3.0.0 656 2023-01-11T13:27:54Z 2023-01-11T13:27:54Z Senate S 2015-03-04 114 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2015-03-04T17:51:19Z Ensuring a Better Response for Victims of Child Sex Trafficking 114 1028 S 2015-04-21 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Related bill CRS 2015-03-04 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. IntroReferral 2015-03-04 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress P000449 Sen. Portman, Rob [R-OH] Rob Portman R OH N Crime and Law Enforcement Child safety and welfare Crime victims Crimes against children Criminal justice information and records Domestic violence and child abuse Human trafficking Sex offenses Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations Crime and Law Enforcement 00 2015-03-04 Introduced in Senate 2015-04-02T19:40:26Z Ensuring a Better Response for Victims of Child Sex Trafficking

This bill amends the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act to require a state plan for its child protective services system to include a certified assurance that the state has in effect and is enforcing a law requiring: (1) identification and assessment of all reports involving children known or suspected to be victims of sex trafficking; and (2) training child protective services workers about identifying, assessing, and providing comprehensive services for children who are sex trafficking victims.

Each state receiving a grant must work with the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make an annual data report that includes the number of children determined to be victims of sex trafficking.

A child is considered to be a victim of "child abuse and neglect" and of "sexual abuse" if the child is identified by a state or local agency employee as being a victim of sex trafficking or a victim of severe forms of trafficking in persons.

A state is given the option to define "child" under such Act as a person who has not attained age 24.

]]> Ensuring a Better Response for Victims of Child Sex Trafficking Display Title Ensuring a Better Response for Victims of Child Sex Trafficking Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act to enable State child protective services systems to improve the identification and assessment of child victims of sex trafficking, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Ensuring a Better Response for Victims of Child Sex Trafficking Introduced in Senate 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-114s656is/xml/BILLS-114s656is.xml 2015-03-04 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.