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<item congress="114" measure-type="s" measure-number="1876" measure-id="id114s1876" originChamber="SENATE" orig-publish-date="2015-07-28" update-date="2015-09-04">
<title>A bill to rename the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking of the Department of State the Bureau to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons and to provide for an Assistant Secretary to head such Bureau, and for other purposes.</title>
<summary summary-id="id114s1876v00" currentChamber="SENATE" update-date="2015-09-04">
<action-date>2015-07-28</action-date>
<action-desc>Introduced in Senate</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<p>Amends the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 to: (1) redesignate the Department of State's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking as the Bureau to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, and (2) require an Assistant Secretary to head the Bureau.</p>]]></summary-text>
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