3.0.0 377 2023-01-11T13:34:47Z 2023-01-11T13:34:47Z Senate S 2017-02-14 115 ssfr00 Foreign Relations Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2017-02-14T21:51:10Z 2017-02-14 ssfr00 Foreign Relations Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. IntroReferral 2017-02-14 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress M000639 Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ] Robert Menendez D NJ N R000595 Sen. Rubio, Marco [R-FL] Marco Rubio R FL 2017-02-14 True K000384 Sen. Kaine, Tim [D-VA] Timothy Kaine D VA M. 2017-02-14 True G000562 Sen. Gardner, Cory [R-CO] Cory Gardner R CO 2017-02-14 True P000449 Sen. Portman, Rob [R-OH] Rob Portman R OH 2017-02-17 False C001088 Sen. Coons, Christopher A. [D-DE] Christopher Coons D DE A. 2017-02-27 False International Affairs Congressional oversight Crime victims Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad Employment discrimination and employee rights Evidence and witnesses Foreign aid and international relief Foreign loans and debt Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management Human rights Human trafficking Immigration status and procedures Labor standards Multilateral development programs Public participation and lobbying International Affairs 00 2017-02-14 Introduced in Senate 2017-11-01T19:05:39Z Trafficking In Persons Report Integrity Act

This bill amends the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 to revise provisions regarding the Department of State's determination of whether countries are meeting the minimum standards for elimination of human trafficking, including provisions regarding: (1) the State Department's annual Trafficking in Persons Report, (2) additional requirements for meeting minimum standards, (3) actions against governments failing to meet minimum standards, (4) the tier ranking process for meeting such standards, and (5) congressional oversight of such process.

The President shall instruct the U.S. executive director of each multilateral development bank to: (1) support the U.S. policy goal of ending slavery and human trafficking and encourage other nations to adopt similar policies, (2) oppose, subject to a presidential waiver, loans or other programs (other than for humanitarian assistance) to Tier 3 and Tier 2 Watch List countries and channel funds from such countries to countries in better compliance with such standards, (3) propose that other institutions develop anti-human trafficking provisions in their project development, safeguards, procurement, and evaluation policies; (4) seek the adoption of policies and procedures providing governmental agencies and interested members of the public of member countries with access to human trafficking risk assessments; and (5) ensure that such an assessment accompanies loan proposals through the agency review process.

The Department of the Treasury shall make available to multilateral development banks, without charge, U.S. government personnel to assist in developing anti-human trafficking provisions in project development.

A Tier 3 country is a country the government of which does not fully meet the minimum standards and is not making significant efforts to do so.

A Tier 2 Watch List country is a country the government of which does not fully meet the minimum standards but is making significant compliance efforts and in which: (1) the number of victims of severe forms of trafficking is very significant or is significantly increasing, (2) there is a failure to provide evidence of increasing efforts to combat severe forms of trafficking in persons from the previous year, or (3) the compliance determination was based on the country's commitments to take additional steps over the next year.

]]> Trafficking In Persons Report Integrity Act Display Title Trafficking In Persons Report Integrity Act Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 to clarify report dates, modify the criteria for determinations of whether countries are meeting the minimum standards for elimination of trafficking, and highlight the importance of concrete actions by countries to eliminate trafficking, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Trafficking In Persons Report Integrity Act Introduced in Senate 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-115s377is/xml/BILLS-115s377is.xml 2017-02-14 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. 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.