-bc05-659593700feb"><enum>(4)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Federal law enforcement officer</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>Federal law enforcement officer</term> has the meaning given the term in section 115 of title 18, United States Code.</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb95a0b84-12ce-4c19-88f1-2b911acc8089"><enum>(5)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Local law enforcement officer</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>local law enforcement officer</term> means any officer, agent, or employee of a unit of local government authorized by law or by a local government agency to engage in or supervise the prevention, detection, investigation, or prosecution of any violation of criminal law.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide8cacca9-c354-45aa-93b6-26b4a2721644"><enum>(6)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">State law enforcement officer</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>State law enforcement officer</term> means any officer, agent, or employee of a State authorized by law or by a State government agency to engage in or supervise the prevention, detection, investigation, or prosecution of any violation of criminal law.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida09278b0-47bb-4d2a-bee2-ba4e5fedb80c"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Department of justice training and policy for law enforcement officers, prosecutors, and judges</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc683db85-774b-4368-91ee-b0e4fa0e3d3b"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Training</header>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide13cfe55-9f1a-4982-8a93-ec4d20460c1d"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Law enforcement officers</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Attorney General shall ensure that each anti-human trafficking program operated by the Department of Justice, including each anti-human trafficking training program for Federal, State, or local law enforcement officers, includes technical training on—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc02f83c5-9543-4579-b918-16cd00fa20f2"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">effective methods for investigating and prosecuting covered offenders; and</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc779b408-c43a-40d9-8fcd-5d738b7112f6"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">facilitating the provision of physical and mental health services by health care providers to persons subject to severe forms of trafficking in persons.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida25cfec4-57ea-430a-b626-799a469b5752"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Federal prosecutors</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Attorney General shall ensure that each anti-human trafficking program operated by the Department of Justice for United States attorneys or other Federal prosecutors includes training on seeking restitution for offenses under <external-xref legal-doc="usc-chapter" parsable-cite="usc-chapter/18/77">chapter 77</external-xref> of title 18, United States Code, to ensure that each United States attorney or other Federal prosecutor, upon obtaining a conviction for such an offense, requests a specific amount of restitution for each victim of the offense without regard to whether the victim requests restitution.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="iddafb030d-3cfa-4ed0-9559-986476a213fa"><enum>(C)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Judges</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Federal Judicial Center shall provide training to judges relating to the application of section 1593 of title 18, United States Code, with respect to ordering restitution for victims of offenses under chapter 77 of such title.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id64d1f933-3758-45a0-8443-60b271446eb8"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Policy for Federal law enforcement officers</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Attorney General shall ensure that Federal law enforcement officers are engaged in activities, programs, or operations involving the detection, investigation, and prosecution of covered offenders.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4fbedd24-f410-4f83-a616-06f1d941535d"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Minimum period of supervised release for conspiracy To commit commercial child sex trafficking</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 3583(k) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by inserting <quote>1594(c),</quote> after <quote>1591,</quote>.</text> </subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida484a58c-76ef-4d46-8914-3df2257f1287"><enum>(e)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Bureau of justice statistics report on state enforcement of human trafficking prohibitions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Director of the Bureau of Justice Statistics shall—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id419f7d0a-52a8-42f1-ae7f-6077122eaaed"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">prepare an annual report on—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id28b1577a-69cf-4924-a29a-fa1c00aa9d20"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the rates of—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id97af4d29-ee48-43b4-a56e-9cbf4d7a8cfa"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">arrest of individuals by State law enforcement officers for a covered offense;</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id95797096-8cec-4ca8-a8be-3643001d1440"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">prosecution (including specific charges) of individuals in State court systems for a covered offense; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id235bfb54-7bf5-49a2-b869-f749a5ba1e88"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">conviction of individuals in State court systems for a covered offense; and</text> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idd38b74fb-2453-42ce-a625-372e8f463c43"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">sentences imposed on individuals convicted in State court systems for a covered offense; and</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="iddcd327dc-3581-4556-84c0-6f06f45436be"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">submit the annual report prepared under paragraph (1) to—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5cfd7417-0200-4b54-91a5-83625fbebb52"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id55c7f2e7-7af6-4095-8922-b05ac58974f9"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id021b53ab-3192-4de4-9568-bd00186b947c"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Task Force;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2e1145f2-97f9-4813-924f-34d1d75bd283"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Senior Policy Operating Group established under section 105(g) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/7103">22 U.S.C. 7103(g)</external-xref>); and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id45303fb7-1be6-4f0c-9812-fd08088d69e1"><enum>(E)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Attorney General.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2E6737F6F0F549F7AC33F479751E3BF9" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>115.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Survivors of Human Trafficking Empowerment Act</header> <subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idC80667933BAD47E0BFB6B7E2A9F455A0"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Short title</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">This section may be cited as the <term>Survivors of Human Trafficking Empowerment Act</term>.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id88164F7913AB45FFBB8ADB87F0E38C6B"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Establishment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">There is established the United States Advisory Council on Human Trafficking (referred to in this section as the <term>Council</term>), which shall provide advice and recommendations to the Senior Policy Operating Group established under section 105(g) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/7103">22 U.S.C. 7103(g)</external-xref>) (referred to in this section as the <term>Group</term>) and the President's Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking established under section 105(a) of such Act (referred to in this section as the <term>Task Force</term>).</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4FD51722A0134142A6966AF8256DBDF9"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Membership</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idEA99E5898B234C9B83897741212275D6"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Composition</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Council shall be composed of not less than 8 and not more than 14 individuals who are survivors of human trafficking.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id01722E1C0EF04CC3B0E5C3E3ADBAC1CC"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Representation of survivors</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">To the extent practicable, members of the Council shall be survivors of trafficking, who shall accurately reflect the diverse backgrounds of survivors of trafficking, including—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id13185c3f2e3f4d46b9bff0abd80ecfb1"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">survivors of sex trafficking and survivors of labor trafficking; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3b9848b9ac5843d5b6d5e5eb1dfac0ab"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">survivors who are United States citizens and survivors who are aliens lawfully present in the United States.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5FEF3A3E7F544758B5923519620E7B05"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Appointment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the President shall appoint the members of the Council.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idC5E0BE16078445D98291C776FC6D94D3"><enum>(4)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Term; reappointment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Each member of the Council shall serve for a term of 2 years and may be reappointed by the President to serve 1 additional 2-year term.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id80549e020c49473e950b5aebf5f14e40"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Functions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Council shall—</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idd184875b81a04a8785e161f0be0dcb3b"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">be a nongovernmental advisory body to the Group;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id74315f4f3f124919b3532712205fe74b"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">meet, at its own discretion or at the request of the Group, not less frequently than annually to review Federal Government policy and programs intended to combat human trafficking, including programs relating to the provision of services for victims and serve as a point of contact for Federal agencies reaching out to human trafficking survivors for input on programming and policies relating to human trafficking in the United States;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6df8e7a1e7934609b9f181e2513edb26"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">formulate assessments and recommendations to ensure that policy and programming efforts of the Federal Government conform, to the extent practicable, to the best practices in the field of human trafficking prevention; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idca77f6274b2c4d809a209a48bd7768cc"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">meet with the Group not less frequently than annually, and not later than 45 days before a meeting with the Task Force, to formally present the findings and recommendations of the Council.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb747600d68df451a8235bbe460de733f"><enum>(e)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Reports</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act and each year thereafter until the date described in subsection (h), the Council shall submit a report that contains the findings derived from the reviews conducted pursuant to subsection (d)(2) to—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD874A8EBBA264E798A560D0C0808D552"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the chair of the Task Force;</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idFECAC77D21F84740BE982ED8EA6A15D4"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the members of the Group;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5FEE14502EA14A64B6563C7A154378E1"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Committees on Foreign Affairs, Homeland Security, Appropriations, and the Judiciary of the House of Representatives; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idF1BBE4ADE831400D91188D2273D43BA0"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Committees on Foreign Relations, Appropriations, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, and the Judiciary of the Senate.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2751a92d5c1349408937cab21d725510"><enum>(f)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Employee status</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Members of the Council—</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idd033ce0e40a441348d9913e3c79b4957"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">shall not be considered employees of the Federal Government for any purpose; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3f86ec2cc7084d74a0af0aff5af980a8"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">shall not receive compensation other than reimbursement of travel expenses and per diem allowance in accordance with section 5703 of title 5, United States Code.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida700504bd4ad420b98329174fa818de7"><enum>(g)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Nonapplicability of FACA</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Council shall not be subject to the requirements under the Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App.).</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idda763164326448df82cdef6602b4049d"><enum>(h)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Sunset</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Council shall terminate on September 30, 2020.</text> </subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id152B0B8E405B46E1A1405D0BF58E7291" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>116.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Bringing Missing Children Home Act</header> <subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3E08CDAC6A034FFFB83C6F08C9D0F89D"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Short title</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">This section may be cited as the <quote>Bringing Missing Children Home Act</quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idE22515A7C4DF49D2B722BB3C3E6D40A9"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Crime Control Act amendments</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 3702 of the Crime Control Act of 1990 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/5780">42 U.S.C. 5780</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id49A670D5AA88414D9B5C5B56A6416FD0"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (2), by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9431F1D49E5D49D0AC1C4CA5CF44D246"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (3)—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idE0ED6FDEC01C4DD08A15FCC5944F76E1"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by redesignating subparagraphs (B) and (C) as subparagraphs (C) and (D), respectively; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idE06EDDCCB6DC4342AC509CB585630BE5"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting after subparagraph (A) the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6C12316E9D164F9CB49622C596E015D0" style="OLC"> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6C284F5E7F544485BC7E731ABBEB5960"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a recent photograph of the child, if available;</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idE68840304A8F46C993C401D7468A67F4"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (4)—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idEC13ACC6281F444F805499342A376031"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by striking <quote>paragraph (2)</quote> and inserting <quote>paragraph (3)</quote>;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4CBFA69AED574A6FB37365BF9BFD2B45"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (A)—</text> <clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id62951D1EA43748E399C5F448B07FA701"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>60 days</quote> and inserting <quote>30 days</quote>; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id24F1614717DB4E58A5B7DB5C40D230DD"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting <quote>and a photograph taken during the previous 180 days</quote> after <quote>dental records</quote>;</text> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idC71B28244EC147D9A699A9F08D6ED7F6"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (B), by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5A005373F36C4E25A9F342FB6EF08A3D"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by redesignating subparagraph (C) as subparagraph (D);</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id717D1F1C13C141188D6347CA6DE8E195"><enum>(E)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting after subparagraph (B) the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id016A35BE5A5A4A229CD352BBCD3D8426" style="OLC">
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4395B52E665844C38521CFD845D495F0"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">notify the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children of each report received relating to a child reported missing from a foster care family home or childcare institution;</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id71DDF8380116480EBDE620DAB85DA587"><enum>(F)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (D), as redesignated—</text> <clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA3D7097B76DB4AE19FA5E1F2D283116C"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting <quote>State and local child welfare systems and</quote> before <quote>the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children</quote>; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8FFD307FFED644258F846563BF7DB696"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking the period at the end and inserting <quote>; and</quote>; and</text> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idE40FFC60B7714F1DBF9FEFBC99BBD7DD"><enum>(G)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6D24A479999243A3AEA9200669220EFE" style="OLC">
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id87D324BEA0FB4A8F9DADE10F75B2DF27"><enum>(E)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">grant permission to the National Crime Information Center Terminal Contractor for the State to update the missing person record in the National Crime Information Center computer networks with additional information learned during the investigation relating to the missing person.</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id74688de9-10cd-49b8-8ccb-03920c3ea173" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>117.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Grant accountability</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id84c6730a-e31e-4d5f-86f8-733d3efc24bd"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Definition</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this section, the term <term>covered grant</term> means a grant awarded by the Attorney General under section 203 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2005 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/14044b">42 U.S.C. 14044b</external-xref>), as amended by section 103.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id47800a2e-99bb-4f89-9199-d55bc4396148"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Accountability</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">All covered grants shall be subject to the following accountability provisions:</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idbbbcfad4-b625-425a-87a6-cb9c9c5b7535"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Audit requirement</header>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idcc549b44-24a3-4c22-bee4-717584d2dc45"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Beginning in the first fiscal year beginning after the date of enactment of this Act, and in each fiscal year thereafter, the Inspector General of the Department of Justice shall conduct audits of recipients of a covered grant to prevent waste, fraud, and abuse of funds by grantees. The Inspector General shall determine the appropriate number of grantees to be audited each year.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id82dc6a06-cce3-4ce2-bb66-4c9cc4ce24b9"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Definition</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this paragraph, the term <term>unresolved audit finding</term> means a finding in the final audit report of the Inspector General that the audited grantee has utilized grant funds for an unauthorized expenditure or otherwise unallowable cost that is not closed or resolved within 12 months from the date when the final audit report is issued.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7006f2e3-b43a-4f8a-94e7-941fc94aaf22"><enum>(C)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Mandatory exclusion</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A recipient of a covered grant that is found to have an unresolved audit finding shall not be eligible to receive a covered grant during the following 2 fiscal years.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idac4db016-b819-4cd7-ba18-19033ae528c6"><enum>(D)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Priority</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In awarding covered grants the Attorney General shall give priority to eligible entities that did not have an unresolved audit finding during the 3 fiscal years prior to submitting an application for a covered grant.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id097414b6-c26a-4d62-b7eb-ee3937a840eb"><enum>(E)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Reimbursement</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If an entity is awarded a covered grant during the 2-fiscal-year period in which the entity is barred from receiving grants under subparagraph (C), the Attorney General shall—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idec6ebc08-40bd-4b9e-9dd3-3c64b08eca91"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">deposit an amount equal to the grant funds that were improperly awarded to the grantee into the General Fund of the Treasury; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id91a2cc35-ec8e-49cb-b704-b2a57509e756"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">seek to recoup the costs of the repayment to the fund from the grant recipient that was erroneously awarded grant funds.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id58111688-5cab-440c-a414-099f31976b02"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Nonprofit organization requirements</header>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2066b6a1-c8ae-4c1d-ada6-7ef8d5ef547e"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Definition</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For purposes of this paragraph and covered grants, the term <term>nonprofit organization</term> means an organization that is described in <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/501">section 501(c)(3)</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and is exempt from taxation under section 501(a) of such Code.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1c020ac8-d156-4818-aed1-7f3bf64b2d04"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Prohibition</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Attorney General may not award a covered grant to a nonprofit organization that holds money in offshore accounts for the purpose of avoiding paying the tax described in <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/511">section 511(a)</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id08a98d36-9fb2-4d9c-99f0-6399bc8a694e"><enum>(C)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Disclosure</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Each nonprofit organization that is awarded a covered grant and uses the procedures prescribed in regulations to create a rebuttable presumption of reasonableness for the compensation of its officers, directors, trustees and key employees, shall disclose to the Attorney General, in the application for the grant, the process for determining such compensation, including the independent persons involved in reviewing and approving such compensation, the comparability data used, and contemporaneous substantiation of the deliberation and decision. Upon request, the Attorney General shall make the information disclosed under this subsection available for public inspection.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb3a73526-39bd-445c-a1aa-51bc12db8807"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Conference expenditures</header>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide2ef6a18-8a5e-4659-af65-e909cf5bd38a"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Limitation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">No amounts transferred to the Department of Justice under this title, or the amendments made by this title, may be used by the Attorney General, or by any individual or organization awarded discretionary funds through a cooperative agreement under this title, or the amendments made by this title, to host or support any expenditure for conferences that uses more than $20,000 in Department funds, unless the Deputy Attorney General or such Assistant Attorney Generals, Directors, or principal deputies as the Deputy Attorney General may designate, provides prior written authorization that the funds may be expended to host a conference.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id75a94468-0146-4717-9070-b189937d3873"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Written approval</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Written approval under subparagraph (A) shall include a written estimate of all costs associated with the conference, including the cost of all food and beverages, audiovisual equipment, honoraria for speakers, and any entertainment.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide75e90cf-6b2a-4235-81c7-dc22751ea590"><enum>(C)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Report</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Deputy Attorney General shall submit an annual report to the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate and the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives on all approved conference expenditures referenced in this paragraph.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id71117abf-46b2-4292-9dc7-8fad45f86036"><enum>(D)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Annual certification</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Beginning in the first fiscal year beginning after the date of enactment of this title, the Attorney General shall submit, to the Committee on the Judiciary and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate and the Committee on the Judiciary and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives, an annual certification that—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1b7cb5ca-e501-4078-bd38-54aeeb095fe2"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">all audits issued by the Office of the Inspector General under paragraph (1) have been completed and reviewed by the appropriate Assistant Attorney General or Director;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6e0d4979-b50a-4a3c-bf01-23d4127179c8"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">all mandatory exclusions required under paragraph (1)(C) have been issued;</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc3b600ba-e45a-4dc7-b117-b547f868d8d6"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">all reimbursements required under paragraph (1)(E) have been made; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id398a52c2-083a-4544-a230-361b65c560c0"><enum>(iv)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">includes a list of any grant recipients excluded under paragraph (1) from the previous year.</text> </clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id971c6454-faf4-45df-a2b3-ccf7eacfa475"><enum>(4)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Prohibition on lobbying activity</header> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idbae85998-84d9-48c6-b843-2de20c02bfb2"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Amounts awarded under this title, or any amendments made by this title, may not be utilized by any grant recipient to—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida594442f-7329-4cea-99fd-99079ed28906"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">lobby any representative of the Department of Justice regarding the award of grant funding; or</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide3038d60-940b-4428-93e3-7e0269adb097"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">lobby any representative of a Federal, State, local, or tribal government regarding the award of grant funding.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6084f90a-ca15-4f83-8e46-c6d97d347b80"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Penalty</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If the Attorney General determines that any recipient of a covered grant has violated subparagraph (A), the Attorney General shall—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc154029d-ef1d-4e1c-b409-1e5faaaad28e"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">require the grant recipient to repay the grant in full; and</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idaed3515a-fb2c-4adc-a0f1-245068314147"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">prohibit the grant recipient from receiving another covered grant for not less than 5 years.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idF7129C5CFEAD4AFC813196FD99CA6666" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>118.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">SAVE Act</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD1A44BA2762D4312AB18EC2A4D5482D0"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Short title</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">This section may be cited as the <quote><short-title>Stop Advertising Victims of Exploitation Act of 2015</short-title></quote> or the <quote><short-title>SAVE Act of 2015</short-title></quote>.</text> </subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id11B6DB2992194912B09258B0FDED513F"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Advertising that offers certain commercial acts</header> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idf1e804bd9f5648bc986c77d0e171a005"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 1591(a)(1) of title 18, United States Code, as amended by this Act, is further amended by inserting <quote>advertises,</quote> after <quote>obtains,</quote>.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id009488b086cd470fb2d6925be20c739c"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Mens REA requirement</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 1591(a) of title 18, United States Code, is amended in the undesignated matter following paragraph (2), by inserting <quote>, except where the act constituting the violation of paragraph (1) is advertising,</quote> after <quote>knowing, or</quote>.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id841a50ec6dd9435ba73f3a7b7c88cb66"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Conforming amendments</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 1591(b) of title 18, United States Code, as amended by this Act, is further amended—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idd94124de414f4944839e9a6278487390"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (1), by inserting <quote>advertised,</quote> after <quote>obtained,</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5c3682ca38c64519a5c68d535eb6a920"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (2), by inserting <quote>advertised,</quote> after <quote>obtained,</quote>.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5fad7326dc034de2894241def7c46410" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>119.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Education and outreach to trafficking survivors</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The Attorney General shall make available, on the website of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, a database for trafficking victim advocates, crisis hotline personnel, foster parents, law enforcement personnel, and crime survivors that contains information on—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idAEA9D29E28874B9F8FBF4A801ADDCC9E"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">counseling and hotline resources;</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idFA586579444B4AE88E7919768AD77E85"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">housing resources;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id155E16D3CBF74740BA2EFFECE5F8EA55"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">legal assistance; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idBE770503A85C4C13A95E676A12F13BE9"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">other services for trafficking survivors.</text>
</paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2145f022971144e3bda0b8e4824815fc" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>120.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Expanded statute of limitations for civil actions by child trafficking survivors</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 1595(c) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by striking <quote>not later than 10 years after the cause of action arose.</quote> and inserting “not later than the later of—</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idC94B0EF2DC8F471693DAB4489D34BE37" style="OLC"> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idF9FDD82F7B6D4596B7A79376521DE075"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">10 years after the cause of action arose; or</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5BE8DC61A34B4334A9E1DE27B66F790F"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">10 years after the victim reaches 18 years of age, if the victim was a minor at the time of the alleged offense.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idF5E87FAB1EF240D9A0EC65E536A0CD03" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>121.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">GAO study and report</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD7ABDBD758DB43EB95FBB26ED9058D35"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Study</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Comptroller General of the United States shall conduct a study on each program or initiative authorized under this Act and the following statutes and evaluate whether any program or initiative is duplicative:</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1f6559137eb64fefa5d6b974470a0fa1"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2005 (<external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/109/164">Public Law 109–164</external-xref>; 119 Stat. 3558).</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id513942e911c8432fbc03dbe6478e1f9b"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/7101">22 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.</external-xref>).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4b85307ef51c4b35884e01bc9f542719"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Victims of Child Abuse Act of 1990 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/13001">42 U.S.C. 13001 et seq.</external-xref>).</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7556a35fa2174f8f9983d197055f02fa"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Runaway and Homeless Youth Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/5701">42 U.S.C. 5701 et seq.</external-xref>).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7f3282f7ed7e4369b26f8c5afbe88d88"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Missing Children’s Assistance Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/5771">42 U.S.C. 5771 et seq.</external-xref>).</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id97D5F5DBBF8142BFB78C594A7A6AA084"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Report</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the United States shall submit to the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate and the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives a report on the study conducted under subsection (a), which shall include—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8228300A79794326B5C3730321E40B60"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a description of the cost of any duplicative program or initiative studied under subsection (a); and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2E881444B0EE43F3A5D4E3DE8C9F8B6F"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">recommendations on how to achieve cost savings with respect to each duplicative program or initiative studied under subsection (a).</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><enum>II</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Combating Human Trafficking</header>
<subtitle commented="no" id="idB97E37732B5D48B88A2B9C60C2BE41CD" level-type="subsequent" style="OLC"><enum>A</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Enhancing Services for Runaway and Homeless Victims of Youth Trafficking</header>
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H47E1BD4D607E48DEA226EE580BED5F17" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>201.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Amendments to the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The Runaway and Homeless Youth Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/5701">42 U.S.C. 5701 et seq.</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB594DFC7991B44FAB587865F53BC697E"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in section 343(b)(5) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/5714-23">42 U.S.C. 5714–23(b)(5)</external-xref>)—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H455A21695413467D80584FBBBE6B8AD3"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (A) by inserting <quote>, severe forms of trafficking in persons (as defined in section 103(9) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/7102">22 U.S.C. 7102(9)</external-xref>)), and sex trafficking (as defined in section 103(10) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/7102">22 U.S.C. 7102(10)</external-xref>))</quote> before the semicolon at the end;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HFAA98465DB8847FBA4119C955BFA9406"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (B) by inserting <quote>, severe forms of trafficking in persons (as defined in section 103(9) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/7102">22 U.S.C. 7102(9)</external-xref>)), or sex trafficking (as defined in section 103(10) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/7102">22 U.S.C. 7102(10)</external-xref>))</quote> after <quote>assault</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2E37E5E3DB99420196630E0E1F26360C"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (C) by inserting <quote>, including such youth who are victims of trafficking (as defined in section 103(15) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/7102">22 U.S.C. 7102(15)</external-xref>))</quote> before the semicolon at the end; and</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H688A013B005E48D6A0E6E9CA57E0FBB7"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in section 351(a) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/5714-41">42 U.S.C. 5714–41(a)</external-xref>) by striking <quote>or sexual exploitation</quote> and inserting <quote>sexual exploitation, severe forms of trafficking in persons (as defined in section 103(9) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/7102">22 U.S.C. 7102(9)</external-xref>)), or sex trafficking (as defined in section 103(10) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/7102">22 U.S.C. 7102(10)</external-xref>))</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></section></subtitle><subtitle commented="no" id="id86BB8D20C30C4EBB9B3426F8401B8DE2" level-type="subsequent" style="OLC"><enum>B</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Improving the Response to Victims of Child Sex Trafficking</header>
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idF260F30D174C4D4899F501DB4D54A8A4" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>211.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Response to victims of child sex trafficking</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 404(b)(1)(P)(iii) of the Missing Children’s Assistance Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/5773">42 U.S.C. 5773(b)(1)(P)(iii)</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>child prostitution</quote> and inserting <quote>child sex trafficking, including child prostitution</quote>.</text> </section></subtitle><subtitle commented="no" id="id822FBC201EEC425AAFC75A9377D73586" level-type="subsequent" style="OLC"><enum>C</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking</header> <section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H8F6F87D35328459F8F38D7FEFDDD8880" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>221.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Victim of trafficking defined</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">In this subtitle, the term <term>victim of trafficking</term> has the meaning given such term in section 103 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/7102">22 U.S.C. 7102</external-xref>).</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HBB0D4F1028B64C4ABE5EC1FF97DD4A83" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>222.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Interagency task force report on child trafficking primary prevention</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H9F23C4AFC8474D6E9AC31A8B5A157AF3"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Review</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking, established under section 105 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/7103">22 U.S.C. 7103</external-xref>), shall conduct a review that, with regard to trafficking in persons in the United States—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H858329EC255E485FB18794473B8EEE92"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in consultation with nongovernmental organizations that the Task Force determines appropriate, surveys and catalogs the activities of the Federal Government and State governments—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id13498632B9694736BD1CB225313BE341"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to deter individuals from committing trafficking offenses; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idEEB6F855CB6E4AEC9EC61A80744F3BF6"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to prevent children from becoming victims of trafficking;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H0DB87D0F7E2743B2B85869BD0AC84B87"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">surveys academic literature on—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7277FB56D8F642B29EAFFD082A83624B"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">deterring individuals from committing trafficking offenses;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id567B0BE3730449779EB8892DEA8B8F18"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">preventing children from becoming victims of trafficking;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id04E734049CB54E52BEF30C3BD36DF972"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the commercial sexual exploitation of children; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id31A9B60AB5074A09A7D8F92E1CEE11D2"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">other similar topics that the Task Force determines to be appropriate;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H246327A324CF42D7B523155BDF322623"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">identifies best practices and effective strategies—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6908DE6CE8B54CF3880F33864A8403A9"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to deter individuals from committing trafficking offenses; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id55BABF870BF64BCEAA34C596CE2B79D3"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to prevent children from becoming victims of trafficking; and</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA5E4D9396A6B471BB83467D39371E8F5"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">identifies current gaps in research and data that would be helpful in formulating effective strategies—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4E0F3953155045EE9FF184CAD5B2EF74"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to deter individuals from committing trafficking offenses; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id60DCFBB8F0FE4B4384C6259469C831E5"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to prevent children from becoming victims of trafficking.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H94FA919AE2F14C3898E25B6CDC9CAA8D"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Report</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking shall provide to Congress, and make publicly available in electronic format, a report on the review conducted pursuant to subparagraph (a).</text>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H727B2C4580DB413DBF90B5D3452B4F68" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>223.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">GAO Report on intervention</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">On the date that is 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the United States shall submit a report to Congress that includes information on—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H5EA6E177D9BC46338E4F7693E1889726"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the efforts of Federal and select State law enforcement agencies to combat human trafficking in the United States; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4A915C0FC3454C01B84A597FCB32E40F"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">each Federal grant program, a purpose of which is to combat human trafficking or assist victims of trafficking, as specified in an authorizing statute or in a guidance document issued by the agency carrying out the grant program.</text>
</paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HFEC02BD9959B41E9912933C3B7A2DEDD" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>224.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Provision of housing permitted to protect and assist in the recovery of victims of trafficking</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 107(b)(2)(A) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/7105">22 U.S.C. 7105(b)(2)(A)</external-xref>) is amended by inserting <quote>, including programs that provide housing to victims of trafficking</quote> before the period at the end.</text> </section></subtitle><subtitle commented="no" id="idB2332E9571A14F26A72F836068F0B250" level-type="subsequent" style="OLC"><enum>D</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Expanded training</header> <section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HD70045AEFA424B82A6EF8332C7EA92E1" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>231.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Expanded training relating to trafficking in persons</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 105(c)(4) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/7105">22 U.S.C. 7105(c)(4)</external-xref>) is amended—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H6171C4C0429D456D9CC2CA79DC26AC1D"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>Appropriate personnel</quote> and inserting the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idFAFE650A15254127B2D0D1A086A0036C" style="OLC"> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id990182B019724CFD9AA1C3C0A9A190FA"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Appropriate personnel</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9DF031FC422C4AD48BE154FD55E1E2AF"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (A), as redesignated, by inserting <quote>, including members of the Service (as such term is defined in section 103 of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/3903">22 U.S.C. 3903</external-xref>))</quote> after <quote>Department of State</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2CBCECB85F9F4F07AB8669E374ABE1D2"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id124281E990A44190BDE3295ECFD4C4A8" style="OLC"> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id71FA471028DD4C24BAF330AC7D00AED2"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Training components</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Training under this paragraph shall include—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H6D228A2C76B945A1A4543A0644C32FA6"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a distance learning course on trafficking-in-persons issues and the Department of State’s obligations under this Act, which shall be designed for embassy reporting officers, regional bureaus’ trafficking-in-persons coordinators, and their superiors;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H80D747F4CC2F436D93F09E5FF708C1E7"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">specific trafficking-in-persons briefings for all ambassadors and deputy chiefs of mission before such individuals depart for their posts; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H73E1C54BCD264C1E939ECA1459356321"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">at least annual reminders to all personnel referred to in clauses (i) and (ii), including appropriate personnel from other Federal departments and agencies, at each diplomatic or consular post of the Department of State located outside the United States of—</text>
<subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9F38F49D91DE42D69D53BAD8A1FF63BC"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">key problems, threats, methods, and warning signs of trafficking in persons specific to the country or jurisdiction in which each such post is located; and</text>
</subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7B23E15AB1774DE398DEDA56C46D1491"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">appropriate procedures to report information that any such personnel may acquire about possible cases of trafficking in persons.</text></subclause></clause></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></section></subtitle><enum>III</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">HERO Act</header>
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idba0449f37c20451cb4c0135c758e6a82" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>301.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Short title</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">This title may be cited as the <quote><short-title>Human Exploitation Rescue Operations Act of 2015</short-title></quote> or the <quote><short-title>HERO Act of 2015</short-title></quote>.</text> </section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2A8CE7A29019495D97115FB533910093" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>302.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">HERO Act</header> <subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idB2E31DF9BB214ACEB0A111586BEC0413"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Findings</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Congress finds the following:</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id41c2815731ba4051bda9b108bf01c9d0"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The illegal market for the production and distribution of child abuse imagery is a growing threat to children in the United States. International demand for this material creates a powerful incentive for the rape, abuse, and torture of children within the United States.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id49379776922c487da5268969414ddad2"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The targeting of United States children by international criminal networks is a threat to the homeland security of the United States. This threat must be fought with trained personnel and highly specialized counter-child-exploitation strategies and technologies.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb494881e1db449c7864165c6c406cff3"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement of the Department of Homeland Security serves a critical national security role in protecting the United States from the growing international threat of child exploitation and human trafficking.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide251d153de4041e389c61cd60b59e423"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Cyber Crimes Center of the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement is a vital national resource in the effort to combat international child exploitation, providing advanced expertise and assistance in investigations, computer forensics, and victim identification.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida5a8dcb63f504058be7adc7d1940c111"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The returning military heroes of the United States possess unique and valuable skills that can assist law enforcement in combating global sexual and child exploitation, and the Department of Homeland Security should use this national resource to the maximum extent possible.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id908da2dc81db46eaae28339372b4d7b2"><enum>(6)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Through the Human Exploitation Rescue Operative (HERO) Child Rescue Corps program, the returning military heroes of the United States are trained and hired to investigate crimes of child exploitation in order to target predators and rescue children from sexual abuse and slavery.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc716b562208946dc930508efb4ea2ca1"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Cyber crimes center, child exploitation investigations unit, and computer forensics unit</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id22E8CA521319482E83105D5E770FD4DA"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subtitle H of title VIII of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/6/451">6 U.S.C. 451 et seq.</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idf13e6d6b108d4fefb9d0c3fdb92cfa1c" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>890A.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Cyber crimes center, child exploitation investigations unit, computer forensics unit, and cyber
crimes unit</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7682c1a9902a47db9f2ceeba9f775ee2"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Cyber crimes center</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9be48a1f8f3246e995c812a10086086f"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary shall operate, within United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a Cyber Crimes Center (referred to in this section as the <quote>Center</quote>).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2858ee864c7f44ebb57ca24bba458f2c"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Purpose</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The purpose of the Center shall be to provide investigative assistance, training, and equipment to support United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s domestic and international investigations of cyber-related crimes.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idd87d82b0013046ca9579ff8cd2e21ac9"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Child exploitation investigations unit</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5002f5c467934126ab2ac5646b6c18da"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary shall operate, within the Center, a Child Exploitation Investigations Unit (referred to in this subsection as the <quote>CEIU</quote>).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id393563217ce541be93b41b199be43364"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Functions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The CEIU—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id949491a4d99e45d6bcc3cc0769beb3c6"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">shall coordinate all United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement child exploitation initiatives, including investigations into—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide758c10a97824a9b8df74949b4793156"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">child exploitation;</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb2b00c4c74de49e9a5c9ab384b899f5c"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">child pornography;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9ddd6172d5ac4430aee96b430aa86036"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">child victim identification;</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc26e4e6dc8e048909e604d6171aa37b7"><enum>(iv)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">traveling child sex offenders; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id44ba0a9d3f7448749ecfdb35d9e27b22"><enum>(v)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">forced child labor, including the sexual exploitation of minors;</text> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida611aa6f60524a6fba49ba426c43ef1f"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">shall, among other things, focus on—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id75b576e4982442c99daeecd92a54506d"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">child exploitation prevention;</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5486b63efc614012ae6fc51b8bc9ef60"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">investigative capacity building;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2ae9e0ea1c99429aa3a17b0998c94056"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">enforcement operations; and</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2df3124d319349aa89b5b500c8de0bd9"><enum>(iv)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">training for Federal, State, local, tribal, and foreign law enforcement agency personnel, upon request;</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida54eae3836cb420cab3e376b8628e84a"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">shall provide training, technical expertise, support, or coordination of child exploitation investigations, as needed, to cooperating law enforcement agencies and personnel;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5cef996b31a14820a13d906449c69363"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">shall provide psychological support and counseling services for United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel engaged in child exploitation prevention initiatives, including making available other existing services to assist employees who are exposed to child exploitation material during investigations;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idedb21a6eec2f461abc804c19c585c357"><enum>(E)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is authorized to collaborate with the Department of Defense and the National Association to Protect Children for the purpose of the recruiting, training, equipping and hiring of wounded, ill, and injured veterans and transitioning service members, through the Human Exploitation Rescue Operative (HERO) Child Rescue Corps program; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id363fa422d2b14eeaacf08c5423436c75"><enum>(F)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">shall collaborate with other governmental, nongovernmental, and nonprofit entities approved by the Secretary for the sponsorship of, and participation in, outreach and training activities.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="iddaef2c017711454c99a4e4d63f775a5d"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Data collection</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The CEIU shall collect and maintain data concerning—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida04c7d6798f34f0692e8324241d8eff6"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the total number of suspects identified by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3f98ccde48474de8a474f57ea62e5930"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the number of arrests by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement, disaggregated by type, including—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2c851d35f40f41b7aff935dc698ee9ca"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the number of victims identified through investigations carried out by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide73786fbdf1b4856a2ec448af8f842b9"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the number of suspects arrested who were in positions of trust or authority over children;</text> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide8f14148750247e08d5e5404661b6b47"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the number of cases opened for investigation by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7f0ee14bf3194703872aa55cb6afebf2"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the number of cases resulting in a Federal, State, foreign, or military prosecution.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idf9fcde62eb04448db93f06136ec9804f"><enum>(4)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Availability of data to Congress</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In addition to submitting the reports required under paragraph (7), the CEIU shall make the data collected and maintained under paragraph (3) available to the committees of Congress described in paragraph (7).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc90207883fa94931841fae60d9064c1e"><enum>(5)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Cooperative agreements</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The CEIU is authorized to enter into cooperative agreements to accomplish the functions set forth in paragraphs (2) and (3).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4121b0684713443791c1e6456b6cf129"><enum>(6)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Acceptance of gifts</header>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6b287d7df5254f54a4959babc33eb4aa"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary is authorized to accept monies and in-kind donations from the Virtual Global Taskforce, national laboratories, Federal agencies, not-for-profit organizations, and educational institutions to create and expand public awareness campaigns in support of the functions of the CEIU.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id683349e29e0a49099fa5db2b040c977b"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Exemption from Federal acquisition regulation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Gifts authorized under subparagraph (A) shall not be subject to the Federal Acquisition Regulation for competition when the services provided by the entities referred to in such subparagraph are donated or of minimal cost to the Department.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id48106638329e4ceabdc4577916b55121"><enum>(7)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Reports</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of the <short-title>HERO Act of 2015</short-title>, and annually for the following 4 years, the CEIU shall—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id33a9bb4c90b64723ac9c6647315d61fe"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">submit a report containing a summary of the data collected pursuant to paragraph (3) during the previous year to—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id426d8f48b94a43e785460acc8065f60d"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate;</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb99126d0773949cb96d3ef2abf782b2f"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id45384a3d718e4abaa2439a576cad2ea6"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate;</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id075df676c7f649f68a55468652f9cb24"><enum>(iv)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id10d3fac171364a66955612c4f6fbff3c"><enum>(v)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives; and</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idae9c228ab5e44262ac9632a984e91461"><enum>(vi)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives; and</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6389300c911f41cf84590e562a227461"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">make a copy of each report submitted under subparagraph (A) publicly available on the website of the Department.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8e1c088115ae49ba92299ab1e7ecadfc"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Computer forensics unit</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7d09cab020d047f48a041f32e5e8b7dd"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary shall operate, within the Center, a Computer Forensics Unit (referred to in this subsection as the <quote>CFU</quote>).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2de8ff8dfaff4807b2b5054d506f6923"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Functions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The CFU—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1d0a1aeb681149458bea5f00e75ab317"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">shall provide training and technical support in digital forensics to—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5f87dd720a2a4587a931bf29616e6897"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel; and</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id76eea9167508455d93aa6a681d4b6315"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Federal, State, local, tribal, military, and foreign law enforcement agency personnel engaged in the investigation of crimes within their respective jurisdictions, upon request and subject to the availability of funds;</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id19d9bc2ce2814da8bd876d457d0ec9e9"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">shall provide computer hardware, software, and forensic licenses for all computer forensics personnel within United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id91f17fb4cd3a47598f8b50982b913523"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">shall participate in research and development in the area of digital forensics, in coordination with appropriate components of the Department; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id956e68b5aa434db9b8df0c7c1d4eb5e8"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is authorized to collaborate with the Department of Defense and the National Association to Protect Children for the purpose of recruiting, training, equipping, and hiring wounded, ill, and injured veterans and transitioning service members, through the Human Exploitation Rescue Operative (HERO) Child Rescue Corps program.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1aa788bb483d4e8ea672846d74d2237a"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Cooperative agreements</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The CFU is authorized to enter into cooperative agreements to accomplish the functions set forth in paragraph (2).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idff3fa0bf28a94ff2bc831c0bf7a6c6ea"><enum>(4)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Acceptance of gifts</header>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1de67c3d58af456489d8be92f18d335c"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary is authorized to accept monies and in-kind donations from the Virtual Global Task Force, national laboratories, Federal agencies, not-for-profit organizations, and educational institutions to create and expand public awareness campaigns in support of the functions of the CFU.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1995dfa3b30d4419bce614324382b05d"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Exemption from Federal acquisition regulation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Gifts authorized under subparagraph (A) shall not be subject to the Federal Acquisition Regulation for competition when the services provided by the entities referred to in such subparagraph are donated or of minimal cost to the Department.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idd7e0ac135cdc4567b555a94fc4052975"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Cyber crimes unit</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id56a64595629f4739a2618558e766e24f"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary shall operate, within the Center, a Cyber Crimes Unit (referred to in this subsection as the <quote>CCU</quote>).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id45398ac968c54f14b47419dce8a17b96"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Functions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The CCU—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8b12fb31715f4e06899838aeb5526d8c"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">shall oversee the cyber security strategy and cyber-related operations and programs for United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6436d033f21642279bfb337801ca6655"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">shall enhance United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s ability to combat criminal enterprises operating on or through the Internet, with specific focus in the areas of—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8098a8a2c8034d7d92eb72eedc33f6de"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">cyber economic crime;</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idcbd0f20c64bf4c188b424701b0f9b830"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">digital theft of intellectual property;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1bba373648d64942b9f302c67cf95810"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">illicit e-commerce (including hidden marketplaces);</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8357f47b10c44c8789866cd015e150d8"><enum>(iv)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Internet-facilitated proliferation of arms and strategic technology; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1fb50e0625284b18a2be2da29834a19e"><enum>(v)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">cyber-enabled smuggling and money laundering;</text> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8d0a1c0f542b408e940749ab4e242564"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">shall provide training and technical support in cyber investigations to—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id52a3be0e09394205aea69559f7fec078"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel; and</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id06c56e81a96243cc9502bfa5fa41c3cc"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Federal, State, local, tribal, military, and foreign law enforcement agency personnel engaged in the investigation of crimes within their respective jurisdictions, upon request and subject to the availability of funds;</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida09831b7f264429bafe2f59c4bdb85f6"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">shall participate in research and development in the area of cyber investigations, in coordination with appropriate components of the Department; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb2f90d1a61d84a48a5d0ca99e5119a20"><enum>(E)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is authorized to recruit participants of the Human Exploitation Rescue Operative (HERO) Child Rescue Corps program for investigative and forensic positions in support of the functions of the CCU.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5bb54eaf9fcd4e3e8f1030844f93b083"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Cooperative agreements</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The CCU is authorized to enter into cooperative agreements to accomplish the functions set forth in paragraph (2).</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id76A3EE8113FC48FBB0CD2ED4A40D0CD7"><enum>(e)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Authorization of appropriations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">There are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary such sums as are necessary to carry out this section.</text></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3E5CBF3A0D534527A9F5EC29C8BB11AE"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Table of contents amendment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The table of contents in section 1(b) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/6/101">6 U.S.C. 101</external-xref> note) is amended by adding after the item relating to section 890 the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA4528F60AAA1492787A642E88F6BC4B7" style="OLC"><toc><toc-entry bold="off" level="section">Sec. 890A. Cyber crimes center, child exploitation investigations unit, computer forensics
unit, and cyber crimes unit.</toc-entry></toc><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idcd9be04c1ad14713b805943306472dc3"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">HERO corps hiring</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">It is the sense of Congress that Homeland Security Investigations of the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement should hire, recruit, train, and equip wounded, ill, or injured military veterans (as defined in section 101, title 38, United States Code) who are affiliated with the HERO Child Rescue Corps program for investigative, intelligence, analyst, and forensic positions.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8e9fde5732cc45179506c169a17ff752"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Investigating child exploitation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 307(b)(3) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/6/187">6 U.S.C. 187(b)(3)</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2ed4cfb2370543849b9f14ce93eeb739"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (B), by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0e3e7054568649e58e9a5dff16221603"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (C), by striking the period at the end and inserting <quote>; and</quote>; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida274922365844f7596a1b0eece065338"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idaf9b649eca4a422da3fa3dbf74021329" style="OLC">
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id78dd9c0d4a4d4a93a9444a9edd055611"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">conduct research and development for the purpose of advancing technology for the investigation of child exploitation crimes, including child victim identification, trafficking in persons, and child pornography, and for advanced forensics.</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idCE88A3B414B64DC8ADFA2425B987AD6D" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>303.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Transportation for illegal sexual activity and related crimes</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc-chapter" parsable-cite="usc-chapter/18/117">Chapter 117</external-xref> of title 18, United States Code, is amended by striking section 2421 and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD0868B45381A47A290202FCDAC04DF86" style="USC">
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idBF29B360BC5B4AF2A93713F1A2DB60A5" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>2421.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Transportation generally</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0FAE2E985135431BB15F75C96F48CEBF"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Whoever knowingly transports any individual in interstate or foreign commerce, or in any Territory or Possession of the United States, with intent that such individual engage in prostitution, or in any sexual activity for which any person can be charged with a criminal offense, or attempts to do so, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idEF2E4A674F054E59BC332F81A3624FAB"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Requests To prosecute violations by State attorneys general</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5B87ADFED86C4EDF9D327EA3BE9CE997"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Attorney General shall grant a request by a State attorney general that a State or local attorney be cross designated to prosecute a violation of this section unless the Attorney General determines that granting the request would undermine the administration of justice.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3C90C7B1C2F341D0B559F5B666DCE56B"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Reason for denial</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If the Attorney General denies a request under paragraph (1), the Attorney General shall submit to the State attorney general a detailed reason for the denial not later than 60 days after the date on which a request is received.</text></paragraph></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</section><enum>IV</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Rape survivor child custody</header>
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2248F619B72A45D7A4285A3ACEB4C2F5" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>401.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Short title</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">This title may be cited as the <quote><short-title>Rape Survivor Child Custody Act</short-title></quote>.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0D79D4A37712476487680FC8FE27E1D8" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>402.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Definitions</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">In this title:</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id379DE4A4225F404997A1BD021E179223"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Covered formula grant</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>covered formula grant</term> means a grant under—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id42A6E71D4A6849ED9E89C57511B489C6"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">part T of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/3796gg">42 U.S.C. 3796gg et seq.</external-xref>) (commonly referred to as the <quote>STOP Violence Against Women Formula Grant Program</quote>); or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9A76E4942FA14D91B9971C63C38075E9"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">section 41601 of the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/14043g">42 U.S.C. 14043g</external-xref>) (commonly referred to as the <quote>Sexual Assault Services Program</quote>).</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2C22FB50B52D437A928D9FB23A21822C"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Termination</header>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idF8BA152E5F1B437FADD08977E12E47A0"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>termination</term> means, when used with respect to parental rights, a complete and final termination of the parent’s right to custody of, guardianship of, visitation with, access to, and inheritance from a child.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9CB2BCC0E7EF45CBB49F3A038C55AE80"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Rule of
construction</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to require a State, in order to receive an increase in the amount provided to the State under the covered formula grants under this title, to have in place a law that terminates any obligation of a person who fathered a child through rape to support the child.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9DDBE7626BC949129100C952B375AB47" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>403.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Findings</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Congress finds the following:</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idEE745D3510EC494582FA5ECE747ED61E"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Men who father children through rape should be prohibited from visiting or having custody of those children.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3930CAB6EF164EF6904F5AC82AD0EE53"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Thousands of rape-related pregnancies occur annually in the United States.</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idF72FB998B0E84199AE0121746D0A3504"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A substantial number of women choose to raise their child conceived through rape and, as a result, may face custody battles with their rapists.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA3079E46BAEB45158DDAD00FBA5E3265"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Rape is one of the most under-prosecuted serious crimes, with estimates of criminal conviction occurring in less than 5 percent of rapes.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6CEB1C6D60B6468DBBE0D3F4C147C4F9"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The clear and convincing evidence standard is the most common standard for termination of parental rights among the 50 States, territories, and the District of Columbia.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8195CA473C044F3E8E45447DF0A8944C"><enum>(6)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Supreme Court established that the clear and convincing evidence standard satisfies due process for allegations to terminate or restrict parental rights in Santosky v. Kramer (455 U.S. 745 (1982)).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idB3F5479900D54B87BA39CD1323DA281F"><enum>(7)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Currently only 10 States have statutes allowing rape survivors to petition for the termination of parental rights of the rapist based on clear and convincing evidence that the child was conceived through rape.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA1161A28F1444717B66905453D330796"><enum>(8)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A rapist pursuing parental or custody rights causes the survivor to have continued interaction with the rapist, which can have traumatic psychological effects on the survivor, and can make it more difficult for her to recover.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idFE50FEBA18ED480BA1EA921C7C12D07B"><enum>(9)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">These traumatic effects on the mother can severely negatively impact her ability to raise a healthy child.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3C58E652B6604EDFBA10F17066C72C4E"><enum>(10)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Rapists may use the threat of pursuing custody or parental rights to coerce survivors into not prosecuting rape, or otherwise harass, intimidate, or manipulate them.</text>
</paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idF37C674511B04F6791AA512E3D3FD50F" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>404.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Increased funding for formula grants authorized</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The Attorney General shall increase the amount provided to a State under the covered formula grants in accordance with this title if the State has in place a law that allows the mother of any child that was conceived through rape to seek court-ordered termination of the parental rights of her rapist with regard to that child, which the court is authorized to grant upon clear and convincing evidence of rape.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id04D409C8B5B2468B9DA9EFEA7CDAA43E" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>405.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Application</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">A State seeking an increase in the amount provided to the State under the covered formula grants shall include in the application of the State for each covered formula grant such information as the Attorney General may reasonably require, including information about the law described in section 404.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idAA2E04239F7241CB97544383FAAD5E08" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>406.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Grant
increase</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The amount of the increase provided to a State under the covered formula grants under this title shall be equal to not more than 10 percent of the average of the total amount of funding provided to the State under the covered formula grants under the 3 most recent awards to the State.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id70B008C8CFE340E7869F8C72F8EDD2FA" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>407.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Period of increase</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idC548D74F3BFC4A52A52A05F30C5F8664"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Attorney General shall provide an increase in the amount provided to a State under the covered formula grants under this title for a 2-year period.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id39791FE4EBCD4A958E9CD1532F5801EF"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Limit</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Attorney General may not provide an increase in the amount provided to a State under the covered formula grants under this title more than 4 times.</text>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9CD369AF91AA46219A43DD5662B5EE71" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>408.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Allocation of increased formula grant funds</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The Attorney General shall allocate an increase in the amount provided to a State under the covered formula grants under this title such that—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA1198AC188F34EFF9591CF5635F59CDD"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">25 percent the amount of the increase is provided under the program described in section 402(1)(A); and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id22C3656E2B434DADBE643C21EBF35D42"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">75 percent the amount of the increase is provided under the program described in section 402(1)(B).</text>
</paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idE408691AD7134632BE2B20E2760FA287" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>409.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Authorization of
appropriations</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this title $5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2015 through 2019.</text>
</section><enum>V</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Military sex offender reporting</header>
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3144F86965D24CA1A397DA5B26D06277" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>501.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Short title</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">This title may be cited as the <quote><short-title>Military Sex Offender Reporting Act of 2015</short-title></quote>.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idE9865910A509417789C4A61ECC74C8A6" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>502.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Registration of sex offenders released from military corrections facilities or upon conviction</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id759C29023BF848B1A735FBDA447F0386"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act is amended by inserting after section 128 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/16928">42 U.S.C. 16928</external-xref>) the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8E1CAC8FDC154D07A485257152415C82" style="OLC">
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6FEF4EDEF1DA48EBAE3F942292720ABB" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>128A.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Registration of sex offenders released from military corrections facilities or upon conviction</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The Secretary of Defense shall provide to the Attorney General the information described in section 114 to be included in the National Sex Offender Registry and the Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public Website regarding persons—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idEF3B2E94FCC14E04A30DE9D0D6C67244"><enum>(1)</enum><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="id56038A232CB84647B035E66ACFCF6F14"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">released from military corrections facilities; or</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idCD7B984BEA7D48EB82516CB380B7CDEF" indent="up1"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">convicted if the sentences adjudged by courts-martial under <external-xref legal-doc="usc-chapter" parsable-cite="usc-chapter/10/47">chapter 47</external-xref> of title 10, United States Code (the Uniform Code of Military Justice), do not include confinement; and</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA84C41D3C7634F2D991CAB35B2A33F77"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">required to register under this title.</text></paragraph></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id553A69A3F37C48AC975369A5EF0F1FA3"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Technical and conforming amendment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The table of contents of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 128 the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id88d564c9-1bc7-4dd7-94a8-26a6469fd151" style="OLC"><toc><toc-entry bold="off" idref="id6FEF4EDEF1DA48EBAE3F942292720ABB" level="section">Sec. 128A. Registration of sex offenders released from military corrections facilities or upon
conviction.</toc-entry></toc><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection></section><enum>VI</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Stopping Exploitation Through Trafficking</header>
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idF3AF873ED9AC46FBBD9F25A647E4D8A8" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>601.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Safe Harbor Incentives</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Part Q of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/3796dd">42 U.S.C. 3796dd et seq.</external-xref>) is amended—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0CE59F6B5B63419A923702A718707F1A"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in section 1701(c), by striking <quote>where feasible</quote> and all that follows, and inserting the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="idAAC28F552DBF47A1A3D88EF68A8D6B2B" style="OLC"> <text>where feasible, to an application—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3414105099B54B28BC1378A61E1756E8"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">for hiring and rehiring additional career law enforcement officers that involves a non-Federal contribution exceeding the 25 percent minimum under subsection (g); or</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idBB7496B6E3F7449FBF63611D880EA613"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">from an applicant in a State that has in effect a law that—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id97F0DE23DA5249EC9CE5C5277D5FB40A"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">treats a minor who has engaged in, or has attempted to engage in, a commercial sex act as a victim of a severe form of trafficking in persons;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idBC36EC5A276B49389669C70FCEC19B65"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">discourages or prohibits the charging or prosecution of an individual described in subparagraph (A) for a prostitution or sex trafficking offense, based on the conduct described in subparagraph (A); and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5C13EFB077DB4C75BF4C54BA5065528D"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">encourages the diversion of an individual described in subparagraph (A) to appropriate service providers, including child welfare services, victim treatment programs, child advocacy centers, rape crisis centers, or other social services.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>; and </after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id810375202335471D90F058AEDD24004E"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in section 1709, by inserting at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4D5AA43493534D2283E89954EC061F1F" style="OLC"> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idC27BD758801E4354A279F421A6E5DEF0"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><term>commercial sex act</term> has the meaning given the term in section 103 of the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/7102">22 U.S.C. 7102</external-xref>).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2B3DE646C7FF4D6E91C1692D528E5B97"><enum>(6)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><term>minor</term> means an individual who has not attained the age of 18 years.</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9D1E3CFE320F4B56AABB0FF5FD72471A"><enum>(7)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><term>severe form of trafficking in persons</term> has the meaning given the term in section 103 of the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/7102">22 U.S.C. 7102</external-xref>).</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id324748B62EE943A3831C2F8E397036C1" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>602.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Report on restitution paid in connection with certain trafficking offenses</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 105(d)(7)(Q) of the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/7103">22 U.S.C. 7103(d)(7)(Q)</external-xref>) is amended—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idEF24D942735A4915A876672EAFCBA85F"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting after <quote>1590,</quote> the following: <quote>1591,</quote>;</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6275D1A4B4FA4490B8B933E8C8100B20"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>and 1594</quote> and inserting <quote>1594, 2251, 2251A, 2421, 2422, and 2423</quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id875429E3560D41C2B39D962B23B50D99"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in clause (iv), by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end;</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idBDB2438107C442C18981C0EBC7CBA3B7"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in clause (v), by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id45720A5F1DCA4C09969C3566DA29A6AB"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting after clause (v) the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD833FEDEED5D4CFCBDAAF9E5ADE9A812" style="OLC"> <clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9FD5180F24B9457E8CDB89C379422363"><enum>(vi)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the number of individuals required by a court order to pay restitution in connection with a violation of each offense under title 18, United States Code, the amount of restitution required to be paid under each such order, and the amount of restitution actually paid pursuant to each such order; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id853F3B13BD974B749C042D378E2BEDC6"><enum>(vii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the age, gender, race, country of origin, country of citizenship, and description of the role in the offense of individuals convicted under each offense; and</text></clause><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id13C1B674AF044BECB7BB5D0A1B80B560" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>603.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">National human trafficking hotline</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 107(b)(1)(B) of the Victims of Crime Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/7105">22 U.S.C. 7105(b)(1)(B)</external-xref>) is amended—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id21D901206B664262AD5FCFA45A185287"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>Subject</quote> and inserting the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id321EB9FFB3A84203B084EDF57F77D450" style="OLC"> <clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id637306633DD147ACA155D5844424E0B5"><enum>(i)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subject</text></clause><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4799D736576B4A9EAFEB19CD631FBA9E"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id18983B83DB5347ED996AB71F68DFE3B7" style="OLC"> <clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id22E8375416C04F03A011C2D20FB5D3FE"><enum>(ii)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">National human trafficking hotline</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Beginning in fiscal year 2017, and in each fiscal year thereafter, of amounts made available for grants under paragraph (2), the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall make grants for a national communication system to assist victims of severe forms of trafficking in persons in communicating with service providers. The Secretary shall give priority to grant applicants that have experience in providing telephone services to victims of severe forms of trafficking in persons.</text></clause><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idBDD094589FA24C3494251FF004E89528" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>604.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Job corps eligibility</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 144(a)(3) of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/29/3194">29 U.S.C. 3194(a)(3)</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id340B70D328AA4922B7852D1BAE50A4C0"><enum>(F)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A victim of a severe form of trafficking in persons (as defined in section 103 of the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/7102">22 U.S.C. 7102</external-xref>)). Notwithstanding paragraph (2), an individual described in this subparagraph shall not be required to demonstrate eligibility under such paragraph.</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id46DDC7850153469FA690ED8CAAAE03B8" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>605.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Clarification of authority of the United States Marshals Service</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 566(e)(1) of title 28, United States Code, is amended—</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6EFE432B200F4156AC040A86069CE548"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (B), by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id863407197D5446C5BBB6904766E3A9DF"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (C), by striking the period at the end and inserting <quote>; and</quote>; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idAFA5853D45C241668C170A3221E1A327"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting after subparagraph (C) the following:</text>
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<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4D7B774EF6044D7A8044AEB22749132F"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">assist State, local, and other Federal law enforcement agencies, upon the request of such an agency, in locating and recovering missing children.</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idd8ad9572762f4a9da1ae4218b1b04ecb" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>606.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Establishing a national strategy to combat human trafficking</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida1f58d61cf65479d8ba63ae511274530"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Attorney General shall implement and maintain a National Strategy for Combating Human Trafficking (referred to in this section as the <quote>National Strategy</quote>) in accordance with this section.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idabda19fc8d6c4e8ab846f38d6ac5ac95"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Required contents of national strategy</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The National Strategy shall include the following:</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idfc8fb09b14d8479fb0a133cf373f3e87"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Integrated Federal, State, local, and tribal efforts to investigate and prosecute human trafficking cases, including—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id00f52e2710324cf58e6bd6619dec0449"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the development by each United States attorney, in consultation with State, local, and tribal government agencies, of a district-specific strategic plan to coordinate the identification of victims and the investigation and prosecution of human trafficking crimes;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0bf606de1dbf4fcaaba4f44adacbc6a8"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the appointment of not fewer than 1 assistant United States attorney in each district dedicated to the prosecution of human trafficking cases or responsible for implementing the National Strategy;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id86801bc82e9947308e1af6a5b25edeb3"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the participation in any Federal, State, local, or tribal human trafficking task force operating in the district of the United States attorney; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idd59ec9a0958f4c99808b0e22be423c56"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">any other efforts intended to enhance the level of coordination and cooperation, as determined by the Attorney General.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6beed79a02e64c0cac94d098988de17e"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Case coordination within the Department of Justice, including specific integration, coordination, and collaboration, as appropriate, on human trafficking investigations between and among the United States attorneys, the Human Trafficking Prosecution Unit, the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id99edf8061cf74d4c8b0c384a8f1a1642"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Annual budget priorities and Federal efforts dedicated to preventing and combating human trafficking, including resources dedicated to the Human Trafficking Prosecution Unit, the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and all other entities that receive Federal support that have a goal or mission to combat the exploitation of adults and children.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2eb15fc1effa4d1a9d107b1e86861893"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An ongoing assessment of the future trends, challenges, and opportunities, including new investigative strategies, techniques, and technologies, that will enhance Federal, State, local, and tribal efforts to combat human trafficking.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id56476a801e154166a5a0d338d11eff3d"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Encouragement of cooperation, coordination, and mutual support between private sector and other entities and organizations and Federal agencies to combat human trafficking, including the involvement of State, local, and tribal government agencies to the extent Federal programs are involved.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><enum>VII</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Trafficking Awareness Training for Health Care</header>
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idC0C343576B4449FD9563B392F047D8E4" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>701.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Short title</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">This title may be cited as the <quote><short-title>Trafficking Awareness Training for Health Care Act of 2015</short-title></quote>.</text> </section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idADD7333633884C93975757EA69B9D0A5" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>702.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Development of best practices</header> <subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H51B996FA2CFE4A4FB152F35B1500C0AA"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Grant or contract for development of best practices</header> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id69C86577A62747458BDFF15EC0301A0D"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Health and Human Services acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration, and in consultation with the Administration on Children and Families and other agencies with experience in serving victims of human trafficking, shall award, on a competitive basis, a grant or contract to an eligible entity to train health care professionals to recognize and respond to victims of a severe form of trafficking.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idE804C0B297614CC7A6E9A82EF32EA038"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Development of evidence-based best practices</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An entity receiving a grant under paragraph (1) shall develop evidence-based best practices for health care professionals to recognize and respond to victims of a severe form of trafficking, including—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idBD02F532DF464CD199F6E9E6DC5E35C9"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">consultation with law enforcement officials, social service providers, health professionals, experts in the field of human trafficking, and other experts, as appropriate, to inform the development of such best practices;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id16FCFA1832FC47628DE6B3D656C3165B"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the identification of any existing best practices or tools for health professionals to recognize potential victims of a severe form of trafficking; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5FD89233D02D46FD8CD209B3A1EE9F31"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the development of educational materials to train health care professionals on the best practices developed under this subsection.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idF5111DA2242341D68F8AAB2922BE0B3C"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Requirements</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Best practices developed under this subsection shall address—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7FA4C6C45CCF4883BD75F6EDDC7800DD"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">risk factors and indicators to recognize victims of a severe form of trafficking;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2F0FAE8E63944CC69BCF14F6F6EF38D6"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">patient safety and security;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idBD6FFB27FFDD41CD800A407B6E358F2D"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the management of medical records of patients who are victims of a severe form of trafficking;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id507C75822A594867AE16F8017AE43FBD"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">public and private social services available for rescue, food, clothing, and shelter referrals;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idFCAB86A724A049F487CC72FED30413B5"><enum>(E)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the hotlines for reporting human trafficking maintained by the National Human Trafficking Resource Center and the Department of Homeland Security;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id374E65303B2D47F692F62638E2E56D1E"><enum>(F)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">validated assessment tools for the identification of victims of a severe form of trafficking; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8862C5A5A5844B6A828822525C9EB426"><enum>(G)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">referral options and procedures for sharing information on human trafficking with a patient and making referrals for legal and social services as appropriate.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA8FC2AFA56614B31919D662F5AEE37FF"><enum>(4)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Pilot program</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An entity receiving a grant under paragraph (1) shall design and implement a pilot program to test the best practices and educational materials identified or developed with respect to the recognition of victims of human trafficking by health professionals at health care sites located near an established anti-human trafficking task force initiative in each of the 10 administrative regions of the Department of Health and Human Services.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1665785982FC464DA22FAF1877A568F9"><enum>(5)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Analysis and report</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 24 months after the date on which an entity implements a pilot program under paragraph (4), the entity shall—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idCDEB6E4392F94A61AEE793CD5B9ABCC8"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">analyze the results of the pilot programs, including through an assessment of—</text> <clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2FDFFECA6D1A4833A740DF93DFD37064"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">changes in the skills, knowledge, and attitude of health care professionals resulting from the implementation of the program;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0465F8530D5D441E9B8BA4545B01C264"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the number of victims of a severe form of trafficking who were identified under the program;</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3F3ACA23164A4450970D3A64F1B4EA41"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">of those victims identified, the number who received information or referrals for services offered; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id99482EAAFFB34B0EB0DC488B39898CAD"><enum>(iv)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">of those victims who received such information or referrals—</text> <subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7AF32A6984054531A9D14EC6D543BB00"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the number who participated in follow up services; and</text>
</subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id53FE20AF42F04AEBA356656CA078DAF7"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the type of follow up services received;</text> </subclause></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA833A410B31843E3BD8155CEF926BE25"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">determine, using the results of the analysis conducted under subparagraph (A), the extent to which the best practices developed under this subsection are evidence-based; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id838CDFA2F7734154B787CD826A8BD212"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">submit to the Secretary of Health and Human Services a report concerning the pilot program and the analysis of the pilot program under subparagraph (A), including an identification of the best practices that were identified as effective and those that require further review.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE8352C151EA1435B8D1546C2DD4184D9"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Dissemination</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 30 months after date on which a grant is awarded to an eligible entity under subsection (a), the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id212804a382054f3e933e1e762e64926a"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">collaborate with appropriate professional associations and health care professional schools to disseminate best practices identified or developed under subsection (a) for purposes of recognizing potential victims of a severe form of trafficking; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H1CAD6058126543D8A3B0E0B69A2915A9"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">post on the public website of the Department of Health and Human Services the best practices that are identified by the pilot program as effective under subsection (a)(5).</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE2CB924DA63343A1A75E7F0431AB7AB0" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>703.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Definitions</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">In this title:</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD7704B984E8C47FF96948F2D2CCFB1A2"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>eligible entity</term> means an accredited school of medicine or nursing with experience in the study or treatment of victims of a severe form of trafficking.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H5A92415F0CB1467F807EC1167DAD7ADF"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>eligible site</term> means a health center that is receiving assistance under section 330, 399Z–1, or 1001 of the Public Health Service Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/254b">42 U.S.C. 254b</external-xref>, 280h–5, and 300).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H91C0650B39924CD6974756CDA7C86DB5"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>health care professional</term> means a person employed by a health care provider who provides to patients information (including information not related to medical treatment), scheduling, services, or referrals.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF4F763617A984FAC9B41F40EBADAF35B"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>HIPAA privacy and security law</term> has the meaning given to such term in section 3009 of the Public Health Service Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/300jj-19">42 U.S.C. 300jj–19</external-xref>).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H3361C52D71C54F8A9CAFB61A9155DBE8"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>victim of a severe form of trafficking</term> has the meaning given to such term in section 103 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/7102">22 U.S.C. 7102</external-xref>).</text>
</paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HD1A5EABFB1D841069B5F40F0F90F49B4" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>704.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">No additional authorization of appropriations</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">No additional funds are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this title, and this title shall be carried out using amounts otherwise available for such purpose.</text>
</section><enum>VIII</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Better Response for Victims of Child Sex Trafficking</header>
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idDF1A17F2B3984C6588BF457EABD82C12" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>801.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Short title</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">This title may be cited as the <quote><short-title>Ensuring a Better Response for Victims of Child Sex Trafficking </short-title></quote>.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idCDDB523DFCB94C8BAEEECA778E0A361E" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>802.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">CAPTA amendments</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5FFB582F07AA490BA6701657DA64C8A8"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The amendments to the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/5101">42 U.S.C. 5101 et seq.</external-xref>) made by this section shall take effect 2 years after the date of the enactment of this Act.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id104E93BB6C2B475E86B0A605E69A35C5"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">State plans</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 106 of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/5106a">42 U.S.C. 5106a</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8407ff8331f0416ebc382d33d8b77666"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (b)(2)(B)—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idd79b8e4a14d0465b9a4e7551e10a8d17"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in clause (xxii), by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6479c268ceaa47fc8ba5bc630b027088"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id98B99C2397764629A68E02C71B0DDEBD" style="OLC">
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5C8EA3B4EE52433D8DB62A30D1CF90AD"><enum>(xxiv)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">provisions and procedures requiring identification and assessment of all reports involving children known or suspected to be victims of sex trafficking (as defined in section 103(10) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7102 (10)); and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id65072999A0474D3AA18913CE09466A15"><enum>(xxv)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">provisions and procedures for training child protective services workers about identifying, assessing, and providing comprehensive services for children who are sex trafficking victims, including efforts to coordinate with State law enforcement, juvenile justice, and social service agencies such as runaway and homeless youth shelters to serve this population;</text></clause><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8fd3e01c11894353b1671b113b1772cd"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (d), by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD6F67A762EB6435BB99281D3A5667D61" style="OLC"> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idd56079a79f6944f78ed7cc76bdae95e5"><enum>(17)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The number of children determined to be victims described in subsection (b)(2)(B)(xxiv).</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idddd49914830b49fcb759348a2a68fbce"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Special rule</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id017b2fbcaa554d33b576a81f99046316"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 111 of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/5106g">42 U.S.C. 5106g</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9d1517e799414c7aa2901b5578741fe0"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>For purposes</quote> and inserting the following:</text>
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<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idE2FC3B06E28A4F7381BF0EC64AA2A323"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Definitions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For purposes</text></subsection><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id19477ae557dc49e38b753721a9e8ac0a"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id566E9AF6B38243FC8D060750BE530B9F"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Special rule</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6fe0963866cd4f089619d60b26c348f4"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For purposes of section 3(2) and subsection (a)(4), a child shall be considered a victim of <quote>child abuse and neglect</quote> and of <quote>sexual abuse</quote> if the child is identified, by a State or local agency employee of the State or locality involved, as being a victim of sex trafficking (as defined in paragraph (10) of section 103 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/7102">22 U.S.C. 7102</external-xref>)) or a victim of severe forms of trafficking in persons described in paragraph (9)(A) of that section.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id716eb03c18d9470497298f3277b01d7d"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">State option</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding the definition of <quote>child</quote> in section 3(1), a State may elect to define that term for purposes of the application of paragraph (1) to section 3(2) and subsection (a)(4) as a person who has not attained the age of 24.</text></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8e5a7745c75b47c68074570331c43c77"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Conforming amendment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 3(2) of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/5101">42 U.S.C. 5101</external-xref> note) is amended by inserting <quote>(including sexual abuse as determined under section 111)</quote> after <quote>sexual abuse or exploitation</quote>.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id684862f535eb422dbd1145c048c38982"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Technical correction</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Paragraph (5)(C) of subsection (a), as so designated, of section 111 of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/5106g">42 U.S.C. 5106g</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>inhumane;</quote> and inserting <quote>inhumane.</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><enum>IX</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Anti-trafficking training for Department of Homeland Security personnel </header>
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="LEXA-Repairid65ADD930277D447C9A675A7C9E0788B1" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>901.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Definitions</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">In this title:</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC492E5D21DB84E2A976777BCCAAF8A17"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Department</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>Department</term> means the Department of Homeland Security.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H07C09C0E34ED46939B79C009FF2E55D5"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Human trafficking</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>human trafficking</term> means an act or practice described in paragraph (9) or (10) of section 103 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/7102">22 U.S.C. 7102</external-xref>).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H07B721231871488BB90E5B5E85B5BE1D"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Secretary</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>Secretary</term> means the Secretary of Homeland Security.</text> </paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H5606AC7ECD694E4D9FC6F7D2BCC727EA" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>902.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Training for Department personnel to identify human trafficking</header> <subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB3E162EF8B0248FDA02B9D7561CB2E1D"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In General</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall implement a program to—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H47F959F518F44FE7BF33F968C7A6AD93"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">train and periodically retrain relevant Transportation Security Administration, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and other Department personnel that the Secretary considers appropriate, with respect to how to effectively deter, detect, and disrupt human trafficking, and, where appropriate, interdict a suspected perpetrator of human trafficking, during the course of their primary roles and responsibilities; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC7FEF1AEDA98428B9EAB6E90588838E9"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">ensure that the personnel referred to in paragraph (1) regularly receive current information on matters related to the detection of human trafficking, including information that becomes available outside of the Department’s initial or periodic retraining schedule, to the extent relevant to their official duties and consistent with applicable information and privacy laws.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H58982048F94C42F58FF19EAA105BC5FE"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Training described</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The training referred to in subsection (a) may be conducted through in-class or virtual learning capabilities, and shall include—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HFEE5ACC2A964479B9AD3246F4DCDE8DF"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">methods for identifying suspected victims of human trafficking and, where appropriate, perpetrators of human trafficking;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H8F43EB2B43A447C5A9606C83CC11AD42"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">for appropriate personnel, methods to approach a suspected victim of human trafficking, where appropriate, in a manner that is sensitive to the suspected victim and is not likely to alert a suspected perpetrator of human trafficking;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H824ACB6526B744C8B2FA5F7FC075F1C3"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">training that is most appropriate for a particular location or environment in which the personnel receiving such training perform their official duties;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H41AC8F415C5546FA9A0B37117F87F9D8"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">other topics determined by the Secretary to be appropriate; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4BDFB5D3A836478F81C83C9E25ED4B7A"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a post-training evaluation for personnel receiving the training.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H586334A6769642FDAF8F7D9657E942CB"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Training curriculum review</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary shall annually reassess the training program established under subsection (a) to ensure it is consistent with current techniques, patterns, and trends associated with human trafficking.</text>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H1E007B42B7004236A9E85307CD538C88" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>903.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Certification and report to Congress</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H52599D02E65B4C8CA3A02E74C4736215"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Certification</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall certify to Congress that all personnel referred to in section 402(a) have successfully completed the training required under that section.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB521EC5A2546457A9D5A0361DD5AF035"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Report to Congress</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act and annually thereafter, the Secretary shall report to Congress with respect to the overall effectiveness of the program required by this title, the number of cases reported by Department personnel in which human trafficking was suspected, and, of those cases, the number of cases that were confirmed cases of human trafficking.</text>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4D0D8250344745C3AA9A608641C9061A" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>904.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Assistance to non-Federal entities</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The Secretary may provide training curricula to any State, local, or tribal government or private organization to assist the government or organization in establishing a program of training to identify human trafficking, upon request from the government or organization.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3C13290BC322489B8BF3BF4008992D23" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>905.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Expanded use of Domestic Trafficking Victims’ Fund</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 3014(e)(1) of title 18, United States Code, as added by section 101 of this Act, is amended—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id130E5411F2AA4E6692CBE320EBEEEB3B"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (B), by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end;</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0E06BACC154A4358A9824951E230E6D9"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (C), by striking the period at the end and inserting <quote>; and</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idC34840421B344B6588560FC4D9603A88"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2F940C1E238B4541A08D2125830294A7" style="OLC"> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id423D29EAFE0A4169B28889BFE8CBE61A"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">section 106 of the PROTECT Our Children Act of 2008 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/17616">42 U.S.C. 17616</external-xref>).</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></section><enum>X</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Human Trafficking Survivors Relief and Empowerment Act</header>
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="LEXA-RepairidBC534DA1C4E74D14A21F886FFC8F6F6F" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>1001.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Short title</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">This title may be cited as the <quote><short-title>Human Trafficking Survivors Relief and Empowerment Act of 2015</short-title></quote>.</text>
</section><section id="id00BFD4240FCA4312B9CCF2869EFCC4A6"><enum>1002.<?LEXA-Enum 1002.?></enum><header>Protections for human trafficking survivors</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 1701(c) of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/3796dd">42 U.S.C. 3796dd(c)</external-xref>), as amended by section 601 of this Act, is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="idD83834FA0FEA42B4B22F18CD2B24F821"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in paragraph (1), by striking <quote>or</quote> at the end;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="id1649E0C3986E48D4948293EB4AE5CEFB"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in paragraph (2)(C), by striking the period at the end and inserting <quote>; or</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id0BFFB20696674BA0A7D028933B46047F"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by inserting after paragraph (2) the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD945973A330E432F93759D94C1BF2B3E" style="OLC"> <paragraph id="id2587E8E1F3B64F84BF09DF6705D864E7"><enum>(3)</enum><text>from an applicant in a State that has in effect a law—</text>
<subparagraph id="idD4CB2CE2559B40459AE6E93225BF4C63"><enum>(A)</enum><text>that—</text> <clause id="idA3170FEF02FF4D97AC3CB569B9BA007D"><enum>(i)</enum><text>provides a process by which an individual who is a human trafficking survivor can move to vacate any arrest or conviction records for a non-violent offense committed as a direct result of human trafficking, including prostitution or lewdness;</text>
</clause><clause id="idE5DF983496E447B7A855693D37AEC148"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>establishes a rebuttable presumption that any arrest or conviction of an individual for an offense associated with human trafficking is a result of being trafficked, if the individual—</text>
<subclause id="id721EA061CAE7411696EB9AD07F3C1CC4"><enum>(I)</enum><text>is a person granted nonimmigrant status pursuant to section 101(a)(15)(T)(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1101">8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(T)(i)</external-xref>);</text>
</subclause><subclause id="idC7E6C1FC97BA4F53A6E6891EE66D936A"><enum>(II)</enum><text>is the subject of a certification by the Secretary of Health and Human Services under section 107(b)(1)(E) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/7105">22 U.S.C. 7105(b)(1)(E)</external-xref>); or</text>
</subclause><subclause id="id6D2C0001E0B640F4A565514AB027C66C"><enum>(III)</enum><text>has other similar documentation of trafficking, which has been issued by a Federal, State, or local agency; and</text>
</subclause></clause><clause id="idDE0EEE39A7CF4399B56D08144E742945"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>protects the identity of individuals who are human trafficking survivors in public and court records; and</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id78184E9486D847BA844F7BA939C36ABF"><enum>(B)</enum><text>that does not require an individual who is a human trafficking survivor to provide official documentation as described in subclause (I), (II), or (III) of subparagraph (A)(ii) in order to receive protection under the law.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></section>Speaker of the House of RepresentativesVice President of the United States and President of the Senate