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<dc:title>115 S1442 RS: Combating Trafficking in Transportation Act</dc:title>
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<distribution-code display="yes">II</distribution-code><calendar>Calendar No. 184</calendar><congress>119th CONGRESS</congress><session>1st Session</session><legis-num>S. 1442</legis-num><associated-doc role="report">[Report No. 119–75]</associated-doc><current-chamber>IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES</current-chamber><action><action-date date="20250410">April 10, 2025</action-date><action-desc><sponsor name-id="S396">Mrs. Blackburn</sponsor> (for herself and <cosponsor name-id="S311">Ms. Klobuchar</cosponsor>) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the <committee-name committee-id="SSCM00" added-display-style="italic" deleted-display-style="strikethrough">Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation</committee-name></action-desc></action><action stage="Reported-in-Senate"><action-date date="20251014">October 14, 2025</action-date><action-desc>Reported by <sponsor name-id="S355">Mr. Cruz</sponsor>, with an amendment</action-desc><action-instruction>Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic</action-instruction></action><legis-type>A BILL</legis-type><official-title>To amend title 49, United States Code, to allow for eligibility for projects for the installation of human trafficking awareness signs at rest stops, and for other purposes.</official-title></form><legis-body><section id="S1" section-type="section-one" changed="deleted" reported-display-style="strikethrough" committee-id="SSCM00"><enum>1.</enum><header>Short title</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">This Act may be cited as the <quote><short-title>Combating Trafficking in Transportation Act</short-title></quote>.</text></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id580953eb9a8644e9b703bc5e51f46049" changed="deleted" reported-display-style="strikethrough" committee-id="SSCM00"><enum>2.</enum><header>Human trafficking awareness signs at rest stops</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idec63c47f9b394f879d6e2911ac0ba9fd"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Local and regional project assistance</header><text>Section 6702 of title 49, United States Code, is amended—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id759aba540997475caae96d29719df1e5"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (a)(3)—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="iddf0165e514ef41fa9db066b609e0e0d2"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (G), by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2baa1d0793b24325bcaba2eeac567c14"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by redesignating subparagraph (H) as subparagraph (I); and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2ff732f406604a79b11ea2464e6dbac5"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idEFCDD129048344D796DE973EE2CF31E8" changed="deleted" reported-display-style="strikethrough" committee-id="SSCM00"><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id630dce086e5c4a37916dfed1aeb51016"><enum>(H)</enum><text>a project to procure and install human trafficking awareness signage at rest stops and welcome centers along the Interstate System; and</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="idb422599eba0b49e7b06b441150cbfab4"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (c), by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD3D272C0EB3841FDB180088C6D0C44B4" changed="deleted" reported-display-style="strikethrough" committee-id="SSCM00"><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb657585c6a5c498bb6d7d753e30713f5"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Certain projects</header><text>In the case of an eligible project described in subsection (a)(3)(H), subparagraphs (A) and (B) of paragraph (2) shall not apply.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idd95a788ad6044445b7e9265d0561856b"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Surface transportation block grant program</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 133(b) of title 23, United States Code is amended by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idACDBA556F24B477892D058ECB8E3C918" changed="deleted" reported-display-style="strikethrough" committee-id="SSCM00"><paragraph id="id8fca75341be34e09bb676401fbbac5a1"><enum>(25)</enum><text>Projects described in section 6702(a)(3)(H) of title 49.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section" id="id7fc1362a18e44c95aa28ff01448174a6" changed="deleted" reported-display-style="strikethrough" committee-id="SSCM00"><enum>3.</enum><header>Department of Transportation advisory committee on human trafficking</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 5 of the Combating Human Trafficking in Commercial Vehicles Act (<external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/115/99">Public Law 115–99</external-xref>; 131 Stat. 2243) is amended—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide8a28c671ae847c480aa155fa10c3e8c"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (b)—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb2af091b21714f2688eeb942542104b7"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph (1), by striking <quote>15</quote> and inserting <quote>16</quote>; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id23e3dced300c4cc7a4b85e6d3e4c28c2"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (2)—</text><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0b462fcd2c504707b0fe9066d36eb379"><enum>(i)</enum><text>in subparagraph (B), by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end;</text></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idefe7e0fb29d54d428fb3d10f5a4d0dd6"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>in subparagraph (C), by striking the period at the end and inserting <quote>; and</quote>; and</text></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0aad4b7c5ee84ab0bbf47433104e5a78"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD3B288B342F944AD9C2A7801F925D537" changed="deleted" reported-display-style="strikethrough" committee-id="SSCM00"><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5fec6b756e5b4be7b63e72f8db11fe46"><enum>(D)</enum><text>State departments of transportation.</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="ideeb79b84bf6948f694dd9f7e12ae214a"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (c)—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ideaeed7d2ad114e52bd4e29e76431ce12"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking <quote>Not later than</quote> and inserting the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id675E06275E3041F4B039F69B76873D9F" changed="deleted" reported-display-style="strikethrough" committee-id="SSCM00"><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idf3766e7c4c44432f8a0ffd1fd32adea9"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Except as provided in paragraph (2), not later than</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1a7c2df66cd8491992c8dbafa5aea299"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA6B818F0735344DCB721B46FE80B56C4" changed="deleted" reported-display-style="strikethrough" committee-id="SSCM00"><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idf1365beb963149d5a4878d8e03a018e9"><enum>(2)</enum><header>State department of transportation representatives</header><text>The Secretary shall appoint the member described in subsection (b)(2)(D) by not later than 9 months after the date of enactment of the <short-title>Combating Trafficking in Transportation Act</short-title>.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph></section></legis-body><legis-body display-enacting-clause="no-display-enacting-clause"><section id="id416290b3-6721-425e-9d46-3ad93aacdc36" section-type="section-one" changed="added" reported-display-style="italic" committee-id="SSCM00"><enum>1.</enum><header>Short title</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">This Act may be cited as the <quote><short-title>Combating Trafficking in Transportation Act</short-title></quote>.</text></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section" id="id136fa92f-8ca5-4979-bc57-9052af04df7c" changed="added" reported-display-style="italic" committee-id="SSCM00"><enum>2.</enum><header>Department of Transportation advisory committee on human trafficking</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 5 of the Combating Human Trafficking in Commercial Vehicles Act (<external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/115/99">Public Law 115–99</external-xref>; 131 Stat. 2243) is amended—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id850a64a8-82ce-43be-86d6-5275f2e705c9"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (b)—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3e4e635a-2a7a-41c2-a6bf-52863eb8b9b3"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph (1), by striking <quote>15</quote> and inserting <quote>16</quote>; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc242cb79-d134-4cc4-9c30-b35599096be6"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (2)—</text><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id78dc8f4f-8931-439f-8b27-afac79c38c37"><enum>(i)</enum><text>in subparagraph (B), by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end;</text></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idfff3ba0c-5213-41e4-83f5-733e305ee831"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>in subparagraph (C), by striking the period at the end and inserting <quote>; and</quote>; and</text></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id624700cc-4b50-460c-9577-77937376a0a8"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb9fd5af5-4bb8-43b4-90e6-bdd62c0d493f" changed="added" reported-display-style="italic" committee-id="SSCM00"><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id792d6631-e06f-472d-8792-f1eb4cf11ffa"><enum>(D)</enum><text>State departments of transportation.</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id0f59fa73-515e-4d41-b28b-3c1ccb0e7274"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (c)—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb3838d42-23ea-4a8f-9615-c0cde7e0d158"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking <quote>Not later than</quote> and inserting the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4c1a22e4-1d10-4e6c-bd8e-c6d0b91d21c7" changed="added" reported-display-style="italic" committee-id="SSCM00"><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9e98026e-2ee3-4760-a995-d285e2f26a0e"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Except as provided in paragraph (2), not later than</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc52a81ff-62c6-452d-bc27-59ed84958ff9"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id70e710ed-6fb5-479a-9427-e4c432e55440" changed="added" reported-display-style="italic" committee-id="SSCM00"><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idbe0ed34a-ec88-4062-954c-7afc8d193985"><enum>(2)</enum><header>State department of transportation representatives</header><text>The Secretary shall appoint the member described in subsection (b)(2)(D) by not later than 9 months after the date of enactment of the <short-title>Combating Trafficking in Transportation Act</short-title>.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph></section></legis-body><endorsement><action-date date="20251014">October 14, 2025</action-date><action-desc>Reported with an amendment</action-desc></endorsement></bill> 

