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I 110th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 7311 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AN ACT To authorize appropriations for fiscal years 2008 through 2011 for the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, to enhance measures to combat trafficking in persons, and for other purposes.
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Short title; table of contents
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Short title
This Act may be cited as the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008. (b)
Table of contents
The table of contents for this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. TITLE I—Combating international trafficking in persons Sec. 101. Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking. Sec. 102. Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking. Sec. 103. Prevention and prosecution of trafficking in foreign countries. Sec. 104. Assistance for victims of trafficking in other countries. Sec. 105. Increasing effectiveness of anti-trafficking programs. Sec. 106. Minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking. Sec. 107. Actions against governments failing to meet minimum standards. Sec. 108. Research on domestic and international trafficking in persons. Sec. 109. Presidential Award for Extraordinary Efforts to Combat Trafficking in Persons. Sec. 110. Report on activities of the Department of Labor to monitor and combat forced labor and child labor. Sec. 111. Sense of Congress regarding multilateral framework between labor exporting and labor importing countries. TITLE II—Combating trafficking in persons in the United States Subtitle A—Ensuring availability of possible witnesses and informants Sec. 201. Protecting trafficking victims against retaliation. Sec. 202. Protections for domestic workers and other nonimmigrants. Sec. 203. Protections, remedies, and limitations on issuance for A–3 and G–5 visas. Sec. 204. Relief for certain victims pending actions on petitions and applications for relief. Sec. 205. Expansion of authority to permit continued presence in the United States. Subtitle B—Assistance for trafficking victims Sec. 211. Assistance for certain nonimmigrant status applicants. Sec. 212. Interim assistance for children. Sec. 213. Ensuring assistance for all victims of trafficking in persons. Subtitle C—Penalties against traffickers and other crimes Sec. 221. Restitution of forfeited assets; enhancement of civil action. Sec. 222. Enhancing penalties for trafficking offenses. Sec. 223. Jurisdiction in certain trafficking offenses. Sec. 224. Bail conditions, subpoenas, and repeat offender penalties for sex trafficking. Sec. 225. Promoting effective State enforcement. Subtitle D—Activities of the United States Government Sec. 231. Annual report by the Attorney General. Sec. 232. Investigation by the Inspectors General. Sec. 233. Senior Policy Operating Group. Sec. 234. Preventing United States travel by traffickers. Sec. 235. Enhancing efforts to combat the trafficking of children. Sec. 236. Restriction of passports for sex tourism. Sec. 237. Additional reporting on crime. Sec. 238. Processing of certain visas. Sec. 239. Temporary increase in fee for certain consular services. TITLE III—Authorizations of appropriations Sec. 301. Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000. Sec. 302. Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2005. Sec. 303. Rule of construction. Sec. 304. Technical amendments. TITLE IV—Child Soldiers Prevention Sec. 401. Short title. Sec. 402. Definitions. Sec. 403. Sense of Congress. Sec. 404. Prohibition. Sec. 405. Reports. Sec. 406. Training for foreign service officers. Sec. 407. Effective date; applicability.
<enum>I</enum><header>Combating international trafficking in persons</header> <section changed="not-changed" id="H840DE9626C614729BE6EAC35FAECAC65"><enum>101.</enum><header>Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 105(b) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/7103">22 U.S.C. 7103(b)</external-xref>) is amended by inserting <quote>the Secretary of Education,</quote> after <quote>the Secretary of Homeland Security,</quote>.</text></section> <section changed="not-changed" id="H1E1D38826E9648469B8C00D68D3BC5F5"><enum>102.</enum><header>Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 105(e) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/7103">22 U.S.C. 7103(e)</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <paragraph changed="not-changed" id="HDE181258B21147B2876D201F7F6481D"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the subsection heading, by striking <quote><header-in-text level="subsection" style="OLC">Support for the Task Force</header-in-text></quote> and inserting <quote><header-in-text level="subsection" style="OLC">Office To Monitor and Combat Trafficking</header-in-text></quote>;</text></paragraph> <paragraph changed="not-changed" id="H425A5483A934414CA09ED1982682D9C7"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>The Secretary of State is authorized to</quote> and inserting the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF4213306E4374E849D7F984864DD2E35" style="OLC"> <paragraph changed="not-changed" id="HFF60A686959A47AF9D245066FC4D0025"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Secretary of State shall</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph> <paragraph changed="not-changed" id="HEE32D626858F4E9A8FA8885024309447"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H9DE924A9BA8E42719CADAE4DC2553808" style="OLC"> <paragraph id="HACA2D2F5AAF4459192D98C3D3FDEA04C"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Coordination of certain activities</header> <subparagraph id="HD1B4CB086EC04D4DB23FA4172354426E"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Partnerships</header><text>The Director, in coordination and cooperation with other officials at the Department of State involved in corporate responsibility, the Deputy Under Secretary for International Affairs of the Department of Labor, and other relevant officials of the United States Government, shall promote, build, and sustain partnerships between the United States Government and private entities (including foundations, universities, corporations, community-based organizations, and other nongovernmental organizations) to ensure that—</text> <clause id="H70C8B2A2BF5545A9005300C28124813C"><enum>(i)</enum><text>United States citizens do not use any item, product, or material produced or extracted with the use of labor from victims of severe forms of trafficking; and</text></clause> <clause id="H7D28A9354EDD40059C01B8297C7C3144"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>such entities do not contribute to trafficking in persons involving sexual exploitation.</text></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HD10129DA064546B0881B73597B325CA7"><enum>(B)</enum><header>United states assistance</header><text>The Director shall be responsible for—</text> <clause id="H2D64B82A879E4B84A6F0335CB5335419"><enum>(i)</enum><text>all policy, funding, and programming decisions regarding funds made available for trafficking in persons programs that are centrally controlled by the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking; and</text></clause> <clause id="H27ED8D63CDCB47C5891C2FFDBC0430A7"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>coordinating any trafficking in persons programs of the Department of State or the United States Agency for International Development that are not centrally controlled by the Director.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></section> <section id="HFCDAF8D3939944AFBBE91498FDB26E2"><enum>103.</enum><header>Prevention and prosecution of trafficking in foreign countries</header> <subsection id="H3385C9BE273E46DCB2089200F2241DEC"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Prevention</header><text>Section 106 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S. C. 7104) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H6E6EDEA7094646E6A5D81E9FFF345EC2" style="OLC"> <subsection id="H01BEFDB5A6C74651BB848402766E3390"><enum>(i)</enum><header>Additional Measures To Prevent and Deter Trafficking</header><text>The President shall establish and carry out programs to prevent and deter trafficking in persons, including—</text> <paragraph id="H3E9ADE66F9C241B9B1B8F5FBF439C982"><enum>(1)</enum><text>technical assistance and other support to improve the capacity of foreign governments to investigate, identify, and carry out inspections of private entities, including labor recruitment centers, at which trafficking victims may be exploited, particularly exploitation involving forced and child labor;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H0721610250A842338E04CBFAB606F0BE"><enum>(2)</enum><text>technical assistance and other support for foreign governments and nongovernmental organizations to provide immigrant populations with information, in the native languages of the major immigrant groups of such populations, regarding the rights of such populations in the foreign country and local in-country nongovernmental organization-operated hotlines;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HF7BC886AB7314DA1A4F3BC26188E087E"><enum>(3)</enum><text>technical assistance to provide legal frameworks and other programs to foreign governments and nongovernmental organizations to ensure that—</text> <subparagraph id="H12480903705146F7005BB9C2DC6B1016"><enum>(A)</enum><text>foreign migrant workers are provided the same protection as nationals of the foreign country;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H357A43316297481286E9FCE2B267A00"><enum>(B)</enum><text>labor recruitment firms are regulated; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H8798DE9223794A538D3BDDBE44B56229"><enum>(C)</enum><text>workers providing domestic services in households are provided protection under labor rights laws; and</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H9B781AF0EE664024876076B1DF76AC99"><enum>(4)</enum><text>assistance to foreign governments to register vulnerable populations as citizens or nationals of the country to reduce the ability of traffickers to exploit such populations.</text></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection> <subsection id="HE6F1AD10DB064E8CB8F097689B0061E3"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Prosecution</header><text>Section 134(a)(2) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/2152d">22 U.S.C. 2152d(a)(2)</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end before the semicolon the following: <quote>, including investigation of individuals and entities that may be involved in trafficking in persons involving sexual exploitation</quote>.</text></subsection></section> <section changed="not-changed" id="H1616C8E490654321AAAA50B133701CED"><enum>104.</enum><header>Assistance for victims of trafficking in other countries</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 107(a) of Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/7105">22 U.S.C. 7105(a)</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <paragraph changed="not-changed" id="H487CE2F7E9074987003535BA96993831"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in paragraph (1)—</text> <subparagraph changed="not-changed" id="H2731C1BD34864D44BF3B75BF8F1412E9"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in the second sentence, by inserting before the period at the end the following: <quote>, and shall be carried out in a manner which takes into account the cross-border, regional, and transnational aspects of trafficking in persons</quote>; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph changed="not-changed" id="H1D0704FE56B242419E15AE54B90F7F0"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HCF2D328BE02140C8AFF3016EC5EDDB28" style="OLC"> <subparagraph changed="not-changed" id="HA8980682EC1D426F916E35938416EBC1"><enum>(F)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In cooperation and coordination with relevant organizations, such as the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the International Organization for Migration, and private nongovernmental organizations that contract with, or receive grants from, the United States Government to assist refugees and internally displaced persons, support for—</text> <clause changed="not-changed" id="HD383BCD271804EA9BC7E3E23D66D6CE0"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">increased protections for refugees and internally displaced persons, including outreach and education efforts to prevent such refugees and internally displaced persons from being exploited by traffickers; and</text></clause> <clause changed="not-changed" id="H2C14A9003A9B4C0282738F79F1D818BC"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">performance of best interest determinations for unaccompanied and separated children who come to the attention of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, its partner organizations, or any organization that contracts with the Department of State in order to identify child trafficking victims and to assist their safe integration, reintegration, and resettlement.</text></clause></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph changed="not-changed" id="H7CDCC33687874672A1F4001014D223E0"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (2), by adding at the end the following: <quote>In carrying out this paragraph, the Secretary and the Administrator shall take all appropriate steps to ensure that cooperative efforts among foreign countries are undertaken on a regional basis.</quote>.</text></paragraph></section> <section changed="not-changed" id="HF50EBAC3D2A645CBB13138ADC93177"><enum>105.</enum><header>Increasing effectiveness of anti-trafficking programs</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The 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>) is amended by inserting after section 107 the following:</text> <quoted-block changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H38E01A9178704EC89D23F46DCA91FC64" style="OLC"> <section changed="not-changed" id="H8EF26CBB7A5C4A81B9D9182511E21E7"><enum>107A.</enum><header>Increasing effectiveness of anti-trafficking programs</header> <subsection changed="not-changed" id="HE99AAE01817145D5B0A7CCECFCCCA520"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Awarding of Grants, Cooperative Agreements, and Contracts</header><text>In administering funds made available to carry out this Act within and outside the United States—</text> <paragraph changed="not-changed" id="H45D2B972B3F3482799E261A4479730FF"><enum>(1)</enum><text>solicitations of grants, cooperative agreements, and contracts for such programs shall be made publicly available;</text></paragraph> <paragraph changed="not-changed" id="H70F690C3DC4A4F0EA050E4233B1CF9AD"><enum>(2)</enum><text>grants, cooperative agreements, and contracts shall be subject to full and open competition, in accordance with applicable laws; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph changed="not-changed" id="HFD9F1236DAB843ACA8C1CF00D4C09A3"><enum>(3)</enum><text>the internal department or agency review process for such grants, cooperative agreements, and contracts shall not be subject to ad hoc or intermittent review or influence by individuals or organizations outside the United States Government except as provided under paragraphs (1) and (2).</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection changed="not-changed" id="HC5820883FE9748B28677A2FD7D5BA4B5"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Eligibility</header> <paragraph changed="not-changed" id="HB9EC4CA627DD4509B320BC4B76DD46E1"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>An applicant desiring a grant, contract, or cooperative agreement under this Act shall certify that, to the extent practicable, persons or entities providing legal services, social services, health services, or other assistance have completed, or will complete, training in connection with trafficking in persons.</text></paragraph> <paragraph changed="not-changed" id="H7A9ED30759004552AA70FFE9AD411E82"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Disclosure</header><text>If appropriate, applicants should indicate collaboration with nongovernmental organizations, including organizations with expertise in trafficking in persons.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection changed="not-changed" id="HEEFFCDEB289049A08908C209343D1C8C"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Evaluation of Anti-Trafficking Programs</header> <paragraph changed="not-changed" id="HB1DA45D786A345EBBE5C86A5C6755FE5"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The President shall establish a system to evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of the assistance provided under anti-trafficking programs established under this Act on a program-by-program basis in order to maximize the long-term sustainable development impact of such assistance.</text></paragraph> <paragraph changed="not-changed" id="H7B814F1EA60945549085F335DA76008E"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Requirements</header><text>In carrying out paragraph (1), the President shall—</text> <subparagraph changed="not-changed" id="HE1B1717287F140CFAB60D4FCAE77007B"><enum>(A)</enum><text>establish performance goals for the assistance described in paragraph (1), expressed in an objective and quantifiable form, to the extent practicable;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph changed="not-changed" id="H6F4DC4EDB54F472583DCF4CAFECB2F"><enum>(B)</enum><text>ensure that performance indicators are used for programs authorized under this Act to measure and assess the achievement of the performance goals described in subparagraph (A);</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph changed="not-changed" id="H39CB2B7ED85D4DE28128DAE582FEF783"><enum>(C)</enum><text>provide a basis for recommendations for adjustments to the assistance described in paragraph (1) to enhance the impact of such assistance; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph changed="not-changed" id="H0E96E4698839474796326D24B419C8C5"><enum>(D)</enum><text>ensure that evaluations are conducted by subject matter experts in and outside the United States Government, to the extent practicable.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection> <subsection changed="not-changed" id="H2C44ECF53D1648F787292D39BF2C00E"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Targeted Use of Anti-Trafficking Programs</header><text>In providing assistance under this division, the President should take into account the priorities and country assessments contained in the most recent report submitted by the Secretary of State to Congress pursuant to section 110(b).</text></subsection> <subsection changed="not-changed" id="HEBA2340D8BCC47E0B339CB3DF7A2C4C1"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Consistency With Other Programs</header><text>The President shall ensure that the design, monitoring, and evaluation of United States assistance programs for emergency relief, development, and poverty alleviation under part I and chapter 4 of part II of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/2151">22 U.S.C. 2151 et seq.</external-xref> and 2346 et seq.) and other similar United States assistance programs are consistent with United States policies and other United States programs relating to combating trafficking in persons.</text></subsection> <subsection changed="not-changed" id="H3E422B2493264968823EFE45D9003D73"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Authorization of appropriations</header><text>For each of the fiscal years 2008 through 2011, not more than 5 percent of the amounts made available to carry out this division may be used to carry out this section, including—</text> <paragraph changed="not-changed" id="H9100F0D8748B453FA31211E4BEEEC691"><enum>(1)</enum><text>evaluations of promising anti-trafficking programs and projects funded by the disbursing agency pursuant to this Act; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph changed="not-changed" id="H648F1ECD7F124A65B9AA90CE87A05DE"><enum>(2)</enum><text>evaluations of emerging problems or global trends.</text></paragraph></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section> <section changed="not-changed" id="H62A9154EFFC2480C8991C7E7B984D100"><enum>106.</enum><header>Minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 108 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/7106">22 U.S.C. 7106</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <paragraph changed="not-changed" id="H6A9D955633C24B47B5CD22FEB372DD71"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (a), by striking <quote>a significant number of</quote>; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph changed="not-changed" id="HAA878FA26DCC4F419DEC5B9FC7AE83E7"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (b)—</text> <subparagraph changed="not-changed" id="H7B0769BA70C84622B0157C77F6BA01BE"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph (1), by striking the period at the end of the first sentence and inserting the following: <quote>, including, as appropriate, requiring incarceration of individuals convicted of such acts. For purposes of the preceding sentence, suspended or significantly-reduced sentences for convictions of principal actors in cases of severe forms of trafficking in persons shall be considered, on a case-by-case basis, whether to be considered an indicator of serious and sustained efforts to eliminate severe forms of trafficking in persons.</quote>;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph changed="not-changed" id="H3A37C37D810744DB81CEEB4025509D00"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (2), by inserting before the period at the end the following: <quote>, including by providing training to law enforcement and immigration officials regarding the identification and treatment of trafficking victims using approaches that focus on the needs of the victims</quote>;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H38DC7130C785482E86CB1500F97FAABC"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in paragraph (3), by striking <quote>measures to reduce the demand for commercial sex acts and for participation in international sex tourism by nationals of the country</quote> and inserting <quote>measures to establish the identity of local populations, including birth registration, citizenship, and nationality</quote>; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H6A10E0BA878B4BE09C7437CC65287077"><enum>(D)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H0712803347FC4C8EB4070425DF4D0F2" style="OLC"> <paragraph id="HA21A7BB2E31F49AEAF036EEEEE22C694"><enum>(11)</enum><text>Whether the government of the country has made serious and sustained efforts to reduce the demand for—</text> <subparagraph id="HBB628BACFF6048D3A7F5AA00F272EE56"><enum>(A)</enum><text>commercial sex acts; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HB74B5897D3AF4C42A72FDE00583C2BA4"><enum>(B)</enum><text>participation in international sex tourism by nationals of the country.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph></section> <section changed="not-changed" id="HC800E39E196D4609B2BA670065B1789C"><enum>107.</enum><header>Actions against governments failing to meet minimum standards</header> <subsection changed="not-changed" id="H9A2E212BC4F0462EBAB8CC98307C9607"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Countries on special watch list relating to trafficking in persons for 2 consecutive years</header><text>Section 110(b)(3) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/7107">22 U.S.C. 7107(b)(3)</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H095BF0CD31C4468CBE2073C257AE3B2B" style="OLC"> <subparagraph changed="not-changed" id="H95EB6278E7CE48DDAC1719033BD1FB91"><enum>(D)</enum><header>Countries on special watch list for 2 consecutive years</header> <clause changed="not-changed" id="H5B9566408E99401D97BAAA928FB41E25"><enum>(i)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Except as provided under clause (ii), a country that is included on the special watch list described in subparagraph (A) for 2 consecutive years after the date of the enactment of this subparagraph, shall be included on the list of countries described in paragraph (1)(C).</text></clause> <clause changed="not-changed" id="H7751507FF4A24842B34B07AE751E0000"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Exercise of waiver authority</header><text>The President may waive the application of clause (i) for up to 2 years if the President determines, and reports credible evidence to the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives, that such a waiver is justified because—</text> <subclause changed="not-changed" id="HE940755D4D354728959E91D591AE53A2"><enum>(I)</enum><text>the country has a written plan to begin making significant efforts to bring itself into compliance with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking;</text></subclause> <subclause changed="not-changed" id="H4782D15DD38E43360011DCA4349644BF"><enum>(II)</enum><text>the plan, if implemented, would constitute making such significant efforts; and</text></subclause> <subclause changed="not-changed" id="H09AD44363196431EA8719000F7117B8D"><enum>(III)</enum><text>the country is devoting sufficient resources to implement the plan.</text></subclause></clause></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection> <subsection changed="not-changed" id="H5A3AE7B2D4964B7FAD166CC3D766EC10"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Clarification of measures against certain foreign countries</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 110(d)(1)(A)(ii) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/7107">22 U.S.C. 7107(d)(1)(A)</external-xref>) is amended by inserting <quote>such assistance to the government of the country for the subsequent fiscal year and will not provide</quote> after <quote>will not provide</quote>.</text></subsection> <subsection changed="not-changed" id="H34FCB95170E343E181F60034DD093FA2"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Translation of Trafficking in Persons Report</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary of State shall—</text> <paragraph changed="not-changed" id="HA4A7FBC9896A42308B4C4C281FB6E0A6"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">timely translate the annual report submitted under section 110(b) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/7107">22 U.S.C. 7107(b)</external-xref>) into the principal languages of as many countries as possible, with particular emphasis on the languages of the countries on the lists described in subparagraphs (B) and (C) of section 110(b)(1) of such Act; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph changed="not-changed" id="HDD417F51A8684258BCAFBE5CA0CDF615"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">ensure that the translations described in paragraph (1) are made available to the public through postings on the Internet website of the Department of State and other appropriate websites.</text></paragraph></subsection></section> <section changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H9C5ADEC5A4AE44F1B15693553D8CE4F3"><enum>108.</enum><header>Research on domestic and international trafficking in persons</header> <subsection changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H03343E17373C42B6B87847D000D5FEC8"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Integrated database</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 112A of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/7109a">22 U.S.C. 7109a</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <paragraph changed="not-changed" commented="no" id="HEFE6E7DC19534C86BC277092308055B6"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (a), by amending paragraph (5) to read as follows:</text> <quoted-block changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H02F92AF4A00C46448DA27E4DD373FAF1" style="OLC"> <paragraph changed="not-changed" commented="no" id="H3D50FB46FAB947E4A1EE7F5C87BFEDF1"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An effective mechanism for quantifying the number of victims of trafficking on a national, regional, and international basis, which shall include, not later than 2 years after the date of the enactment of the <short-title>William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008</short-title>, the establishment and maintenance of an integrated database within the Human Smuggling and Trafficking Center.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph> <paragraph changed="not-changed" commented="no" id="HEA1F58F680D345EBB051C3CBE5466F8"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by amending subsection (b) to read as follows:</text> <quoted-block changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC5AA28E72B8C4F53990072F04644EBA1" style="OLC"> <subsection changed="not-changed" commented="no" id="HF5D7D420E8D54FC28FB9B8A904EE3869"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Role of Human Smuggling and Trafficking Center</header> <paragraph changed="not-changed" commented="no" id="HA0C1B9BAE5C743D4B20043CAFD0024E5"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The research initiatives described in paragraphs (4) and (5) of subsection (a) shall be carried out by the Human Smuggling and Trafficking Center, established under section 7202 of the 9/11 Commission Implementation Act of 2004 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1777">8 U.S.C. 1777</external-xref>).</text></paragraph> <paragraph changed="not-changed" commented="no" id="H5D4BBB7CA9C948D2AC00478065D724B6"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Database</header><text>The database described in subsection (a)(5) shall be established by combining all applicable data collected by each Federal department and agency represented on the Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking, consistent with the protection of sources and methods, and, to the maximum extent practicable, applicable data from relevant international organizations, to—</text> <subparagraph changed="not-changed" id="HB249BAD8628D428D8BE4FF3205059DF6"><enum>(A)</enum><text>improve the coordination of the collection of data related to trafficking in persons by each agency of the United States Government that collects such data;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph changed="not-changed" id="H907AEA44AC484D458805A04800DF58E7"><enum>(B)</enum><text>promote uniformity of such data collection and standards and systems related to such collection;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph changed="not-changed" id="HB24359F0D9D14D6EB69363AD9F5B5C94"><enum>(C)</enum><text>undertake a meta-analysis of patterns of trafficking in persons, slavery, and slave-like conditions to develop and analyze global trends in human trafficking;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph changed="not-changed" id="H3F34009D5AC74ADEB22283411034C3B0"><enum>(D)</enum><text>identify emerging issues in human trafficking and establishing integrated methods to combat them; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph changed="not-changed" id="HEA9A5171644F481BB40139DB29EA449F"><enum>(E)</enum><text>identify research priorities to respond to global patterns and emerging issues.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph changed="not-changed" id="HD5DF9A6BE31B4448AFB4FD1B95A51E93"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Consultation</header><text>The database established in accordance with paragraph (2) shall be maintained in consultation with the Director of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons of the Department of State.</text></paragraph> <paragraph changed="not-changed" id="H734F10A6EEF44761B589C994AF6552FA"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Authorization of appropriations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">There are authorized to be appropriated $2,000,000 to the Human Smuggling and Trafficking Center for each of the fiscal years 2008 through 2011 to carry out the activities described in this subsection.</text></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection> <subsection changed="not-changed" commented="no" id="H1B4493EA7A6A4C9AA162E48CA0FED603"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Report</header><text>Section 110(b)(1) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/7107">22 U.S.C. 7107(b)(1)</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <paragraph changed="not-changed" commented="no" id="H49895AD6DD974EDFBE32FA987D47B831"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subparagraph (C), by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end;</text></paragraph> <paragraph changed="not-changed" commented="no" id="HF2D6942258194353A3CDB0572E6015"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subparagraph (D), by striking the period at the end and inserting a semicolon; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph changed="not-changed" commented="no" id="H691A7BEB171B4697B7E8C106F463F3E7"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HFC112E274D87487BBE89680091733883" style="OLC"> <subparagraph changed="not-changed" commented="no" id="HD9A9FDEF0F1640C5AA68ABA29E8EBB78"><enum>(E)</enum><text>reporting and analysis on the emergence or shifting of global patterns in human trafficking, including data on the number of victims trafficked to, through, or from major source and destination countries, disaggregated by nationality, gender, and age, to the extent possible; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph changed="not-changed" commented="no" id="H4C33F125B4174E31AF4C6D000028601B"><enum>(F)</enum><text>emerging issues in human trafficking.</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection></section> <section changed="not-changed" id="H9D8D519CD57048689FC5F110B8A7A0F6"><enum>109.</enum><header>Presidential Award for Extraordinary Efforts to Combat Trafficking in Persons</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The 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>) is amended by inserting after section 112A the following:</text> <quoted-block changed="not-changed" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HEA66524D4108463C840084F3D50001D0" style="OLC"> <section changed="not-changed" id="H7C76B2F34434482CB69EC057ECD88FE5"><enum>112B.</enum><header>Presidential Award for Extraordinary Efforts to Combat Trafficking in Persons</header> <subsection changed="not-changed" id="H26099463A4DF4978B0FAAD477369B510"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Establishment of award</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The President is authorized to establish an award, to be known as the <quote>Presidential Award for Extraordinary Efforts To Combat Trafficking in Persons</quote>, for extraordinary efforts to combat trafficking in persons. To the maximum extent practicable, the Secretary of State shall present the award annually to not more than 5 individuals or organizations, including—</text> <paragraph changed="not-changed" id="H1BDE5C7757A94D5EA612FFB675AF11B"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">individuals who are United States citizens or foreign nationals; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph changed="not-changed" id="HD23FBA9A67D1429A8BFAB7F46D48D43C"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">United States or foreign nongovernmental organizations.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection changed="not-changed" id="H8BCE8BEF8AC949849CB96D2C8973002F"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Selection</header><text>The President shall establish procedures for selecting recipients of the award authorized under subsection (a).</text></subsection> <subsection changed="not-changed" id="H37A3FF60619443739F3129213E544DC5"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Ceremony</header><text>The Secretary of State shall host an annual ceremony for recipients of the award authorized under subsection (a) as soon as practicable after the date on which the Secretary submits to Congress the report required under section 110(b)(1). The Secretary of State may pay the travel costs of each recipient and a guest of each recipient who attends the ceremony.</text></subsection> <subsection changed="not-changed" id="H8FE9298433FB43F9803B79D5BEAFED14"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Authorization of appropriations</header><text>There are authorized to be appropriated, for each of the fiscal years 2008 through 2011, such sums as may be necessary to carry out this section.</text></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section> <section changed="not-changed" id="H137FE7895B6F478781C0A6F08DD2A63B"><enum>110.</enum><header>Report on activities of the Department of Labor to monitor and combat forced labor and child labor</header> <subsection changed="not-changed" id="H7F7658FCA1FC4F20B04D1D96BEE75E00"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Final report; public availability of list</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than January 15, 2010, the Secretary of Labor shall—</text> <paragraph changed="not-changed" id="H837D0EA443814BAC8744DC522FA14826"><enum>(1)</enum><text>submit to the appropriate congressional committees a final report that—</text> <subparagraph changed="not-changed" id="H6E2C68977CD0419C92D4B500F46DA02C"><enum>(A)</enum><text>describes the implementation of section 105(b) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2005 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/7103">22 U.S.C. 7103(b)</external-xref>); and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph changed="not-changed" id="H24A65C505D8644F186CC91B6E1569262"><enum>(B)</enum><text>includes an initial list of goods described in paragraph (2)(C) of such section; and</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph changed="not-changed" commented="no" id="H4625A14FA13B4DAB8F47671F7CD7303D"><enum>(2)</enum><text>make the list of goods described in paragraph (1)(B) available to the public.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection changed="not-changed" id="H25ED4AFAC2D5439AAF1F53D77639A032"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Appropriate congressional committees defined</header><text>In this section, the term <term>appropriate congressional committees</term> has the meaning given the 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></subsection></section> <section commented="no" id="H60D5261ED51244008900A08C454BE461"><enum>111.</enum><header>Sense of Congress regarding multilateral framework between labor exporting and labor importing countries</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">It is the sense of Congress that the Secretary of State, in conjunction with the International Labour Organization, the United Nations Office of Drug and Crime Prevention, and other relevant international and nongovernmental organizations, should seek to establish a multilateral framework between labor exporting and labor importing countries to ensure that workers migrating between such countries are protected from trafficking in persons.</text></section> <enum>II</enum><header>Combating trafficking in persons in the United States </header> <subtitle id="HD6B4837F0BE64897A8759E00C6C3E992"><enum>A</enum><header>Ensuring availability of possible witnesses and informants</header> <section commented="no" id="H0C6B361AF15E494FB45C3946071F6676"><enum>201.</enum><header>Protecting trafficking victims against retaliation</header> <subsection commented="no" id="HEF8E469BB13D44DCBC0054A72300F52D"><enum>(a)</enum><header>T Visas</header><text>Section 101(a)(15)(T) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1101">8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(T)</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <paragraph commented="no" id="HEB915CC724F24C5E819BE25C5760ECFF"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in clause (i)—</text> <subparagraph id="HA039D5F5EDCF488599CDD4DE81332994"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in the matter preceding subclause (I), by striking <quote>Security and the Attorney General jointly;</quote> and inserting <quote>Security, in consultation with the Attorney General,</quote>;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HB7455E326CC84A4BB8BB289BB8B94535"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in subclause (I), by striking the comma at the end and inserting a semicolon;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph commented="no" id="H3A3564D29B7C48408897E7C0CAB3FF8C"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in subclause (II), by adding at the end the following: <quote>including physical presence on account of the alien having been allowed entry into the United States for participation in investigative or judicial processes associated with an act or a perpetrator of trafficking;</quote>;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph commented="no" id="HAA1F881D5D3C45D38114EA95E44A821"><enum>(D)</enum><text>in subclause (III)—</text> <clause commented="no" id="H6CF875A021E849C684BEF220C8881113"><enum>(i)</enum><text>in item (aa), by striking <quote>or</quote> at the end;</text></clause> <clause commented="no" id="H025F68C7D37349F29EEC695D7291C1F3"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by redesignating item (bb) as item (cc);</text></clause> <clause id="HF94BCA2FEE7942A6B39B3F93F8CF11BE"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>by inserting after item (aa) the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB076D0BA05F94D4C942DBBFB24590030" style="traditional"> <item id="HCF10F1A004CF46E69C5D64C354A1FDB8" indent="up3"><enum>(bb)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in consultation with the Attorney General, as appropriate, is unable to cooperate with a request described in item (aa) due to physical or psychological trauma; or</text></item><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></clause> <clause id="HCE7A72F244254B1BACBCC3D2A68EA26C"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>in item (cc), as redesignated, by striking <quote>, and</quote> at the end and inserting <quote>; and</quote>; and</text></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph commented="no" id="H97CF61FA3963491A9277DEE2FBBDC00"><enum>(E)</enum><text>in subclause (IV), by adding <quote>and</quote> at the end;</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph commented="no" id="HC3B4217DE8F1485790219ED018E3091D"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in clause (ii)—</text> <subparagraph id="HC475295BDCAB4EBD9337F6A1DB898D8E"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in subclause (I), by striking <quote>or</quote> at the end;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H11E1659A078B4D48B100AD280191FE6C"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in subclause (II), by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end and inserting <quote>or</quote>; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H5D8F07F4910143C7A80072A2015342E0"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HEC61B4B9E8174C7BA79D9FF9AE8B6729" style="OLC"> <subclause id="H3D89F5FCE775435F9EE7415D1AF75E0" indent="up2"><enum>(III)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">any parent or unmarried sibling under 18 years of age of an alien described in subclause (I) or (II) who the Secretary of Homeland Security, in consultation with the law enforcement officer investigating a severe form of trafficking, determines faces a present danger of retaliation as a result of the alien’s escape from the severe form of trafficking or cooperation with law enforcement.</text></subclause><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph commented="no" id="H937F547093E64585985432EDBE33C1D9"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by striking clause (iii).</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H8A47D8AA913B4A39BDAFF25504024EE9"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Requirements for T visa issuance</header><text>Section 214(o)(7) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1184">8 U.S.C. 1184(o)(7)</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="HD8CB0ACD23D34D6180B69B660600B3A7"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subparagraph (B)—</text> <subparagraph display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HD99B5F26C5704F858E17CCA4764EDFC4"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking <quote>subparagraph (A) if a Federal</quote> and inserting the following: “subparagraph (A) if—</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H75142EECC90F4F1B9F589EEFA0832004" style="traditional"> <clause id="HF1701871E48F4165B5A621CD9C1203FD" indent="up2"><enum>(i)</enum><text>a Federal</text></clause><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph> <subparagraph display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4BC05D10A0394228AAE2077BB159EB03"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking the period at the end and inserting a semicolon; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H035E9B584F2A4727AE91B50000E556C3"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H1B820AE0BF6A413600531F006C1B9C76" style="traditional"> <clause id="H6D210E7BB4FC4585A865B0BA9FB31D43" indent="up2"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the alien is eligible for relief under section 245(l) and is unable to obtain such relief because regulations have not been issued to implement such section; or </text></clause> <clause id="H4D6A5FEE2860496AA2C4D415A6EF1087" indent="up2"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Secretary of Homeland Security determines that an extension of the period of such nonimmigrant status is warranted due to exceptional circumstances.</text></clause><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H435BF232A1E24EDBBE223F0039C6E166"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE951AE973D9F40EFBF15BA73E3A67658" style="OLC"> <subparagraph id="HDD91236255C2409BA9841800F8CC9FFF" indent="up2"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Nonimmigrant status under section 101(a)(15)(T) shall be extended during the pendency of an application for adjustment of status under section 245(l).</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection> <subsection display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HDCFB2CB0A333497589BD083323F2DCA"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Conditions on nonimmigrant status for certain crime victims</header><text>Section 214(p)(6) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1184">8 U.S.C. 1184(p)(6)</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following: <quote>The Secretary of Homeland Security may extend, beyond the 4-year period authorized under this section, the authorized period of status of an alien as a nonimmigrant under section 101(a)(15)(U) if the Secretary determines that an extension of such period is warranted due to exceptional circumstances. Such alien’s nonimmigrant status shall be extended beyond the 4-year period authorized under this section if the alien is eligible for relief under section 245(m) and is unable to obtain such relief because regulations have not been issued to implement such section and shall be extended during the pendency of an application for adjustment of status under section 245(m). The Secretary may grant work authorization to any alien who has a pending, bona fide application for nonimmigrant status under section 101(a)(15)(U).</quote>.</text></subsection> <subsection commented="no" id="HDED24B3182A74B2BB942E96EFA44F27"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Adjustment of status for trafficking victims</header><text>Section 245(l) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1255">8 U.S.C. 1255(l)</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <paragraph commented="no" id="H1EAFD2FAB26042528FC7CC8855F96462"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (1)—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" id="H8FB348B053034DF9BCB3006B7331A267"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by striking <quote>the Attorney General,,</quote> and inserting <quote>in the opinion of the Secretary of Homeland Security, in consultation with the Attorney General, as appropriate</quote>;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph commented="no" id="HC7C072CA82B54C0C812835B91886AE9E"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in subparagraph (B)—</text> <clause commented="no" id="H7EE22B596A224BA300E9F00879B5082"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>subject to paragraph (6),</quote> after <quote>(B)</quote>; and</text></clause> <clause commented="no" id="HB05A2C79A6DF4B6AA80786E7CE08BA95"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by striking <quote>, and</quote> and inserting <quote>; and</quote>; and</text></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2A47AA368B4B4DC6A5A8D6B83338297E"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (C)—</text> <clause display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H63128C6720A446BBBE1200C88EFC2800"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in clause (i), by striking <quote>, or</quote> and inserting a semicolon;</text></clause> <clause display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4B7350D75F734794B0D238E5B935C06D"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in clause (ii), by striking <quote>, or in the case of subparagraph (C)(i), the Attorney General, as appropriate</quote>; and</text></clause> <clause display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H6DF17EE85BE941C4006D309050E590C5"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>by striking the period at the end and inserting the following: “; or</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H38BC6E1695F3465CA86F176968CBB02B" style="OLC"> <clause display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H20053D46DBCB4C81AC68DA52549298BF"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>was younger than 18 years of age at the time of the victimization qualifying the alien for relief under section 101(a)(15)(T).</text></clause><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></clause></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="HF658F052178E44B3B5CFB6679C29C00"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (3), by striking the period at the end and inserting the following: “, unless—</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB700AC4BA8904DF1933BA9B302FF5B04" style="OLC"> <subparagraph id="H472C5ED697A34BB994D922598083616B" indent="up1"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the absence was necessary to assist in the investigation or prosecution described in paragraph (1)(A); or</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HFD0CCED59A7A4F6CB78713F3DFE4AB1B" indent="up1"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">an official involved in the investigation or prosecution certifies that the absence was otherwise justified.</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph> <paragraph commented="no" id="H3F68A42D681547C1942CBDE0F7234CD1"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block id="H8D448E6DEFAD48389E004BC280A67F51" style="OLC"> <paragraph commented="no" id="HF6BEACF993BD402B89099DFDD2679200" indent="up1"><enum>(6)</enum><text>For purposes of paragraph (1)(B), the Secretary of Homeland Security may waive consideration of a disqualification from good moral character with respect to an alien if the disqualification was caused by, or incident to, the trafficking described in section 101(a)(15)(T)(i)(I).</text></paragraph> <paragraph commented="no" id="HC034FB99FE4541F0918E835474CE22A5" indent="up1"><enum>(7)</enum><text>The Secretary of Homeland Security shall permit aliens to apply for a waiver of any fees associated with filing an application for relief through final adjudication of the adjustment of status for a VAWA self-petitioner and for relief under sections 101(a)(15)(T), 101(a)(15)(U), 106, 240A(b)(2), and 244(a)(3) (as in effect on March 31, 1997).</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection> <subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H45B394980FE6487FB16D6D4F5CC55216"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Adjustment of status for crime victims</header><text>Section 245(m) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1255">8 U.S.C. 1255(m)</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H11EA48C8030F4D10AFEF4DC6F77F8792"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in paragraph (1), in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by striking <quote>unless the Attorney General</quote> and inserting <quote>unless the Secretary</quote>; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE483611CEAA149D2ACEDF98900522908"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF2BBCAFE098043BCA3E9DA5B0574CAFA" style="OLC"> <paragraph id="H11740C66314E4C0D8366C46BD6D0B5C5" indent="up1"><enum>(5)</enum> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H123726FDD65648449DC241442F3000A7"><enum>(A)</enum><text>The Secretary of Homeland Security shall consult with the Attorney General, as appropriate, in making a determination under paragraph (1) whether affirmative evidence demonstrates that the alien unreasonably refused to provide assistance to a Federal law enforcement official, Federal prosecutor, Federal judge, or other Federal authority investigating or prosecuting criminal activity described in section 101(a)(15)(U)(iii).</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H19DC4A5D50404775AF230066F2B5A300" indent="up1"><enum>(B)</enum><text>Nothing in paragraph (1)(B) may be construed to prevent the Secretary from consulting with the Attorney General in making a determination whether affirmative evidence demonstrates that the alien unreasonably refused to provide assistance to a State or local law enforcement official, State or local prosecutor, State or local judge, or other State or local authority investigating or prosecuting criminal activity described in section 101(a)(15)(U)(iii).</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HD226D31031E04BA29630FBEC2C8FE6E9"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made by this section shall—</text> <paragraph id="HD81DC8C2E4F44734967F7CA806538B10"><enum>(1)</enum><text>take effect on the date of enactment of the Act; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H8BE90FAC5DF34B0696148108F85B54F5"><enum>(2)</enum><text>apply to applications for immigration benefits filed on or after such date.</text></paragraph></subsection></section> <section id="H04FD5C9CAFEE44B5B9ACF06D7B619940"><enum>202.</enum><header>Protections for domestic workers and other nonimmigrants</header> <subsection id="HC849F467D8134C0FBAB991C6BF1E22B"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Information pamphlet</header> <paragraph id="H9D8235F715A04778809878A806F6DA4F"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Development and distribution</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary of State, in consultation with the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Attorney General, and the Secretary of Labor, shall develop an information pamphlet on legal rights and resources for aliens applying for employment- or education-based nonimmigrant visas.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H56878BBC8D68444D851699FC80F1513D"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Consultation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In developing the information pamphlet under paragraph (1), the Secretary of State shall consult with nongovernmental organizations with expertise on the legal rights of workers and victims of severe forms of trafficking in persons.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H4A2661D40D4A4A438B400000A3F43B8B"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Contents</header><text>The information pamphlet developed under subsection (a) shall include information concerning items such as—</text> <paragraph commented="no" id="HF2FFAEE9408E47B0BBD2E5109873A293"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the nonimmigrant visa application processes, including information about the portability of employment;</text></paragraph> <paragraph commented="no" id="H1D1814FA682944399005FA39E3F6D919"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the legal rights of employment or education-based nonimmigrant visa holders under Federal immigration, labor, and employment law;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H082DA775304E464098866C51298937EE"><enum>(3)</enum><text>the illegality of slavery, peonage, trafficking in persons, sexual assault, extortion, blackmail, and worker exploitation in the United States;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H9353D373C97F415EB0B0FA99001106A0"><enum>(4)</enum><text>the legal rights of immigrant victims of trafficking in persons and worker exploitation, including—</text> <subparagraph id="H35AA1C1D6F124A04AAE0B92EF2D655C9"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the right of access to immigrant and labor rights groups;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HBBE1E4864DE1494EA76FA4D14364B53"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the right to seek redress in United States courts;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H4039F6A88557462D9D12352CF4631384"><enum>(C)</enum><text>the right to report abuse without retaliation;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H79CF9976416B47EC8F24C889ACCF5F83"><enum>(D)</enum><text>the right of the nonimmigrant to relinquish possession of his or her passport to his or her employer;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HB6A827CED1A342C50063259083FB2DB"><enum>(E)</enum><text>the requirement of an employment contract between the employer and the nonimmigrant; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H2C7F8A350EBB465A9485823C0082CE1C"><enum>(F)</enum><text>an explanation of the rights and protections included in the contract described in subparagraph (E); and</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H972C64DEF693436EB1C17E1408114BFE"><enum>(5)</enum><text>information about nongovernmental organizations that provide services for victims of trafficking in persons and worker exploitation, including—</text> <subparagraph id="H7CDA112D391B44DAB8CA2D23EC26F6A8"><enum>(A)</enum><text>anti-trafficking in persons telephone hotlines operated by the Federal Government;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H554C9D16EE904017A4A50062501B887E"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the Operation Rescue and Restore hotline; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H620E494E5B074147A2B6431B4F41CD5"><enum>(C)</enum><text>a general description of the types of victims services available for individuals subject to trafficking in persons or worker exploitation.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HFFB73ACCB74C43269FACE008057E8B3"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Translation</header> <paragraph id="H4A0A34D2DF3D40ED8E45F9C180D47B17"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>To best serve the language groups having the greatest concentration of employment-based nonimmigrant visas, the Secretary of State shall translate the information pamphlet developed under subsection (a) into all relevant foreign languages, to be determined by the Secretary based on the languages spoken by the greatest concentrations of employment- or education-based nonimmigrant visa applicants.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H819BE39D7D0B465AAD398FC72E820460"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Revision</header><text>Every 2 years, the Secretary of State, in consultation with the Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security, shall determine the specific languages into which the information pamphlet will be translated based on the languages spoken by the greatest concentrations of employment- or education-based nonimmigrant visa applicants.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HA0DD01EA0205401AA067CDC43391E852"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Availability and distribution</header> <paragraph id="H3B855ED5E055462397109E6860F578CD"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Posting on federal websites</header><text>The information pamphlet developed under subsection (a) shall be posted on the websites of the Department of State, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice, the Department of Labor, and all United States consular posts processing applications for employment- or education-based nonimmigrant visas.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H66AD29B8F4F5433F8CFD9C9E4DAFC4C"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Other distribution</header><text>The information pamphlet developed under subsection (a) shall be made available to any—</text> <subparagraph id="HF15898BB3F5C4DCE98CEADD288E888EE"><enum>(A)</enum><text>government agency;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H9C80340B8AA74133BA9585871D03D8F1"><enum>(B)</enum><text>nongovernmental advocacy organization; or</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HBF4E3F9F94674ABAB6A2DFF8A805158C"><enum>(C)</enum><text>foreign labor broker doing business in the United States.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="HCB8B378C36924704B64900853D825023"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Deadline for pamphlet development and distribution</header><text>Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall distribute and make available the information pamphlet developed under subsection (a) in all the languages referred to in subsection (c).</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H693EA8E44BD1477D8F9E02172BA9F562"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Responsibilities of consular officers of the Department of State</header> <paragraph id="H0FC5175A218F4C1E8E82C5AE2858007F"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Interviews</header><text>A consular officer conducting an interview of an alien for an employment-based nonimmigrant visa shall—</text> <subparagraph id="H6D43016779424B1BB115E8818D2D541B"><enum>(A)</enum> <clause commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="HC5452E1198404FC081E018A48744F651"><enum>(i)</enum><text>confirm that the alien has received, read, and understood the contents of the pamphlet described in subsections (a) and (b); and</text></clause> <clause id="H60ACE231825B488C8BA44EF54389C080" indent="up1"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>if the alien has not received, read, or understood the contents of the pamphlet described in subsections (a) and (b), distribute and orally disclose to the alien the information described in paragraphs (2) and (3) in a language that the alien understands; and</text></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HBC3B9E5793694E91922CE5A118EA8B9F"><enum>(B)</enum><text>offer to answer any questions the alien may have regarding the contents of the pamphlet described in subsections (a) and (b).</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H642313D588A84C73A64BB882ED813BB1"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Legal rights</header><text>The consular officer shall disclose to the alien—</text> <subparagraph id="H3F6990F055834B0C8CE2CA42B6061E52"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the legal rights of employment-based nonimmigrants under Federal immigration, labor, and employment laws;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H7EB597C72DB244F79D9D44B531F93128"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the illegality of slavery, peonage, trafficking in persons, sexual assault, extortion, blackmail, and worker exploitation in the United States; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H76D8E7577A1C4BEEA4A186BD1DF97F7"><enum>(C)</enum><text>the legal rights of immigrant victims of trafficking in persons, worker exploitation, and other related crimes, including—</text> <clause id="H00DB44F6056A47589448C86D42EBC8D5"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the right of access to immigrant and labor rights groups;</text></clause> <clause id="H6E15DF754EAA4ED38F2C8C6131B7AFE1"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the right to seek redress in United States courts; and</text></clause> <clause id="H0CD39B4FE67F41CABFC6CC8D22AAB1C8"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>the right to report abuse without retaliation.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H7D2C6FA243384C34AAC583F46B3517D6"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Victim services</header><text>In carrying out the disclosure requirement under this subsection, the consular officer shall disclose to the alien the availability of services for victims of human trafficking and worker exploitation in the United States, including victim services complaint hotlines.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection commented="no" id="HA1319E18FD0F4885B6432D4E472F8C8D"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this section:</text> <paragraph commented="no" id="H32952B16E72F40DFB14700E3C94E5F88"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Employment- or education-based nonimmigrant visa</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>employment- or education-based nonimmigrant visa</term> means—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" id="HCDF080A9250142059F7378F2DCDCF7BA"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a nonimmigrant visa issued under subparagraph (A)(iii), (G)(v), (H), or (J) of section 101(a)(15) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1101">8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)</external-xref>); and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph commented="no" id="H326511811AA04220A42170B9C7D05400"><enum>(B)</enum><text>any nonimmigrant visa issued to a personal or domestic servant who is accompanying or following to join an employer.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H146F64CDDCA94F72934B9EF3D2E9DD46"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Severe forms of trafficking in persons</header><text>The term <term>severe forms of trafficking in persons</term> has the meaning given the 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> <paragraph id="H0AECE52344C2407AB8BBB7D277C11C0" commented="no"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Secretary</header><text>The term <term>Secretary</term> means the Secretary of State.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H2193179AFB6B4A38AD05004763161965"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Abusing and exploiting</header><text>The term <term>abusing and exploiting</term> means any conduct which would constitute a violation of section 1466A, 1589, 1591, 1592, 2251, or 2251A of title 18, United States Code.</text></paragraph></subsection></section> <section id="HE196C3B1B395445FAC085300FABF318C"><enum>203.</enum><header>Protections, remedies, and limitations on issuance for A–3 and G–5 visas</header> <subsection id="HA9082ABC278844D38D8B3F0434DE55CD"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Limitations on issuance of A–3 and G–5 visas</header> <paragraph id="H6CCF550D76F043CD80F96974FBFC78C5"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Contract requirement</header><text>Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of State may not issue—</text> <subparagraph id="HF12592F282C548E39F3B0700CE4D0028"><enum>(A)</enum><text>an A–3 visa unless the applicant is employed, or has signed a contract to be employed containing the requirements set forth in subsection (d)(2), by an officer of a diplomatic mission or consular post; or</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H34D4285F811E4715BCBE57AB4DBFCB8C"><enum>(B)</enum><text>a G–5 visa unless the applicant is employed, or has signed a contract to be employed by an employee in an international organization.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="HD1C8F449207345AA00E9FEB0DF406863"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Suspension requirement</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary shall suspend, for such period as the Secretary determines necessary, the issuance of A–3 visas or G–5 visas to applicants seeking to work for officials of a diplomatic mission or an international organization, if the Secretary determines that there is credible evidence that 1 or more employees of such mission or international organization have abused or exploited 1 or more nonimmigrants holding an A–3 visa or a G–5 visa, and that the diplomatic mission or international organization tolerated such actions.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H885DD17BA5404261B3304CAEE63BECC9"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Action by diplomatic missions or international organizations</header><text>The Secretary may suspend the application of the limitation under paragraph (2) if the Secretary determines and reports to the appropriate congressional committees that a mechanism is in place to ensure that such abuse or exploitation does not reoccur with respect to any alien employed by an employee of such mission or institution.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HA224A75FD3F342F1878F64DF430200FC"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Protections and remedies for A–3 and G–5 nonimmigrants employed by diplomats and staff of international organizations</header> <paragraph id="H580D1E97D8F34FBF8EEB00EEC4008B3C"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Secretary may not issue or renew an A–3 visa or a G–5 visa unless—</text> <subparagraph id="H3CDAA00207AD48319197585346E4D9E5"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the visa applicant has executed a contract with the employer or prospective employer containing provisions described in paragraph (2); and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H2E30C1DB68AD46EF8EF9B1C3E9FBF968"><enum>(B)</enum><text>a consular officer has conducted a personal interview with the applicant outside the presence of the employer or any recruitment agent in which the officer reviewed the terms of the contract and the provisions of the pamphlet required under section 202.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H5C52453ACCBA4E32B61D2E97D8CD37A0"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Mandatory contract</header><text>The contract between the employer and domestic worker required under paragraph (1) shall include—</text> <subparagraph id="H77FC9E529B834FCB9B28763609B13E2E"><enum>(A)</enum><text>an agreement by the employer to abide by all Federal, State, and local laws in the United States;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H1292F349D7F74D10A1F48EE2F67EB298"><enum>(B)</enum><text>information on the frequency and form of payment, work duties, weekly work hours, holidays, sick days, and vacation days; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HEB8AD4B4105D432C85999889ADA024E0"><enum>(C)</enum><text>an agreement by the employer not to withhold the passport, employment contract, or other personal property of the employee.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="HE707BBA7DF1244D08FA1ABCEBDAAD8"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Training of consular officers</header><text>The Secretary shall provide appropriate training to consular officers on the fair labor standards described in the pamphlet required under section 202, trafficking in persons, and the provisions of this section.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H8DEDADE7E8D040DDA9CD59EBFABD75E6"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Record keeping</header> <subparagraph id="H7D71AE4DE66C4EBC944F3CBF19ABF3E9"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary shall maintain records on the presence of nonimmigrants holding an A–3 visa or a G–5 visa in the United States, including—</text> <clause id="HAFED4A6F58064EB981738E21C8EA02E4"><enum>(i)</enum><text>information about when the nonimmigrant entered and permanently exited the country of residence;</text></clause> <clause id="H61895993D14E49D49CAC8FF62DBAE190"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the official title, contact information, and immunity level of the employer; and</text></clause> <clause id="H5F2B6CC5CCDF4847993209A71688225B"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>information regarding any allegations of employer abuse received by the Department of State.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection> <subsection commented="no" id="H11839262618C470280EC41A9684E27D9"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Protection from removal during legal actions against former employers</header> <paragraph commented="no" id="HC987C5CDD4604644AD938D3C9162AD00"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Remaining in the United States to seek legal redress</header> <subparagraph commented="no" id="H48E6A23EB9FD456193F0FDCF2DE68EDD"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Effect of complaint filing</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Except as provided in subparagraph (B), if a nonimmigrant holding an A–3 visa or a G–5 visa working in the United States files a civil action under <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/18/1595">section 1595</external-xref> of title 18, United States Code, or a civil action regarding a violation of any of the terms contained in the contract or violation of any other Federal, State, or local law in the United States governing the terms and conditions of employment of the nonimmigrant that are associated with acts covered by such section, the Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall permit the nonimmigrant to remain legally in the United States for time sufficient to fully and effectively participate in all legal proceedings related to such action.</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H26BB8849B4E54FFE00FEF49C3E704EF" commented="no"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Exception</header><text>An alien described in subparagraph (A) may be deported before the conclusion of the legal proceedings related to a civil action described in such subparagraph if such alien is—</text> <clause id="H93709391D37C4769B37551AA52AE3B99" commented="no"><enum>(i)</enum><text>inadmissible under paragraph (2)(A)(i)(II), (2)(B), (2)(C), (2)(E), (2)(H), (2)(I), (3)(A)(i), (3)(A)(iii), (3)(B), (3)(C), or (3)(F) of section 212(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1182">8 U.S.C. 1182(a)</external-xref>); or</text></clause> <clause id="H6B1FBEF90E8A475F82B8EC7D366FCA00" commented="no"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>deportable under paragraph (2)(A)(ii), (2)(A)(iii), (4)(A)(i), (4)(A)(iii), (4)(B), or (4)(C) of section 237(a) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1227">8 U.S.C. 1227(a)</external-xref>).</text></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph commented="no" id="H6023969DFC2E414EB6F5BD22D64FD48"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Failure to exercise due diligence</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If the Secretary of Homeland Security, after consultation with the Attorney General, determines that the nonimmigrant holding an A–3 visa or a G–5 visa has failed to exercise due diligence in pursuing an action described in subparagraph (A), the Secretary may terminate the status of the A–3 or G–5 nonimmigrant.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph commented="no" id="HAB98075D5C4046DCBE2C2F3B9BED1C51"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Authorization to work</header><text>The Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall authorize any nonimmigrant described in paragraph (1) to engage in employment in the United States during the period the nonimmigrant is in the United States pursuant to paragraph (1).</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H5FAA55CB89BA47C09600CF69588F99E2"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Study and report</header> <paragraph id="HC881FF0A7E2343318BED8FFF1DC67FBE"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Investigation report</header> <subparagraph id="HE7498E26882046F58128B553FE130015"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, and every 2 years thereafter for the following 10 years, the Secretary shall submit a report to the appropriate congressional committees on the implementation of this section.</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H351A80A7D18A4A810000E7D976E1DC98"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Contents</header><text>The report submitted under subparagraph (A) shall include—</text> <clause id="HC6C99A94750246D0A03CE859E6469913"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">an assessment of the actions taken by the Department of State and the Department of Justice to investigate allegations of trafficking or abuse of nonimmigrants holding an A–3 visa or a G–5 visa; and</text></clause> <clause id="HF82E244EC1A34E7B83ED8436012E2100"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the results of such investigations.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H35D648363EA34C648C46C581E0C79884"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Feasibility of oversight of employees of diplomats and representatives of other institutions report</header><text>Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit a report to the appropriate congressional committees on the feasibility of—</text> <subparagraph id="HBA6F656C9BAA42B9B655CF08D880CA1C"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">establishing a system to monitor the treatment of nonimmigrants holding an A–3 visa or a G–5 visa who have been admitted to the United States;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H7890EC9F6DE44EF6AA91B9CC2C50B528"><enum>(B)</enum><text>a range of compensation approaches, such as a bond program, compensation fund, or insurance scheme, to ensure that such nonimmigrants receive appropriate compensation if their employers violate the terms of their employment contracts; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H262B75415A694CC7876B3200D83DEBC8"><enum>(C)</enum><text>with respect to each proposed compensation approach described in subparagraph (B), an evaluation and proposal describing the proposed processes for—</text> <clause id="HF0E620365D3F49D5859FD57655D53FE1"><enum>(i)</enum><text>adjudicating claims of rights violations;</text></clause> <clause id="HFB3BB26361094BB5A37CD2A8D173D076"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>determining the level of compensation; and</text></clause> <clause id="HFF96495CD9DC4E6095A08C6CD18DF00"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>administering the program, fund, or scheme.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H57052F8376334CBA93CBC301DA63798"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Assistance to law enforcement investigations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary shall cooperate, to the fullest extent possible consistent with the United States obligations under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, done at Vienna, April 18, 1961, (23 U.S.T. 3229), with any investigation by United States law enforcement authorities of crimes related to abuse or exploitation of a nonimmigrant holding an A–3 visa or a G–5 visa.</text></subsection> <subsection commented="no" id="HA637E0F33824439CB832217C802D0016"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this section:</text> <paragraph id="H3E8D1EAC5C784C78A5079DCD234FB724"><enum>(1)</enum><header>A–3 visa</header><text>The term <term>A–3 visa</term> means a nonimmigrant visa issued pursuant to section 101(a)(15)(A)(iii) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1101">8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(A)(iii)</external-xref>).</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HAD9B182C7DC249F68E19A27FCE27C5A6"><enum>(2)</enum><header>G–5 visa</header><text>The term <term>G–5 visa</term> means a nonimmigrant visa issued pursuant to section 101(a)(15)(G)(v) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1101">8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(G)(v)</external-xref>).</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H9DDD930EFD2C47AE9540D1457BB1E49B"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Secretary</header><text>The term <term>Secretary</term> means the Secretary of State.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H91CC9D992F6A436EAD4222AFD61785B"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Appropriate congressional committees</header><text>The term <quote>appropriate congressional committees</quote> means—</text> <subparagraph id="H7677B3CEDDFA449383385889CFA83CE4"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HF6A57330EC454515AC8024BD2FCFF3B"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> </subsection></section> <section commented="no" id="H6648BBCD111F458B8D44EF1261945624"><enum>204.</enum><header>Relief for certain victims pending actions on petitions and applications for relief</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 237 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1227">8 U.S.C. 1227</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HD1DC80DEB5C04C49847F67FD309F3F83" style="traditional"> <subsection commented="no" id="H207F16F1AAB64A9D98BC50BBC18C78E8"><enum>(d)</enum> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H97D522A3D891479A8E5B6EE1F5D68C76"><enum>(1)</enum><text>If the Secretary of Homeland Security determines that an application for nonimmigrant status under subparagraph (T) or (U) of section 101(a)(15) filed for an alien in the United States sets forth a prima facie case for approval, the Secretary may grant the alien an administrative stay of a final order of removal under section 241(c)(2) until—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" id="HC04AB4B8642F47C498D1E162A6C4B7BC" indent="up1"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the application for nonimmigrant status under such subparagraph (T) or (U) is approved; or</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph commented="no" id="HCCD5975E758245AABBD2769C3427D30" indent="up1"><enum>(B)</enum><text>there is a final administrative denial of the application for such nonimmigrant status after the exhaustion of administrative appeals.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph commented="no" id="H479F8C3B5D984DF88F9100D820AF0514" indent="up1"><enum>(2)</enum><text>The denial of a request for an administrative stay of removal under this subsection shall not preclude the alien from applying for a stay of removal, deferred action, or a continuance or abeyance of removal proceedings under any other provision of the immigration laws of the United States.</text></paragraph> <paragraph commented="no" id="H2EC399090A8B4D75ACF58D1006EF948" indent="up1"><enum>(3)</enum><text>During any period in which the administrative stay of removal is in effect, the alien shall not be removed.</text></paragraph> <paragraph commented="no" id="H6076CD7C3B9447BE9092324F4964BF60" indent="up1"><enum>(4)</enum><text>Nothing in this subsection may be construed to limit the authority of the Secretary of Homeland Security or the Attorney General to grant a stay of removal or deportation in any case not described in this subsection.</text></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section> <section commented="no" id="H8899983C73944A39BA176EF213AD3165"><enum>205.</enum><header>Expansion of authority to permit continued presence in the United States</header> <subsection commented="no" id="H704BA2314E284A6CB29300CF49FA0337"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Expansion of authority</header> <paragraph id="H270A0943F1524E54A1B248B56DC1ABB4"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 107(c)(3) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/7105">22 U.S.C. 7105(c)(3)</external-xref>) is amended to read as follows:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB8E9D957810A4D4CACA791A775893DD9" style="OLC"> <paragraph id="HD7DE1C34EA504FA882F2FF423D92FBC1"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Authority to permit continued presence in the United States</header> <subparagraph id="H1CAA00737053407DA50081EEE3F1D343"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Trafficking victims</header> <clause id="HC47DBD405A704C32876000884300E202"><enum>(i)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If a Federal law enforcement official files an application stating that an alien is a victim of a severe form of trafficking and may be a potential witness to such trafficking, the Secretary of Homeland Security may permit the alien to remain in the United States to facilitate the investigation and prosecution of those responsible for such crime.</text></clause> <clause id="H520A4DCCB6C641969CBE375827430075"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Safety</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">While investigating and prosecuting suspected traffickers, Federal law enforcement officials described in clause (i) shall endeavor to make reasonable efforts to protect the safety of trafficking victims, including taking measures to protect trafficked persons and their family members from intimidation, threats of reprisals, and reprisals from traffickers and their associates.</text></clause> <clause id="HC17C128CA6ED4866B1F7224E18F7A300"><enum>(iii)</enum><header>Continuation of presence</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary shall permit an alien described in clause (i) who has filed a civil action under <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/18/1595">section 1595</external-xref> of title 18, United States Code, to remain in the United States until such action is concluded. If the Secretary, in consultation with the Attorney General, determines that the alien has failed to exercise due diligence in pursuing such action, the Secretary may revoke the order permitting the alien to remain in the United States.</text></clause> <clause id="HC4FD099CB00C45F886EDFE825C4167EA"><enum>(iv)</enum><header>Exception</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding clause (iii), an alien described in such clause may be deported before the conclusion of the administrative and legal proceedings related to a complaint described in such clause if such alien is inadmissible under paragraph (2)(A)(i)(II), (2)(B), (2)(C), (2)(E), (2)(H), (2)(I), (3)(A)(i), (3)(A)(iii), (3)(B), or (3)(C) of section 212(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1182">8 U.S.C. 1182(a)</external-xref>).</text></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H0DA9B36A125246698FAD00906C553F76"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Parole for relatives</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Law enforcement officials may submit written requests to the Secretary of Homeland Security, in accordance with section 240A(b)(6) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1229b">8 U.S.C. 1229b(b)(6)</external-xref>), to permit the parole into the United States of certain relatives of an alien described in subparagraph (A)(i).</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HD8B455287BD34BEAAF3B161EB4F41BF6"><enum>(C)</enum><header>State and local law enforcement</header><text>The Secretary of Homeland Security, in consultation with the Attorney General, shall—</text> <clause id="H3162C60083C5425CA477F6AA3C2E843F"><enum>(i)</enum><text>develop materials to assist State and local law enforcement officials in working with Federal law enforcement to obtain continued presence for victims of a severe form of trafficking in cases investigated or prosecuted at the State or local level; and</text></clause> <clause id="H17ACE961A8044E7C9BA6006972BB3CA9"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>distribute the materials developed under clause (i) to State and local law enforcement officials.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph> <paragraph commented="no" id="H7839323B7D3E45E9B6E2A1E05EDD70B6"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The amendment made by paragraph (1)—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" id="H189078F003934BF1ABF0B4D5F6102015"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph commented="no" id="HC70DF1B927ED4994A68F1CB08EB7496D"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">shall apply to pending requests for continued presence filed pursuant to section 107(c)(3) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/7105">22 U.S.C. 7105(c)(3)</external-xref>) and requests filed on or after such date; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph commented="no" id="H0FA07687B9064B7387BCA1C27E3E9E6"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">may not be applied to an alien who is not present in the United States.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H6C3526CF2F0A40BBA67239B8EE7C57F"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Parole for derivatives of trafficking victims</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 240A(b) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1229b">8 U.S.C. 1229b(b)</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC0B41E885AE34711A1930086B1A26E08" style="OLC"> <paragraph id="HD9CD6CBBF67E4097BD75703BD47E88BC"><enum>(6)</enum><header>Relatives of trafficking victims</header> <subparagraph id="HDFC31AFA3D4A404CB48C94650616AAF7"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Upon written request by a law enforcement official, the Secretary of Homeland Security may parole under section 212(d)(5) any alien who is a relative of an alien granted continued presence under section 107(c)(3)(A) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/7105">22 U.S.C. 7105(c)(3)(A)</external-xref>), if the relative—</text> <clause id="H88603E021BBC42F2888D42AA6B890083"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">was, on the date on which law enforcement applied for such continued presence—</text> <subclause id="H33531DF195B04ADF84FA094FF2EB72F7"><enum>(I)</enum><text>in the case of an alien granted continued presence who is under 21 years of age, the spouse, child, parent, or unmarried sibling under 18 years of age, of the alien; or</text></subclause> <subclause id="HC24B262764E5487B952DE43E00ADC2A6"><enum>(II)</enum><text>in the case of an alien granted continued presence who is 21 years of age or older, the spouse or child of the alien; or</text></subclause></clause> <clause id="HBEA8A56535D64F7DAAB6B5CCB93BE462"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is a parent or sibling of the alien who the requesting law enforcement official, in consultation with the Secretary of Homeland Security, as appropriate, determines to be in present danger of retaliation as a result of the alien’s escape from the severe form of trafficking or cooperation with law enforcement, irrespective of age.</text></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HA7C3B9DE4A7C402FB0B6AA0A020E460"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Duration of parole</header> <clause commented="no" id="H6EDF7B95DC4E489EAE574BAE79125666"><enum>(i)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Secretary may extend the parole granted under subparagraph (A) until the final adjudication of the application filed by the principal alien under section 101(a)(15)(T)(ii).</text></clause> <clause commented="no" id="HC1367FC8686944A2ABD9B6EDC6D4F807"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Other limits on duration</header><text>If an application described in clause (i) is not filed, the parole granted under subparagraph (A) may extend until the later of—</text> <subclause commented="no" id="HD9327F9181C440AEBF5B21DBB42DDFA6"><enum>(I)</enum><text>the date on which the principal alien’s authority to remain in the United States under section 107(c)(3)(A) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/7105">22 U.S.C. 7105(c)(3)(A)</external-xref>) is terminated; or</text></subclause> <subclause commented="no" id="HDEF1F0EAB8F44FFF9B161BD189F214E2"><enum>(II)</enum><text>the date on which a civil action filed by the principal alien under <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/18/1595">section 1595</external-xref> of title 18, United States Code, is concluded.</text></subclause></clause> <clause commented="no" id="H1D48417021EB4F298D6582FA6FC053AE"><enum>(iii)</enum><header>Due diligence</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Failure by the principal alien to exercise due diligence in filing a visa petition on behalf of an alien described in clause (i) or (ii) of subparagraph (A), or in pursuing the civil action described in clause (ii)(II) (as determined by the Secretary of Homeland Security in consultation with the Attorney General), may result in revocation of parole.</text></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H6A4062A6996B4AE9A685931DBF3F9DF"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Other limitations</header><text>A relative may not be granted parole under this paragraph if—</text> <clause id="HA9F0A8FD7F0F4DB6B3C4205486D83CB3"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the Secretary of Homeland Security or the Attorney General has reason to believe that the relative was knowingly complicit in the trafficking of an alien permitted to remain in the United States under section 107(c)(3)(A) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/7105">22 U.S.C. 7105(c)(3)(A)</external-xref>); or</text></clause> <clause id="H3F749CADF7794756A217008374843BBB"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the relative is an alien described in paragraph (2) or (3) of section 212(a) or paragraph (2) or (4) of section 237(a).</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection></section> </subtitle> <subtitle id="H09105CB39794492BAB89374D67A85C28"><enum>B</enum><header>Assistance for trafficking victims</header> <section commented="no" id="H6A74365E8D594255AD9E267B34AEBEC"><enum>211.</enum><header>Assistance for certain nonimmigrant status applicants</header> <subsection commented="no" id="H3E306D7580B646E9B6F63CAE00BA36BC"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 431(c) of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1641">8 U.S.C. 1641(c)</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <paragraph commented="no" id="H144274D575EE4C7E9CF3AB9D1D84EA38"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in paragraph (2)(B), by striking <quote>or</quote> at the end;</text></paragraph> <paragraph commented="no" id="HF129BD312FDD4DEE8251165BA4B973F5"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in paragraph (3)(B), by striking the period at the end and inserting <quote>; or</quote>; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H7E8F78EEE6074CA48681E87532FB9963"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by inserting after paragraph (3) the following:</text> <quoted-block id="HD3D5F52311F74FFDBAFEFDC35BC75808" style="OLC"> <paragraph id="H6A3435833BF94D1F9D8CF6AB87EC4C0"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">an alien who has been granted nonimmigrant status under section 101(a)(15)(T) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1101">8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(T)</external-xref>) or who has a pending application that sets forth a prima facie case for eligibility for such nonimmigrant status.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection> <subsection commented="no" id="H15ECD222261940A2AACF11EE3FDEDB8E"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made by subsection (a) shall apply to applications for public benefits and public benefits provided on or after the date of the enactment of this Act without regard to whether regulations have been implemented to carry out such amendments.</text></subsection></section> <section id="H5ADA183BACD04F5F9C1686CA80C831F7"><enum>212.</enum><header>Interim assistance for children</header> <subsection id="H9195746C2328435BB136BC7DACD9D20"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>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 id="HEB913F7BB8344DEF80416858A2B7981F"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subparagraph (E)(i)(I), by inserting <quote>or is unable to cooperate with such a request due to physical or psychological trauma</quote> before the semicolon; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H3A337D90D24147CC9BF1ED815F804C6"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA53DC1FFA89C458FA3AF236746C7E9B" style="OLC"> <subparagraph id="HF96FB6EA2A6A4BF594B867DC386601B"><enum>(F)</enum><header>Eligibility for interim assistance of children</header> <clause id="H1DA6178D57734154B04B567781B93E68"><enum>(i)</enum><header>Determination</header><text>Upon receiving credible information that a child described in subparagraph (C)(ii)(I) who is seeking assistance under this paragraph may have been subjected to a severe form of trafficking in persons, the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall promptly determine if the child is eligible for interim assistance under this paragraph. The Secretary shall have exclusive authority to make interim eligibility determinations under this clause. A determination of interim eligibility under this clause shall not affect the independent determination whether a child is a victim of a severe form of trafficking.</text></clause> <clause id="H8A89C793F3C1443FA03144B6E665E850"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Notification</header><text>The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall notify the Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security not later than 24 hours after all interim eligibility determinations have been made under clause (i).</text></clause> <clause id="H45650AB986C0432E892C1FF3854910AC"><enum>(iii)</enum><header>Duration</header><text>Assistance under this paragraph may be provided to individuals determined to be eligible under clause (i) for a period of up to 90 days and may be extended for an additional 30 days.</text></clause> <clause id="H38DF9E7EBA334F21B27938E7AF00F27D"><enum>(iv)</enum><header>Long-term assistance for children</header> <subclause id="H641D6122A5AF4F0082E57C20071EA391"><enum>(I)</enum><header>Eligibility determination</header><text>Before the expiration of the period for interim assistance under clause (iii), the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall determine if the child referred to in clause (i) is eligible for assistance under this paragraph.</text></subclause> <subclause id="H8251281D8CFE44609514F7C2C916D52D"><enum>(II)</enum><header>Consultation</header><text>In making a determination under subclause (I), the Secretary shall consult with the Attorney General, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and nongovernmental organizations with expertise on victims of severe form of trafficking.</text></subclause> <subclause id="HB1BFC025E685486C9800CC00BB7C08DF"><enum>(III)</enum><header>Letter of eligibility</header><text>If the Secretary, after receiving information the Secretary believes, taken as a whole, indicates that the child is eligible for assistance under this paragraph, the Secretary shall issue a letter of eligibility. The Secretary may not require that the child cooperate with law enforcement as a condition for receiving such letter of eligibility.</text></subclause></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H745D83A57A984ADFAC4304C470D71761"><enum>(G)</enum><header> Notification of children for interim assistance</header><text>Not later than 24 hours after a Federal, State, or local official discovers that a person who is under 18 years of age may be a victim of a severe form of trafficking in persons, the official shall notify the Secretary of Health and Human Services to facilitate the provision of interim assistance under subparagraph (F).</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H8B086AEA6A924E358BDD8F119377D245"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Training of government personnel</header><text>Section 107(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 id="H086D5BFA38D54D5A87E962B718C979D"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Health and Human Services,</quote> after <quote>the Department of State</quote>; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HDA1A0F3EBDBC45F684032B04EFFB9463"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>, including juvenile victims. The Attorney General and the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall provide training to State and local officials to improve the identification and protection of such victims</quote> before the period at the end.</text></paragraph></subsection></section> <section id="HF264D8199CA142D3ABF7DB0013FECCD2" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>213.</enum><header>Ensuring assistance for all victims of trafficking in persons</header> <subsection id="H7E3AD8E714594B1885DFCADFDDDCB7F4"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Amendments to Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000</header> <paragraph id="H3065E6D5CBE841B3A7D462963BA818A6"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Assistance for United States citizens and lawful permanent residents</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">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>) is amended by inserting after subsection (e) the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H38BB6C2D202C40E3BC14C7CFC85CB721" style="OLC"> <subsection id="HAD3D581F56484D4F93F7FBAEC1A60089"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Assistance for United States citizens and lawful permanent residents</header> <paragraph id="HC0E1AA121CD4495882710294751F9830"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Attorney General, in consultation with the Secretary of Labor, shall establish a program to assist United States citizens and aliens lawfully admitted for permanent residence (as defined in section 101(a)(20) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1101">8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(20)</external-xref>)) who are victims of severe forms of trafficking. In determining the assistance that would be most beneficial for such victims, the Secretary and the Attorney General shall consult with nongovernmental organizations that provide services to victims of severe forms of trafficking in the United States.</text></paragraph> <paragraph commented="no" id="H127E97716D5A4266A94496EADEA5FC94"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Use of existing programs</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In addition to specialized services required for victims described in paragraph (1), the program established pursuant to paragraph (1) shall—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" id="H6922A71616BE4BFE836D5F01A832E447"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">facilitate communication and coordination between the providers of assistance to such victims;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph commented="no" id="HD44B7A2825B34448A47232D83CBBFE09"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">provide a means to identify such providers; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph commented="no" id="H1928BF81C7E244E3A900BA3FBE756770"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">provide a means to make referrals to programs for which such victims are already eligible, including programs administered by the Department of Justice and the Department of Health and Human Services.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph commented="no" id="H4F212CDD8AD7445E84F67100614243E3"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Grants</header> <subparagraph commented="no" id="H172C5E7792F44EC887BB05B0B99520DF"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Attorney General may award grants to States, Indian tribes, units of local government, and nonprofit, nongovernmental victim service organizations to develop, expand, and strengthen victim service programs authorized under this subsection.</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph commented="no" id="H3496742036924109A64FD67EEAA6447C"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Maximum federal share</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Federal share of a grant awarded under this paragraph may not exceed 75 percent of the total costs of the projects described in the application submitted by the grantee.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph> <paragraph id="H4A875128A03B4E02B1007000E177D03E"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Authorization of appropriations</header><text>Section 113 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/7110">22 U.S.C. 7110</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <subparagraph id="H0D70FB04DBD84905B4EBFC805C215F3"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in subsection (b)—</text> <clause id="H45EFDCD587DA47EEBBB43713E25F1487"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by striking <quote>To carry out</quote> and inserting the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB5D8330009C54399A29281DA11FDA500" style="OLC"> <paragraph id="HFC088994B61D4607ACC5CBCEB782774"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Eligibility for benefits and assistance</header><text>To carry out</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></clause> <clause id="H9AFEC4A171E74A19872CDED7D3BB8303"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H0EAB23EAF23B4957B9576D739BC40046" style="OLC"> <paragraph id="H13B864C5BA56474FA4CCA75E35F24111"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Additional benefits for trafficking victims</header><text>To carry out the purposes of section 107(f), there are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of Health and Human Services—</text> <subparagraph id="H66E6D44527F24825A727AC006999B39C"><enum>(A)</enum><text>$2,500,000 for fiscal year 2008;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HC909B1ED0F944D5EA416921662B8D7DD"><enum>(B)</enum><text>$5,000,0000 for fiscal year 2009;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H3E6601FC44504B60966DF3DE8E5137A1"><enum>(C)</enum><text>$7,000,000 for fiscal year 2010; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H5B83A7CCB1E540ABA3CC00907DCB3D77"><enum>(D)</enum><text>$7,000,000 for fiscal year 2011.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HCED93326835A40E7AB3B4568C0ACC6FA"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in subsection (d)—</text> <clause id="H9327DF5930894BFCACE1C9BC1FBF82AE"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by striking <quote>To carry out the purposes of section 107(b)</quote> and inserting the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4D15209BD23947C98C79327457003BE" style="OLC"> <subparagraph id="HD22597BDD54E4D96B321CDF6F1B2BD6D"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Eligibility for benefits and assistance</header><text>To carry out the purposes of section 107(b)</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></clause> <clause id="H329222CF0C144E2F9900B97F36691D86"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by striking <quote>To carry out the purposes of section 134</quote> and inserting the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H9B47F7FB8D45420EBAE50227000040A9" style="OLC"> <subparagraph id="HF5031BAC35544246BA1860A2166DB749"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Assistance to foreign countries</header><text>To carry out the purposes of section 134</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></clause> <clause id="HA5F61204100845C582BE3CFBC597CB83"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC2D219E5209C4C298D3FC79F619EF0E9" style="OLC"> <subparagraph id="HC7345A64D02A4E6B84FF3E9F537621FA"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Additional benefits for trafficking victims</header><text>To carry out the purposes of section 107(f), there are authorized to be appropriated to the Attorney General—</text> <clause id="H9B49646FCDFF432A94C41EBCF41478AC"><enum>(i)</enum><text>$2,500,000 for fiscal year 2008;</text></clause> <clause id="HFE6694E9B6DE410B905928002EEA132F"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>$5,000,0000 for fiscal year 2009;</text></clause> <clause id="H1E1B7976436A4E3F9C00003C07E404D1"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>$7,000,000 for fiscal year 2010; and</text></clause> <clause id="HD1181A16D32845F7B6A53D985D416767"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>$7,000,000 for fiscal year 2011.</text></clause></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></clause></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="HF67826700489426A9B9D2F8BB7A09BFD"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Technical assistance</header><text>Section 107(b)(2)(B)(ii) 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)(B)(ii)</external-xref>) is amended to read as follows:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB3EBDB46AEA04895A72518C1062565BB" style="OLC"> <clause id="HE2F911D13CA443068983160044FEFD00"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">5 percent for training and technical assistance, including increasing capacity and expertise on security for and protection of service providers from intimidation or retaliation for their activities.</text></clause><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HA3FDBBF61BE646EF897DD45DD8001B50"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Study</header> <paragraph id="H8E7AD37969574CEF961663D08BC6A93"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Requirement</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Attorney General and the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall submit a report to the appropriate congressional committees that identifies the existence and extent of any service gap between victims described in 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</external-xref>) and individuals described in section 107(f) of such Act, as amended by section 213(a) of this Act.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HB0778974371043FCA847727597DBD9DE"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Elements</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In carrying out the study under subparagraph (1), the Attorney General and the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall—</text> <subparagraph id="HA7B935DAC385454F91FAA716CA7CB7F6"><enum>(A)</enum><text>investigate factors relating to the legal ability of the victims described in paragraph (1) to access government-funded social services in general, including the application of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1641">8 U.S.C. 1641(c)(5)</external-xref>) and the Illegal Immigration and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (division C of <external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/104/208">Public Law 104–208</external-xref>; 110 Stat. 3009 et seq.);</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H491059FDCAA54863997B3D298045B491"><enum>(B)</enum><text>investigate any other impediments to the access of the victims described in paragraph (1) to government-funded social services;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HD6E090CDC68548DF9452006716E908FE"><enum>(C)</enum><text>investigate any impediments to the access of the victims described in paragraph (1) to government-funded services targeted to victims of severe forms of trafficking;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HD30587769A924E65BDD8F673289D5502"><enum>(D)</enum><text>investigate the effect of trafficking service-provider infrastructure development, continuity of care, and availability of caseworkers on the eventual restoration and rehabilitation of the victims described in paragraph (1); and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H1BE02B9B34744653AD3B7B69CDB9E8EF"><enum>(E)</enum><text>include findings, best practices, and recommendations, if any, based on the study of the elements described in subparagraphs (A) through (D) and any other related information.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section></subtitle> <subtitle id="H5CBFF79F37924B04A448006FF4AD9C5D"><enum>C</enum><header>Penalties against traffickers and other crimes</header> <section id="H95F137657F994A8A84C6F5CFD20009F0"><enum>221.</enum><header>Restitution of forfeited assets; enhancement of civil action</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc-chapter" parsable-cite="usc-chapter/18/77">Chapter 77</external-xref> of title 18, United States Code, is amended—</text> <paragraph id="H100F926A4EF542779FD1BA3C9105F065"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in section 1593(b), by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block id="HD266EF0C1F864889AC95C7BADCB3F19" style="OLC"> <paragraph id="HBADBF77D467044B1A3C312CB7F75F95" indent="up1"><enum>(4)</enum><text>The forfeiture of property under this subsection shall be governed by the provisions of section 413 (other than subsection (d) of such section) of the Controlled Substances Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/21/853">21 U.S.C. 853</external-xref>).</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph> <paragraph id="HC3BE1AF14D3143D48483128C7EC34FCA"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in section 1595—</text> <subparagraph id="HAA24C2AC56F7486C87A85151A2622E80"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in subsection (a)—</text> <clause id="H7455A133226449B194469622D6E66E73"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by striking <quote>of section 1589, 1590, or 1591</quote>; and</text></clause> <clause id="H37FC4C5ACE5A4F4B8225043C7228E4EE"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>(or whoever knowingly benefits, financially or by receiving anything of value from participation in a venture which that person knew or should have known has engaged in an act in violation of this chapter)</quote> after <quote>perpetrator</quote>; and</text></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H9E9CE0EED7D04284AE00D02F925F00B2"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block id="HEDB6290DAF164FFABBCCB00FD29FDBA" style="OLC"> <subsection id="HF514D1E199294509B43B005734000755"><enum>(c)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">No action may be maintained under this section unless it is commenced not later than 10 years after the cause of action arose.</text></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph></section> <section id="HB6444767341D4B989F3CA2FCDF00EECB"><enum>222.</enum><header>Enhancing penalties for trafficking offenses</header> <subsection id="H655FF402E1AC4078B3C0D615C3478089"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Detention</header><text><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/18/3142">Section 3142(e)</external-xref> of title 18, United States Code, is amended—</text> <paragraph id="HFEC27EA49CE04894BE4025F198FDCF"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by redesignating paragraphs (1), (2), and (3) as subparagraphs (A), (B), and (C), respectively;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H972809C18E3F4537BB7B1EE2DF381E89"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by inserting <quote><header-in-text level="paragraph" style="USC">(1)</header-in-text></quote> before <quote>If, after a hearing</quote>;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HAD0D9A94EE614C8DB3006662D3C36DBF"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by inserting <quote><header-in-text level="paragraph" style="USC">(2)</header-in-text></quote> before <quote>In a case</quote>;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H071C67C502094EB1982E51255C067972"><enum>(4)</enum><text>by inserting <quote><header-in-text level="paragraph" style="USC">(3)</header-in-text></quote> before <quote>Subject to rebuttal</quote>;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HFF911411469747628D152C67758E1800"><enum>(5)</enum><text>by striking <quote>paragraph (1) of this subsection</quote> each place it appears and inserting <quote>subparagraph (A)</quote>;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H4A8CEFD382B643FFAA50C7AB6305D0D0"><enum>(6)</enum><text>in paragraph (3), as redesignated—</text> <subparagraph id="HD37968A85231478CAF4847B36402B6E2"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking <quote>committed an offense</quote> and inserting the following: “committed—</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H3B762196D3824AF4B776B43612060052" style="OLC"> <subparagraph id="HA2925C16D3CB4AE3B009D42459B8D512" indent="up1"><enum>(A)</enum><text>an offense</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H4763EBAEDF5E452A84046C653EF86141"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking <quote>46, an offense</quote> and inserting the following: “46;</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB1B2865B94D44E5E9562EA8483F66448" style="OLC"> <subparagraph id="HB131EDC506C94CB19C084CD5C9DB07F4" indent="up1"><enum>(B)</enum><text>an offense</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H29312E64FBE344D388005871AA854EB5"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by striking <quote>title, or an offense</quote> and inserting the following: “title;</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA94A6EF5C89340F3A5F650733C9C9E8B" style="OLC"> <subparagraph id="H97037EB5761945BEA8B2B87B336EF212" indent="up1"><enum>(C)</enum><text>an offense</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H719F5D55D8694E0100004846113688B6"><enum>(D)</enum><text>by striking <quote>prescribed or an offense</quote> and inserting the following: “prescribed;</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H89EE6ED894A6430AB616789F4321BFF8" style="OLC"> <subparagraph id="H967A3402167441CB867B99714DD5E8C7" indent="up1"><enum>(D)</enum><text>an offense under chapter 77 of this title for which a maximum term of imprisonment of 20 years or more is prescribed; or</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HA081048A1BF443509521089BABB4932" indent="up1"><enum>(E)</enum><text>an offense</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H4D7A0356397B426AB4C065B0D83992F0"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Preventing obstruction</header> <paragraph id="H04DD6FCEC05548A8B8D574FA2431F13F"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Enticement into slavery</header><text><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/18/1583">Section 1583</external-xref> of title 18, United States Code, is amended to read as follows:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HFEE1C5C283E54FF8A0DE05108AF67C0" style="USC"> <section id="H4FED2E0FB4504B1B8C38AE2BE69A3AE"><enum>1583.</enum><header>Enticement into slavery</header> <subsection id="HC4D88102F2DB4E4CB9522D59ACC0005"><enum>(a)</enum><text>Whoever—</text> <paragraph id="H68AB8B26D35749B6B0753F00ACFEE87E"><enum>(1)</enum><text>kidnaps or carries away any other person, with the intent that such other person be sold into involuntary servitude, or held as a slave;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HB43842184E0F4DEAA924258C231B28BC"><enum>(2)</enum><text>entices, persuades, or induces any other person to go on board any vessel or to any other place with the intent that he or she may be made or held as a slave, or sent out of the country to be so made or held; or</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HDF6009398B2F49828482E23504199B31"><enum>(3)</enum><text>obstructs, or attempts to obstruct, or in any way interferes with or prevents the enforcement of this section,</text></paragraph><continuation-text continuation-text-level="subsection">shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.</continuation-text></subsection> <subsection id="H183BD9BED3214A6182E32E4C7EB6CBB"><enum>(b)</enum><text>Whoever violates this section shall be fined under this title, imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both if—</text> <paragraph id="H3C980591E5E149F7BCD6645400CC7942"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the violation results in the death of the victim; or</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H867A50CDE91A4DE1B801D6F8C3BCAE54"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the violation includes kidnaping, an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse, an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill.</text></paragraph></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph> <paragraph id="H9828C2D456274F5ABFB6EC54EB65594C"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Sale into involuntary servitude</header><text>Section 1584 of such title is amended—</text> <subparagraph id="HB5D86281E4F84633A7EB986F02635E00"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking <quote>Whoever</quote> and inserting the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HFF533CBE38A54C4197444906B6253DCB" style="OLC"> <subsection id="H04A157D19F62423DBD021BDE6D08897F"><enum>(a)</enum><text>Whoever</text></subsection><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H342319F5ED2D4846BEB77461D2F3DEE4"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H9E13D7F58BF34311B4C6BD1647E14D45" style="OLC"> <subsection id="H1396BA8436194BE384E706F0B92B5F16"><enum>(b)</enum><text>Whoever obstructs, attempts to obstruct, or in any way interferes with or prevents the enforcement of this section, shall be subject to the penalties described in subsection (a).</text></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H719D5DE0C8664C8BA17DAAA857B74CCD"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Punishing financial gain from trafficked labor</header><text>Section 1589 of such title is amended to read as follows:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H11FF2E194B1C43C0BE23E85C941FA273" style="OLC"> <section id="H9D073257D5594AE680AE1321A19973AA"><enum>1589.</enum><header>Forced labor</header> <subsection id="HE9DD85888A96408AAB85D2A24E07F08B"><enum>(a)</enum><text>Whoever knowingly provides or obtains the labor or services of a person by any one of, or by any combination of, the following means—</text> <paragraph id="HABC3CF20FFF24B98B0A7C97073264566"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by means of force, threats of force, physical restraint, or threats of physical restraint to that person or another person;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HA5F40F2A5E50448597CC3E62DB83DA85"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by means of serious harm or threats of serious harm to that person or another person;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H35C4B6547B11467D874CB17173826084"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by means of the abuse or threatened abuse of law or legal process; or</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H88D9A08D64654F2EAC10DE4DB89EFACF"><enum>(4)</enum><text>by means of any scheme, plan, or pattern intended to cause the person to believe that, if that person did not perform such labor or services, that person or another person would suffer serious harm or physical restraint,</text></paragraph><continuation-text continuation-text-level="subsection">shall be punished as provided under subsection (d).</continuation-text></subsection> <subsection id="H26E90AD5765E4D17B75114C23180101B"><enum>(b)</enum><text>Whoever knowingly benefits, financially or by receiving anything of value, from participation in a venture which has engaged in the providing or obtaining of labor or services by any of the means described in subsection (a), knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that the venture has engaged in the providing or obtaining of labor or services by any of such means, shall be punished as provided in subsection (d).</text></subsection> <subsection id="H36AB215484E245ABBE9BEED728CE1989"><enum>(c)</enum><text>In this section:</text> <paragraph id="H86338EF7DF9C4033994709533D1EC83C"><enum>(1)</enum><text>The term <term>abuse or threatened abuse of law or legal process</term> means the use or threatened use of a law or legal process, whether administrative, civil, or criminal, in any manner or for any purpose for which the law was not designed, in order to exert pressure on another person to cause that person to take some action or refrain from taking some action.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H3FA37E9B95F44A02A6CA56F771FF412"><enum>(2)</enum><text>The term <term>serious harm</term> means any harm, whether physical or nonphysical, including psychological, financial, or reputational harm, that is sufficiently serious, under all the surrounding circumstances, to compel a reasonable person of the same background and in the same circumstances to perform or to continue performing labor or services in order to avoid incurring that harm.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H43E61C211991479690E000004160C900"><enum>(d)</enum><text>Whoever violates this section shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both. If death results from a violation of this section, or if the violation includes kidnaping, an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, the defendant shall be fined under this title, imprisoned for any term of years or life, or both.</text></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph> <paragraph id="HF5C64DB67BAC4A4492C600B9009DEE2E"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Trafficking</header><text>Section 1590 of such title is amended—</text> <subparagraph id="HB6ACEEC1E8F9492F9D5CCD36DBFDBF19"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking <quote>Whoever</quote> and inserting the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE44FF2E87DE7413FAAD74135ACF50493" style="OLC"> <subsection id="HD7EA3A36A89441CF8FDD001700765DE8"><enum>(a)</enum><text>Whoever</text></subsection><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H0E19EDB61D014598816868E1C26AB8D"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HAC58E59597D346C2A769106805D6155" style="OLC"> <subsection id="HFC7A85D9012742D3B82663B92CB99DAE"><enum>(b)</enum><text>Whoever obstructs, attempts to obstruct, or in any way interferes with or prevents the enforcement of this section, shall be subject to the penalties under subsection (a).</text></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H4448BBF0CC0E4A5188627BDE768CE7C3"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Sex trafficking of children</header><text>Section 1591 of such title is amended—</text> <subparagraph id="H599D685D74164B86837915918D000969"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in subsection (a)—</text> <clause id="H2D5184689F9A44A397006B0224519F1D"><enum>(i)</enum><text>in paragraph (1), by striking <quote>or obtains</quote> and inserting <quote>obtains, or maintains</quote>; and</text></clause> <clause id="HE7E77A2CB43C46E4AF2B637186AFAD34"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>in the matter following paragraph (2), by striking <quote>that force, fraud, or coercion described in subsection (c)(2)</quote> and inserting <quote>, or in reckless disregard of the fact, that means of force, threats of force, fraud, coercion described in subsection (e)(2), or any combination of such means</quote>;</text></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H751052990F7D4127B432D66F68E85922"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by redesignating subsection (c) as subsection (e);</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H23591448D61F4AC497CB7EE11FED153F"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in subsection (b)(1), by striking <quote>force, fraud, or coercion</quote> and inserting <quote>means of force, threats of force, fraud, or coercion described in subsection (e)(2), or by any combination of such means,</quote>;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H3DAD98325F8C422585E149E338B822C3"><enum>(D)</enum><text>by inserting after subsection (b) the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HEFA4784DC635489FA566C94546715031" style="OLC"> <subsection id="HFA77480493CB4D95B61F2B55CAF25634"><enum>(c)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In a prosecution under subsection (a)(1) in which the defendant had a reasonable opportunity to observe the person so recruited, enticed, harbored, transported, provided, obtained or maintained, the Government need not prove that the defendant knew that the person had not attained the age of 18 years.</text></subsection> <subsection id="H9CD755D937974E49AB1800BEA1467643"><enum>(d)</enum><text>Whoever obstructs, attempts to obstruct, or in any way interferes with or prevents the enforcement of this section, shall be fined under this title, imprisoned for a term not to exceed 20 years, or both.</text></subsection><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HE88CC79740E345B789515407AFEDAC4"><enum>(E)</enum><text>in subsection (e), as redesignated—</text> <clause id="HCCAEAE3D258C469B8B3165F56C6BEC11"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by redesignating paragraph (3) as paragraph (5);</text></clause> <clause id="HEACE69BDF22542748D6FC84DAFC2F5A8"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by redesignating paragraph (1) as paragraph (3);</text></clause> <clause id="H306316B0F3CF457EB2E390C329A8B691"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>by inserting before paragraph (2) the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC48BA15644F149A4AA6C7200B3EA2FAF" style="OLC"> <paragraph id="H7909FD18E70F4DF8B079CF983871A1D2"><enum>(1)</enum><text>The term <term>abuse or threatened abuse of law or legal process</term> means the use or threatened use of a law or legal process, whether administrative, civil, or criminal, in any manner or for any purpose for which the law was not designed, in order to exert pressure on another person to cause that person to take some action or refrain from taking some action. </text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></clause> <clause id="H73C78C16513945318C5D8490F237BDC7"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>by inserting after paragraph (3), as redesignated, the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H934EEF39B3214E8EAA005DC872836574" style="OLC"> <paragraph id="HD463AAD31E344CF79016F6EBB91BEDB8"><enum>(4)</enum><text>The term <term>serious harm</term> means any harm, whether physical or nonphysical, including psychological, financial, or reputational harm, that is sufficiently serious, under all the surrounding circumstances, to compel a reasonable person of the same background and in the same circumstances to perform or to continue performing commercial sexual activity in order to avoid incurring that harm.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></clause></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H66C802B3583944BAAF62F8D39B22D041"><enum>(6)</enum><header>Unlawful conduct</header><text>Section 1592 of such title is amended by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H1AB97074255B42F0A540B6A66CBEE2C" style="OLC"> <subsection id="H0CFE27330819480CBAE706E85573E3AE"><enum>(c)</enum><text>Whoever obstructs, attempts to obstruct, or in any way interferes with or prevents the enforcement of this section, shall be subject to the penalties described in subsection (a).</text></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H083EBA27C06649AE9D6771E337002E92"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Holding conspirators accountable</header><text><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/18/1594">Section 1594</external-xref> of title 18, United States Code, is amended—</text> <paragraph id="H25474659C1194775B2DEBC65F500B7F8"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by redesignating subsections (b), (c), and (d) as subsections (d), (e), and (f), respectively; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H008D3A3853B14F7B93A59FFD62FF180"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by inserting after subsection (a) the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB583CF36BF56472C985CF53530B2A996" style="OLC"> <subsection id="HF9CA86D776154C19B4C08245D32F1714"><enum>(b)</enum><text>Whoever conspires with another to violate section 1581, 1583, 1589, 1590, or 1592 shall be punished in the same manner as a completed violation of such section.</text></subsection> <subsection id="HF5417E369D9A493DA4E7F14156BF15F9"><enum>(c)</enum><text>Whoever conspires with another to violate section 1591 shall be fined under this title, imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both.</text></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HFAD764EA4C8B4506A941BFA1F5A817DC"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Benefitting financially from peonage, slavery, and trafficking in persons</header> <paragraph id="H4F09AC3EFA7A41A19C41B6AF72C175C"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text><external-xref legal-doc="usc-chapter" parsable-cite="usc-chapter/18/77">Chapter 77</external-xref> of title 18, United States Code, is amended by inserting after <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/18/1593">section 1593</external-xref> the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H17DFAEDD19C44FF38FFF2DDFB1331E52" style="USC"> <section id="H54D90B534AFB4D85BD20D29C90D6ED74"><enum>1593A.</enum><header>Benefitting financially from peonage, slavery, and trafficking in persons</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Whoever knowingly benefits, financially or by receiving anything of value, from participation in a venture which has engaged in any act in violation of section 1581(a), 1592, or 1595(a), knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that the venture has engaged in such violation, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned in the same manner as a completed violation of such section.</text></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph> <paragraph id="HB7838841051B467BAD0645FE83251265"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Clerical amendment</header><text>The table of sections at the beginning of such chapter is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 1593 the following:</text> <quoted-block id="H2A0BCC4FE8114CBCBE14759CBB28047B" style="USC"> <toc> <toc-entry idref="H54D90B534AFB4D85BD20D29C90D6ED74" level="section">Sec. 1593A. Benefitting financially from peonage, slavery, and trafficking in persons.</toc-entry></toc><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HBE43789178C04E40919F01C388BCD7CB" commented="no"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Retaliation in foreign labor contracting</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc-chapter" parsable-cite="usc-chapter/18/63">Chapter 63</external-xref> of title 18, United States Code, is amended—</text> <paragraph id="HD271B74D6A884B53A934AFAAE11FA8C8" commented="no"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in the chapter heading, by adding at the end the following: <quote><header-in-text level="chapter" style="USC">and other fraud offenses</header-in-text></quote>;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HAA9BD15A4D6C4A2AAE06F2E77D77A0A8" commented="no"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following: </text> <quoted-block style="USC" id="HBE28EDD7F3144CDA9513889F16BEFA78" display-inline="no-display-inline"> <section id="H10CA070F5D5747D996BD171CA5B0025" commented="no"><enum>1351.</enum><header>Fraud in foreign labor contracting</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Whoever knowingly and with intent to defraud recruits, solicits or hires a person outside the United States for purposes of employment in the United States by means of materially false or fraudulent pretenses, representations or promises regarding that employment shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for not more than 5 years, or both. </text></section><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph> <paragraph id="H6EBF441C30AA49F891C100004D82C7AB"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in the table of sections, by inserting after the item relating to section 1350 the following:</text> <quoted-block style="USC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HEF3EA547F784414AB4322532871F00E6"> <toc regeneration="no-regeneration"> <toc-entry level="section">1351. Fraud in foreign labor contracting.</toc-entry></toc><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H60B0983742A64B36AEA754803958F624"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Tightening immigration prohibitions</header> <paragraph id="H323159FCC2FA46489B00C58143020556"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Ground of inadmissibility for trafficking</header><text>Section 212(a)(2)(H)(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1182">8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(2)(H)(i)</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>who is listed in a report submitted pursuant to section 111(b) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000</quote> and inserting <quote>who commits or conspires to commit human trafficking offenses in the United States or outside the United States</quote>.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HB3F396ED81DB4F30BA41EE9E67A54CF"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Ground of removability</header><text>Section 237(a)(2) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1227">8 U.S.C. 1227(a)(2)</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC7B2494101984818803C4554DFB9F14" style="OLC"> <subparagraph id="H9F4E5560AA3A4E06AE67C02D003951CC"><enum>(F)</enum><header>Trafficking</header><text>Any alien described in section 212(a)(2)(H) is deportable.</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H17FD941E07814367B909A3DA20D0ED93"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Amendment to Sentencing Guidelines</header><text>Pursuant to its authority under <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/28/994">section 994</external-xref> of title 28, United States Code, the United States Sentencing Commission shall review and, if appropriate, amend the sentencing guidelines and policy statements applicable to persons convicted of alien harboring to ensure conformity with the sentencing guidelines applicable to persons convicted of promoting a commercial sex act if—</text> <paragraph id="H5BB8491684F94086BE809E3212A309EA"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the harboring was committed in furtherance of prostitution; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H25BBE5EAC8AA48A9943FA682028C3B68"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the defendant to be sentenced is an organizer, leader, manager, or supervisor of the criminal activity.</text></paragraph></subsection></section> <section id="H25942B0E177642DD94F4DC5636EB6537"><enum>223.</enum><header>Jurisdiction in certain trafficking offenses</header> <subsection changed="added" committee-id="HFA00" id="H33C5E473D1FF4EC900C33BAA217670AA"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text><external-xref legal-doc="usc-chapter" parsable-cite="usc-chapter/18/77">Chapter 77</external-xref> of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block changed="added" committee-id="HFA00" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H7B7EC27F30F0419DB155962E2841579C" style="USC"> <section id="HB1E9EA8DF17240FCAF3C37F360E66C16"><enum>1596.</enum><header>Additional jurisdiction in certain trafficking offenses</header> <subsection id="H7F6A61AA8D734BB7920700D837DE5BDB"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In addition to any domestic or extra-territorial jurisdiction otherwise provided by law, the courts of the United States have extra-territorial jurisdiction over any offense (or any attempt or conspiracy to commit an offense) under section 1581, 1583, 1584, 1589, 1590, or 1591 if—</text> <paragraph id="HA0E4EB66DBAD475E9F3D7000DA087951"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">an alleged offender is a national of the United States or an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence (as those terms are defined in section 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1101">8 U.S.C. 1101</external-xref>)); or</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H31C145DDD7134BFD8C389C5BAE23C744"><enum>(2)</enum><text>an alleged offender is present in the United States, irrespective of the nationality of the alleged offender.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HB57736794B7C4E52AC9268A3FF0922D2"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Limitation on prosecutions of offenses prosecuted in other countries</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">No prosecution may be commenced against a person under this section if a foreign government, in accordance with jurisdiction recognized by the United States, has prosecuted or is prosecuting such person for the conduct constituting such offense, except upon the approval of the Attorney General or the Deputy Attorney General (or a person acting in either such capacity), which function of approval may not be delegated.</text></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection> <subsection changed="added" committee-id="HFA00" id="H2F8F45CEAC2E45BA8F663599FA105923"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Clerical amendment</header><text>The table of sections at the beginning of <external-xref legal-doc="usc-chapter" parsable-cite="usc-chapter/18/77">chapter 77</external-xref> of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block changed="added" committee-id="HFA00" id="H2E98D152D8DF4D6294C4183F60F3D4E5" style="USC"> <toc changed="added" committee-id="HFA00"> <toc-entry idref="HB1E9EA8DF17240FCAF3C37F360E66C16" level="section">1596. Additional jurisdiction in certain trafficking offenses.</toc-entry></toc><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection></section> <section id="H9A083D91FB8F459BB02118007BCF0053"><enum>224.</enum><header>Bail conditions, subpoenas, and repeat offender penalties for sex trafficking</header> <subsection id="HD4096AD770A64124B111FE00B96E0038"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Release and detention</header><text>Subsections (f)(1)(A) and (g)(1) of <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/18/3142">section 3142</external-xref> of title 18, United States Code, are amended by striking <quote>violence,</quote> each place such term appears and inserting <quote>violence, a violation of section 1591,</quote>.</text></subsection> <subsection id="HC40CA618C066494D87F380F228F87E85"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Subpoenas</header><text><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/18/3486">Section 3486(a)(1)(D)</external-xref> of title 18, United States Code, is amended by inserting <quote>1591,</quote> after <quote>1201,</quote>.</text></subsection> <subsection id="H6F2BD9AB2EB349338DE65916F0C7DD7C"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Repeat offenders</header><text><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/18/2426">Section 2426(b)(1)(A)</external-xref> of title 18, United States Code, is amended, by striking <quote>or chapter 110</quote> and inserting <quote>chapter 110, or section 1591</quote>.</text></subsection></section> <section id="H2F169195E5EE467CB9F1C8D875651684"><enum>225.</enum><header>Promoting effective State enforcement</header> <subsection id="H9AD07574BBBF4084825FB06E02165977"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Relationship among Federal and State law</header><text>Nothing in this Act, the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2003, the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2005, chapters 77 and 117 of title 18, United States Code, or any model law issued by the Department of Justice to carry out the purposes of any of the aforementioned statutes—</text> <paragraph id="HCD9C82A9B9934BF9BCD9979800B0E9E1"><enum>(1)</enum><text>may be construed to treat prostitution as a valid form of employment under Federal law; or</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HC22E997B14ED478BB21C2D1024AF1009"><enum>(2)</enum><text>shall preempt, supplant, or limit the effect of any State or Federal criminal law.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HFA604438FCDB4FDAA6A7DDF1BB13B2E6"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Model State criminal provisions</header><text>In addition to any model State antitrafficking statutes in effect on the date of the enactment of this Act, the Attorney General shall facilitate the promulgation of a model State statute that—</text> <paragraph id="HEC7D0DD92AEC441095C0EC393FAAB6BF"><enum>(1)</enum><text>furthers a comprehensive approach to investigation and prosecution through modernization of State and local prostitution and pandering statutes; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HF2B0B70C183D4DA38B18A6B6913289A"><enum>(2)</enum><text>is based in part on the provisions of the Act of August 15, 1935 (49 Stat. 651; D.C. Code 22–2701 et seq.) (relating to prostitution and pandering).</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H021CB867A3F54FB2BB008282BE76735F"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Distribution</header><text>The model statute described in subsection (b) and the text of chapter 27 of the Criminal Code of the District of Columbia (D.C. Code 22–2701 et seq.) shall be—</text> <paragraph id="H0407909E9A19406EB1BC908FC85110A5"><enum>(1)</enum><text>posted on the website of the Department of Justice; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H5DFE1239012748B7A8A3292892BB3997"><enum>(2)</enum><text>distributed to the Attorney General of each State.</text></paragraph></subsection></section></subtitle> <subtitle id="HFE5FE472B415490D8DC8BA00AD34A013"><enum>D</enum><header>Activities of the United States Government</header> <section id="H0785B3309E3C45F18085B534E5548B35"><enum>231.</enum><header>Annual report by the Attorney General</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 105(d)(7) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/7103">22 U.S.C. 7103(d)(7)</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="HA19278B6518E43F799C4207DEFFD5D5"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (A)—</text> <subparagraph id="H0EF34C626D4E43B6AB12734B056E83EB"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>section 107(b)</quote> and inserting <quote>subsections (b) and (f) of section 107</quote>; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H90DCA50C41004E7E002843CD251529FA"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting <quote>the Attorney General,</quote> after <quote>the Secretary of Labor,</quote>;</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H5FC395976F4B4AF2B874F0CD95682837"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subparagraph (G), by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HB6068C21DABA4988BE4EA249138DD246"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by redesignating subparagraph (H) as subparagraph (J); and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H19985962A1F24A9B90CA4300064C0407"><enum>(4)</enum><text>by inserting after subparagraph (G) the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H27AD889B78C946BC908B29D6E2741F4F" style="OLC"> <subparagraph id="HF4C94B18390E44C8B70213D6364479AF"><enum>(H)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">activities by the Department of Defense to combat trafficking in persons, including—</text> <clause id="HC14749FC3C724887B6D9459B1892EFF4"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">educational efforts for, and disciplinary actions taken against, members of the United States Armed Forces;</text></clause> <clause id="HEB909B6022704F80A35906B311DC0064"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the development of materials used to train the armed forces of foreign countries; and</text></clause> <clause id="HE336E11951DC43AF811D6B6022AF2F90"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">efforts to ensure that United States Government contractors and their employees or United States Government subcontractors and their employees do not engage in trafficking in persons;</text></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HEE113269A20947F0AF9281E691FEFECE"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">activities or actions by Federal departments and agencies to enforce—</text> <clause id="H33DA74EE08434FCEBFB8B6288EC2DD6E"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">section 106(g) and any similar law, regulation, or policy relating to United States Government contractors and their employees or United States Government subcontractors and their employees that engage in severe forms of trafficking in persons, the procurement of commercial sex acts, or the use of forced labor, including debt bondage;</text></clause> <clause id="H52FE1D46130A4445BF45CB5FF003C15"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">section 307 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/19/1307">19 U.S.C. 1307</external-xref>; relating to prohibition on importation of convict-made goods), including any determinations by the Secretary of Homeland Security to waive the restrictions of such section; and</text></clause> <clause id="HB397F7E0231343188FC0B064CAFD8515"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">prohibitions on the procurement by the United States Government of items or services produced by slave labor, consistent with Executive Order 13107 (December 10, 1998); and</text></clause></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></section> <section id="H81FA91BBA8DB4BEB91B537C54C015295"><enum>232.</enum><header>Investigation by the Inspectors General</header> <subsection id="HE83595E814FB48F2A2A1C71D88E1F43E"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>For each of the fiscal years 2010 through 2012, the Inspectors General of the Department of Defense, the Department of State, and the United States Agency for International Development shall investigate a sample of the contracts described in subsection (b).</text></subsection> <subsection id="H8CBBD12F26084687A8F77B3141888930"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Contracts described</header> <paragraph id="H8F41221143934BAF00B119A148947E05"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The contracts described in subsection (a) are contracts, or subcontracts at any tier, under which there is a heightened risk that a contractor may engage, knowingly or unknowingly, in acts related to trafficking in persons, such as—</text> <subparagraph id="HF8CB066437F44B40BE05BBC95370B901"><enum>(A)</enum><text>confiscation of an employee’s passport;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H7BA33A2FF5D3428291C9FC6B1F9F2CF2"><enum>(B)</enum><text>restriction on an employee’s mobility;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H9610B0D16E3D4CE784F8D254CD4015EE"><enum>(C)</enum><text>abrupt or evasive repatriation of an employee;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HEAFB4B83351D4F8CABED445005621991"><enum>(D)</enum><text>deception of an employee regarding the work destination; or</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H44680FBE634541B89E1613865B83A899"><enum>(E)</enum><text>acts otherwise described in section 106(g) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/7104">22 U.S.C. 7104</external-xref>).</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H6EDCB98105844977961D3F4347199C2C"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Consultation and information received</header><text>In determining the type of contact that should be investigated pursuant to subsection (a), the Inspectors General shall—</text> <subparagraph id="H21AA5B08DD064644BFAEAAD8FA2FE521"><enum>(A)</enum><text>consult with the Director of the Office to Combat Trafficking in Persons of the Department of State; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H742352A0B25A4F939FABEFDC3531A548"><enum>(B)</enum><text>take into account any credible information received regarding report of trafficking in persons.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HB9B5C3960042466184D492A0CF5F1DD0"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Congressional notification</header> <paragraph id="H671EA630D9384A92BC918EE4B1873DCB"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Not later than January 15, 2009, and annually thereafter through January 15, 2011, each Inspector General shall submit a report to the congressional committees listed in paragraph (3)—</text> <subparagraph id="H1F8769E201F84AC08621B775A9D4943C"><enum>(A)</enum><text>summarizing the findings of the investigations conducted in the previous year, including any findings regarding trafficking in persons or any improvements needed to prevent trafficking in persons; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HECD6AC82826846F39774F504A0276200"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in the case of any contractor or subcontractor with regard to which the Inspector General has found substantial evidence of trafficking in persons, report as to—</text> <clause id="HD63576E0E85E4516A2EAE1EE1E7FFE9"><enum>(i)</enum><text>whether or not the case has been referred for prosecution; and</text></clause> <clause id="H6E918CBE88A948F2AD477DF91E583537"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>whether or not the case has been treated in accordance with section 106(g) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/7104">22 U.S.C. 7104</external-xref>) (relating to termination of certain grants, contracts and cooperative agreements).</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H04887D759E584D53B9344200F8EAE300"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Joint report</header><text>The Inspectors General described in subsection (a) may submit their reports jointly.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H16711448F00D446C87A005EC16BEFF00"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Congressional committees</header><text>The committees list in this paragraph are—</text> <subparagraph id="H42B41ED5E3714B48B28DDFA0BB94F3BD"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the <committee-name committee-id="SSAS00">Committee on Armed Services of the Senate</committee-name>;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HFF4ED3555FC0475389F75463F74111D9"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the <committee-name committee-id="SSFR00">Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate</committee-name>;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H0BB125A2D554431600D300D7DE2C4C5"><enum>(C)</enum><text>the <committee-name committee-id="">Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives</committee-name>; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HD1D30C76B6524807ABB054F4E802E0F9"><enum>(D)</enum><text>the <committee-name committee-id="">Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives</committee-name>.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section> <section id="H6618AFF7D9A74DA5B8D4001BC87560A1"><enum>233.</enum><header>Senior Policy Operating Group</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 206 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2005 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/14044d">42 U.S.C. 14044d</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>, as the department or agency determines appropriate,</quote>.</text></section> <section commented="no" id="H5B2B691906B14994B2C6B955F2A6EA40"><enum>234.</enum><header>Preventing United States travel by traffickers</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 212(a)(2)(H)(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1182">8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(2)(H)(i)</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>consular officer</quote> and inserting <quote>consular officer, the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Secretary of State,</quote>.</text></section> <section id="HAE8D6196000B42A7B63671F42DC8D313"><enum>235.</enum><header>Enhancing efforts to combat the trafficking of children</header> <subsection id="H613E5A0E679348109EC7C7DE662CC7D"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Combating child trafficking at the border and ports of entry of the United States</header> <paragraph id="HBC371FE81627410B9325278B447B71A3"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Policies and procedures</header><text>In order to enhance the efforts of the United States to prevent trafficking in persons, the Secretary of Homeland Security, in conjunction with the Secretary of State, the Attorney General, and the Secretary of Health and Human Services, shall develop policies and procedures to ensure that unaccompanied alien children in the United States are safely repatriated to their country of nationality or of last habitual residence.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H36CD41C3C408450387EF8C9CB0ABBBF8"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Special rules for children from contiguous countries</header> <subparagraph id="HE738FC439CF84A28862C91C67600CBA4"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Determinations</header><text>Any unaccompanied alien child who is a national or habitual resident of a country that is contiguous with the United States shall be treated in accordance with subparagraph (B), if the Secretary of Homeland Security determines, on a case-by-case basis, that—</text> <clause id="H1E9A7803FEA240B486B0422DD8B5800"><enum>(i)</enum><text>such child has not been a victim of a severe form of trafficking in persons, and there is no credible evidence that such child is at risk of being trafficked upon return to the child’s country of nationality or of last habitual residence;</text></clause> <clause id="H4071AC5B55B249F1851441FBE9589FBA"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>such child does not have a fear of returning to the child’s country of nationality or of last habitual residence owing to a credible fear of persecution; and</text></clause> <clause id="H467E016D5A9B4A6387DA158005B8008D"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>the child is able to make an independent decision to withdraw the child’s application for admission to the United States.</text></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H5144A32A65C143BE9C00D2354FAB807"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Return</header><text>An immigration officer who finds an unaccompanied alien child described in subparagraph (A) at a land border or port of entry of the United States and determines that such child is inadmissible under the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1101">8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq.</external-xref>) may—</text> <clause id="H80880AF02E1B47BFAE1B5F7C47D3ECBA"><enum>(i)</enum><text>permit such child to withdraw the child’s application for admission pursuant to section 235(a)(4) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1225">8 U.S.C. 1225(a)(4)</external-xref>); and</text></clause> <clause id="H2A148E1B8496498DAEAD421B6635CA81"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>return such child to the child’s country of nationality or country of last habitual residence.</text></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H1366FB735A444DDF9E4CA1D7BCC2234C"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Contiguous country agreements</header><text>The Secretary of State shall negotiate agreements between the United States and countries contiguous to the United States with respect to the repatriation of children. Such agreements shall be designed to protect children from severe forms of trafficking in persons, and shall, at a minimum, provide that—</text> <clause id="HC98350A7E306426D82ADF0885814AB6"><enum>(i)</enum><text>no child shall be returned to the child’s country of nationality or of last habitual residence unless returned to appropriate employees or officials, including child welfare officials where available, of the accepting country’s government;</text></clause> <clause id="H87DB1F44496945019626466161FCA1B4"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>no child shall be returned to the child’s country of nationality or of last habitual residence outside of reasonable business hours; and</text></clause> <clause id="H7460CA68C3104DC9B2FDCBD5CA5ED2A"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>border personnel of the countries that are parties to such agreements are trained in the terms of such agreements.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H89ACA8FD84E34C179DA9AED2F6088BF7"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Rule for other children</header><text>The custody of unaccompanied alien children not described in paragraph (2)(A) who are apprehended at the border of the United States or at a United States port of entry shall be treated in accordance with subsection (b).</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HC7B9DF7828FC4285B12F2809F88FA913"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Screening</header><text>Within 48 hours of the apprehension of a child who is believed to be described in paragraph (2)(A), but in any event prior to returning such child to the child’s country of nationality or of last habitual residence, the child shall be screened to determine whether the child meets the criteria listed in paragraph (2)(A). If the child does not meet such criteria, or if no determination can be made within 48 hours of apprehension, the child shall immediately be transferred to the Secretary of Health and Human Services and treated in accordance with subsection (b). Nothing in this paragraph may be construed to preclude an earlier transfer of the child.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H67E7E656A64144C4A9A8EEDE73C08CE"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Ensuring the safe repatriation of children</header> <subparagraph id="H9300F2680BE341D2BA8BE800384D4F8F"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Repatriation pilot program</header><text>To protect children from trafficking and exploitation, the Secretary of State shall create a pilot program, in conjunction with the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Secretary of Homeland Security, nongovernmental organizations, and other national and international agencies and experts, to develop and implement best practices to ensure the safe and sustainable repatriation and reintegration of unaccompanied alien children into their country of nationality or of last habitual residence, including placement with their families, legal guardians, or other sponsoring agencies.</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H0B3EFB0EA7AE4AB48919A346B8121FCC"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Assessment of country conditions</header><text>The Secretary of Homeland Security shall consult the Department of State’s Country Reports on Human Rights Practices and the Trafficking in Persons Report in assessing whether to repatriate an unaccompanied alien child to a particular country.</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H5B49568C2978423197ABD530CA4D9FAB"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Report on repatriation of unaccompanied alien children</header><text>Not later than 18 months after the date of the enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Health and Human Services, with assistance from the Secretary of Homeland Security, shall submit a report to the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate and the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives on efforts to improve repatriation programs for unaccompanied alien children. Such report shall include—</text> <clause id="HE3270C7770E34F3E8E1B77DD39AFB0BF"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the number of unaccompanied alien children ordered removed and the number of such children actually removed from the United States;</text></clause> <clause id="H25487807EF304C1DA69B5ED1F6938D90"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>a statement of the nationalities, ages, and gender of such children;</text></clause> <clause id="HC986679825014485909378E3FFD00394"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>a description of the policies and procedures used to effect the removal of such children from the United States and the steps taken to ensure that such children were safely and humanely repatriated to their country of nationality or of last habitual residence, including a description of the repatriation pilot program created pursuant to subparagraph (A);</text></clause> <clause id="H244664C48D8C418892DBFF59B23DE47C"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>a description of the type of immigration relief sought and denied to such children;</text></clause> <clause id="H937A147470A0498EA9F34C00FB82FCC"><enum>(v)</enum><text>any information gathered in assessments of country and local conditions pursuant to paragraph (2); and</text></clause> <clause id="HA9C1C72276D142CAA3FA158D337086C5"><enum>(vi)</enum><text>statistical information and other data on unaccompanied alien children as provided for in section 462(b)(1)(J) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/6/279">6 U.S.C. 279(b)(1)(J)</external-xref>).</text></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H8FE364B6BB5F4AC485898BBC6BBDEE01"><enum>(D)</enum><header>Placement in removal proceedings</header><text>Any unaccompanied alien child sought to be removed by the Department of Homeland Security, except for an unaccompanied alien child from a contiguous country subject to exceptions under subsection (a)(2), shall be—</text> <clause id="HF303EC178F7C403B916FB6B9E2EA2BDC"><enum>(i)</enum><text>placed in removal proceedings under section 240 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1229a">8 U.S.C. 1229a</external-xref>);</text></clause> <clause id="H0EB89AF429E14D1FA4F0169C40935312"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>eligible for relief under section 240B of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1229c">8 U.S.C. 1229c</external-xref>) at no cost to the child; and</text></clause> <clause id="HA1D50E9396F647F8A8CC1D9000D781CF"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>provided access to counsel in accordance with subsection (c)(5).</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H29E1BCA799784F1FAFC9241054B0BF1B"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Combating child trafficking and exploitation in the United States</header> <paragraph id="H13C53B3B223241F50055D1F7AD9D18D4"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Care and custody of unaccompanied alien children</header><text>Consistent with section 462 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/6/279">6 U.S.C. 279</external-xref>), and except as otherwise provided under subsection (a), the care and custody of all unaccompanied alien children, including responsibility for their detention, where appropriate, shall be the responsibility of the Secretary of Health and Human Services.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HF9B4DB2D412C4222B3FE38CA1C8007B"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Notification</header><text>Each department or agency of the Federal Government shall notify the Department of Health and Human services within 48 hours upon—</text> <subparagraph id="H6059FAFC5AD94C4EA33C67006C4739DA"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the apprehension or discovery of an unaccompanied alien child; or</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HCEC298EFF84148DB956C174325FEE894"><enum>(B)</enum><text>any claim or suspicion that an alien in the custody of such department or agency is under 18 years of age.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H0A27DAB258B445CDB3B43F4EA72394A0"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Transfers of unaccompanied alien children</header><text>Except in the case of exceptional circumstances, any department or agency of the Federal Government that has an unaccompanied alien child in custody shall transfer the custody of such child to the Secretary of Health and Human Services not later than 72 hours after determining that such child is an unaccompanied alien child.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H31B9DB1FFC874AAEBFAEE100E41836E2"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Age determinations</header><text>The Secretary of Health and Human Services, in consultation with the Secretary of Homeland Security, shall develop procedures to make a prompt determination of the age of an alien, which shall be used by the Secretary of Homeland Security and the Secretary of Health and Human Services for children in their respective custody. At a minimum, these procedures shall take into account multiple forms of evidence, including the non-exclusive use of radiographs, to determine the age of the unaccompanied alien.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HD962FAD2E38546B4B926BBC8B8E6F33"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Providing safe and secure placements for children</header> <paragraph id="H1C39A74198F74EEBB75566D88D2FA0B"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Policies and programs</header><text>The Secretary of Health and Human Services, Secretary of Homeland Security, Attorney General, and Secretary of State shall establish policies and programs to ensure that unaccompanied alien children in the United States are protected from traffickers and other persons seeking to victimize or otherwise engage such children in criminal, harmful, or exploitative activity, including policies and programs reflecting best practices in witness security programs.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HBB149EF51ACE43F1926C009F00AECBB8"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Safe and secure placements</header><text>Subject to section 462(b)(2) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/6/279">6 U.S.C. 279(b)(2)</external-xref>), an unaccompanied alien child in the custody of the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall be promptly placed in the least restrictive setting that is in the best interest of the child. In making such placements, the Secretary may consider danger to self, danger to the community, and risk of flight. Placement of child trafficking victims may include placement in an Unaccompanied Refugee Minor program, pursuant to section 412(d) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1522">8 U.S.C. 1522(d)</external-xref>), if a suitable family member is not available to provide care. A child shall not be placed in a secure facility absent a determination that the child poses a danger to self or others or has been charged with having committed a criminal offense. The placement of a child in a secure facility shall be reviewed, at a minimum, on a monthly basis, in accordance with procedures prescribed by the Secretary, to determine if such placement remains warranted.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HBED1A05671D44E55966017B29D2038AD"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Safety and suitability assessments</header> <subparagraph id="H70CC13861A0B49558057D90480F07C64"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Subject to the requirements of subparagraph (B), an unaccompanied alien child may not be placed with a person or entity unless the Secretary of Health and Human Services makes a determination that the proposed custodian is capable of providing for the child’s physical and mental well-being. Such determination shall, at a minimum, include verification of the custodian’s identity and relationship to the child, if any, as well as an independent finding that the individual has not engaged in any activity that would indicate a potential risk to the child.</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HDF875122A2974770ADD83B3F592927B"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Home studies</header><text>Before placing the child with an individual, the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall determine whether a home study is first necessary. A home study shall be conducted for a child who is a victim of a severe form of trafficking in persons, a special needs child with a disability (as defined in section 3 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/12102">42 U.S.C. 12102(2)</external-xref>)), a child who has been a victim of physical or sexual abuse under circumstances that indicate that the child’s health or welfare has been significantly harmed or threatened, or a child whose proposed sponsor clearly presents a risk of abuse, maltreatment, exploitation, or trafficking to the child based on all available objective evidence. The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall conduct follow-up services, during the pendency of removal proceedings, on children for whom a home study was conducted and is authorized to conduct follow-up services in cases involving children with mental health or other needs who could benefit from ongoing assistance from a social welfare agency.</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H6BE9BF6B62074EEAA91C5BFC4142E7CC"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Access to information</header><text>Not later than 2 weeks after receiving a request from the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall provide information necessary to conduct suitability assessments from appropriate Federal, State, and local law enforcement and immigration databases.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H79C0DED2C3E24CA9B773EAEEE42E4BFB"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Legal orientation presentations</header><text>The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall cooperate with the Executive Office for Immigration Review to ensure that custodians receive legal orientation presentations provided through the Legal Orientation Program administered by the Executive Office for Immigration Review. At a minimum, such presentations shall address the custodian’s responsibility to attempt to ensure the child’s appearance at all immigration proceedings and to protect the child from mistreatment, exploitation, and trafficking.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H5A81B5D69D7B45BF9B86A0AEFEF565E3"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Access to counsel</header><text>The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall ensure, to the greatest extent practicable and consistent with section 292 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1362">8 U.S.C. 1362</external-xref>), that all unaccompanied alien children who are or have been in the custody of the Secretary or the Secretary of Homeland Security, and who are not described in subsection (a)(2)(A), have counsel to represent them in legal proceedings or matters and protect them from mistreatment, exploitation, and trafficking. To the greatest extent practicable, the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall make every effort to utilize the services of pro bono counsel who agree to provide representation to such children without charge.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HD5869AE6179F44ECAC7E3B0057DFD826"><enum>(6)</enum><header>Child advocates</header><text>The Secretary of Health and Human Services is authorized to appoint independent child advocates for child trafficking victims and other vulnerable unaccompanied alien children. A child advocate shall be provided access to materials necessary to effectively advocate for the best interest of the child. The child advocate shall not be compelled to testify or provide evidence in any proceeding concerning any information or opinion received from the child in the course of serving as a child advocate. The child advocate shall be presumed to be acting in good faith and be immune from civil and criminal liability for lawful conduct of duties as described in this provision.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HC23967D88AD0469D8BFBF312291B5EF6"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Permanent protection for certain at-risk children</header> <paragraph id="H369D22B5C41B4D6DA02222AECF3DD635"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 101(a)(27)(J) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1101">8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(27)(J)</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <subparagraph id="H856B61FA77DF493CB081793B5B56C2A9"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in clause (i), by striking <quote>State and who has been deemed eligible by that court for long-term foster care due to abuse, neglect, or abandonment;</quote> and inserting <quote>State, or an individual or entity appointed by a State or juvenile court located in the United States, and whose reunification with 1 or both of the immigrant’s parents is not viable due to abuse, neglect, abandonment, or a similar basis found under State law;</quote>; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HAFDAA746F9B04C69956BAB7EC889E7AE"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in clause (iii)—</text> <clause id="H5B09213F7C1A42D88821BE00FA574170"><enum>(i)</enum><text>in the matter preceding subclause (I), by striking <quote>the Attorney General expressly consents to the dependency order serving as a precondition to the grant of special immigrant juvenile status;</quote> and inserting <quote>the Secretary of Homeland Security consents to the grant of special immigrant juvenile status,</quote>; and</text></clause> <clause id="H1F4176E01BA741E98DB3D767CAD9587"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>in subclause (I), by striking <quote>in the actual or constructive custody of the Attorney General unless the Attorney General specifically consents to such jurisdiction;</quote> and inserting <quote>in the custody of the Secretary of Health and Human Services unless the Secretary of Health and Human Services specifically consents to such jurisdiction;</quote>.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H60E6DDC94DF140C69B1E8F973BC2F8DD"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Expeditious adjudication</header><text>All applications for special immigrant status under section 101(a)(27)(J) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1101">8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(27)(J)</external-xref>) shall be adjudicated by the Secretary of Homeland Security not later than 180 days after the date on which the application is filed.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H6289D96A346440B693B26C977BE8B620"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Adjustment of status</header><text>Section 245(h)(2)(A) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1255">8 U.S.C. 1255(h)(2)(A)</external-xref>) is amended to read as follows:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4D551317245B41668E9F8C8FE46EB216" style="OLC"> <subparagraph id="H385495940672455994E29B32499D87C"><enum>(A)</enum><text>paragraphs (4), (5)(A), (6)(A), (6)(C), (6)(D), (7)(A), and (9)(B) of section 212(a) shall not apply; and</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph> <paragraph id="H949762D93746411195381CAE4B749FA7"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Eligibility for assistance</header> <subparagraph id="H368C08422D834EC0BA400307BD0043D1"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>A child who has been granted special immigrant status under section 101(a)(27)(J) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1101">8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(27)(J)</external-xref>) and who was either in the custody of the Secretary of Health and Human Services at the time a dependency order was granted for such child or who was receiving services pursuant to section 501(a) of the Refugee Education Assistance Act of 1980 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1522">8 U.S.C. 1522</external-xref> note) at the time such dependency order was granted, shall be eligible for placement and services under section 412(d) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1522">8 U.S.C. 1522(d)</external-xref>) until the earlier of—</text> <clause id="HF621DC030C4D42A8A300A406BEF0C508"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the date on which the child reaches the age designated in section 412(d)(2)(B) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1522">8 U.S.C. 1522(d)(2)(B)</external-xref>); or</text></clause> <clause id="HBC754815FC1147D500B2CBBFEEA217E"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the date on which the child is placed in a permanent adoptive home.</text></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HA15BA92D97BB4CD7A07D3BD9182DA727"><enum>(B)</enum><header>State reimbursement</header><text>Subject to the availability of appropriations, if State foster care funds are expended on behalf of a child who is not described in subparagraph (A) and has been granted special immigrant status under section 101(a)(27)(J) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1101">8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(27)(J)</external-xref>), the Federal Government shall reimburse the State in which the child resides for such expenditures by the State.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H80C5CCA0D1094B6DBEC9DCAEDCA59E68"><enum>(5)</enum><header>State courts acting in loco parentis</header><text>A department or agency of a State, or an individual or entity appointed by a State court or juvenile court located in the United States, acting in loco parentis, shall not be considered a legal guardian for purposes of this section or section 462 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/6/279">6 U.S.C. 279</external-xref>).</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HDD9BE94A79F5494B8CF8B6609508F8DB"><enum>(6)</enum><header>Transition rule</header><text>Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an alien described in section 101(a)(27)(J) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1101">8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(27)(J)</external-xref>), as amended by paragraph (1), may not be denied special immigrant status under such section after the date of the enactment of this Act based on age if the alien was a child on the date on which the alien applied for such status.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H7D63EDAB3B5E48258B00DB7BB524D8FC"><enum>(7)</enum><header>Access to asylum protections</header><text>Section 208 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1158">8 U.S.C. 1158</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <subparagraph id="H3CF82A7B13FF4802B4ADE799D52F743"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in subsection (a)(2), by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H51F674858775437480C82BA20DBA526" style="OLC"> <subparagraph id="H2624F05AB4CB4C3CB67B7358C7E227DE"><enum>(E)</enum><header>Applicability</header><text>Subparagraphs (A) and (B) shall not apply to an unaccompanied alien child (as defined in section 462(g) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/6/279">6 U.S.C. 279(g)</external-xref>)).</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H2EEB08625BFB467F87F0FA3CC86611E8"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in subsection (b)(3), by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H5D37FCE150584E128C0747F6276B4498" style="OLC"> <subparagraph id="H2A2CA1E621F249E48FE5FF53BE2D2368"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Initial jurisdiction</header><text>An asylum officer (as defined in section 235(b)(1)(E)) shall have initial jurisdiction over any asylum application filed by an unaccompanied alien child (as defined in section 462(g) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/6/279">6 U.S.C. 279(g)</external-xref>)), regardless of whether filed in accordance with this section or section 235(b).</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H1BD582126A0C4D698C425408A3BA369B"><enum>(8)</enum><header>Specialized needs of unaccompanied alien children</header><text>Applications for asylum and other forms of relief from removal in which an unaccompanied alien child is the principal applicant shall be governed by regulations which take into account the specialized needs of unaccompanied alien children and which address both procedural and substantive aspects of handling unaccompanied alien children’s cases.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H9692712266DB4BA68200142F9BCC3BB3"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Training</header><text>The Secretary of State, the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, and the Attorney General shall provide specialized training to all Federal personnel, and upon request, state and local personnel, who have substantive contact with unaccompanied alien children. Such personnel shall be trained to work with unaccompanied alien children, including identifying children who are victims of severe forms of trafficking in persons, and children for whom asylum or special immigrant relief may be appropriate, including children described in subsection (a)(2).</text></subsection> <subsection id="H9A3B0C2EE8E44EBD8B8BDE5EC61DA3AE"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Amendments to the Homeland Security Act of 2002</header> <paragraph id="H2F1C051DDF81478EA1226300D900FDDF"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Additional responsibilities</header><text>Section 462(b)(1)(L) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/6/279">6 U.S.C. 279(b)(1)(L)</external-xref>) is amended by striking the period at the end and inserting <quote>, including regular follow-up visits to such facilities, placements, and other entities, to assess the continued suitability of such placements.</quote>.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H714B8EE3856D4D3EA65E9C16BFC301C9"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Technical corrections</header><text>Section 462(b) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/6/279">6 U.S.C. 279(b)</external-xref>) is further amended—</text> <subparagraph id="H7DAAEBFF0ABC4106A6A8F1421055F9FD"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph (3), by striking <quote>paragraph (1)(G),</quote> and inserting <quote>paragraph (1),</quote>; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HA578C4241EAE420B8C47C825ACCDE8DB"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB8DF3A2FF05D4E8C8180DC006F54D5AA" style="OLC"> <paragraph id="HF0BBB88AD7BC4B108DA701A9A86B8908"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Rule of construction</header><text>Nothing in paragraph (2)(B) may be construed to require that a bond be posted for an unaccompanied alien child who is released to a qualified sponsor.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H026C74209ED8410C95802BC195008B6C"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Definition of unaccompanied alien child</header><text>For purposes of this section, the term <term>unaccompanied alien child</term> has the meaning given such term in section 462(g) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/6/279">6 U.S.C. 279(g)</external-xref>).</text></subsection> <subsection id="H757DAE2DB46A4B6E82C98D20EC7BD0B4"><enum>(h)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>This section—</text> <paragraph id="HD4CCF72923AD4E6B87C9E300063F17B"><enum>(1)</enum><text>shall take effect on the date that is 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H96478F2B128640E594C5423776D1928E"><enum>(2)</enum><text>shall also apply to all aliens in the United States in pending proceedings before the Department of Homeland Security or the Executive Office for Immigration Review, or related administrative or Federal appeals, on the date of the enactment of this Act.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H03E5180E52E04361B40012345E2F28D"><enum>(i)</enum><header>Grants and contracts</header><text>The Secretary of Health and Human Services may award grants to, and enter into contracts with, voluntary agencies to carry out this section and section 462 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/6/279">6 U.S.C. 279</external-xref>).</text></subsection></section> <section id="HFCDFA873DF654A3F88F94CD978FE8D5"><enum>236.</enum><header>Restriction of passports for sex tourism</header> <subsection id="HE2BBB4BCBCD4468A91FF74C0E227A3D"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Following any conviction of an individual for a violation of <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/18/2423">section 2423</external-xref> of title 18, United States Code, the Attorney General shall notify in a timely manner—</text> <paragraph id="HD6B52F8339BC472D92721C352500F1C9"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the Secretary of State for appropriate action under subsection (b); and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H334FF2E65A074E919E805005DE286477"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the Secretary of Homeland Security for appropriate action under the Immigration and Nationality Act. </text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HEA23F67D41B54FF0822B945692DD7CA0"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Authority to restrict passport</header> <paragraph id="HA6ABFC99A346404EA5A6D24233B77942"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Ineligibility for passport</header> <subparagraph id="H4DE31A99B38D43A1A2679C209426C97D"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Secretary of State shall not issue a passport or passport card to an individual who is convicted of a violation of <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/18/2423">section 2423</external-xref> of title 18, United States Code, during the covered period if the individual used a passport or passport card or otherwise crossed an international border in committing the offense.</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H261DBE470ED14F2B82CB02A71CB864BA"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Passport revocation</header><text>The Secretary of State shall revoke a passport or passport card previously issued to an individual described in subparagraph (A).</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H6FE0CB759E924B71ADBFBB2872D0A958"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Exceptions</header> <subparagraph id="H6E35DD69677542028931EC7963749219"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Emergency and humanitarian situations</header><text>Notwithstanding paragraph (1), the Secretary of State may issue a passport or passport card, in emergency circumstances or for humanitarian reasons, to an individual described in paragraph (1)(A).</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HFD10BF1A88744A6DBE188CCCF000AD22"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Limitation for return to united states</header><text>Notwithstanding paragraph (1), the Secretary of State may, prior to revocation, limit a previously issued passport or passport card only for return travel to the United States, or may issue a limited passport or passport card that only permits return travel to the United States. </text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="HA1F3C2BDD5D840BB90C5B79AD81BCFE"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>In this subsection—</text> <subparagraph id="HFFD322BDA9314CBA88702127C0D1E3D"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the term <quote>covered period</quote> means the period beginning on the date on which an individual is convicted of a violation of <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/18/2423">section 2423</external-xref> of title 18, United States Code, and ending on the later of—</text> <clause id="HEA90D9C758954B9FBDD42328E054DA54"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the date on which the individual is released from a sentence of imprisonment relating to the offense; and</text></clause> <clause id="HD43949F5EC6748B8ACFB25872CB6BD7"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the end of a period of parole or other supervised release of the covered individual relating to the offense; and</text></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H021CB8F8C1074D5DB4336CA47FEB40E9"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the term <quote>imprisonment</quote> means being confined in or otherwise restricted to a jail, prison, half-way house, treatment facility, or another institution, on a full or part-time basis, pursuant to the sentence imposed as the result of a criminal conviction.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section> <section id="HE05915444AA94ACE9200B964416EF2A4"><enum>237.</enum><header>Additional reporting on crime</header> <subsection id="HAB3D7C377F7849E3A0A98B358B2B7FC9"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Trafficking offense classification</header><text>The Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation shall—</text> <paragraph id="H9F567421CCA64FEBB7816646BA942B8"><enum>(1)</enum><text>classify the offense of human trafficking as a Part I crime in the Uniform Crime Reports;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HF6DBB9C805E24064861969BC4F6655E"><enum>(2)</enum><text>to the extent feasible, establish subcategories for State sex crimes that involve—</text> <subparagraph id="H9857725BF2D1441D9B73D8E0C7E38D9"><enum>(A)</enum><text>a person who is younger than 18 years of age;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H7AA5B92B299C4C1499C9122BFD93504"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the use of force, fraud or coercion; or</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HA86D379CFB6C44289CE042EABDA9C063"><enum>(C)</enum><text>neither of the elements described in subparagraphs (A) and (B); and</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H05C218ABAB5441CDB120DBF443F05CCB"><enum>(3)</enum><text>classify the offense of human trafficking as a Group A offense for purpose of the National Incident-Based Reporting System.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H5D7D4EFB5E1749C0B214E3B0E98B3665"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Additional information</header><text>The Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation shall revise the Uniform Crime Reporting System and the National Incident-Based Reporting System to distinguish between reports of—</text> <paragraph id="HDAA40C2094C54358B378A08DA025F2E6"><enum>(1)</enum><text>incidents of assisting or promoting prostitution, which shall include crimes committed by persons who—</text> <subparagraph id="HC45D0CBBCB7140F29D8B426C6966FC7"><enum>(A)</enum><text>do not directly engage in commercial sex acts; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H8768AF9920774D508D6B3B5F689213B5"><enum>(B)</enum><text>direct, manage, or profit from such acts, such as State pimping and pandering crimes;</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H41DB674742BE491AADDA803888B400B4"><enum>(2)</enum><text>incidents of purchasing prostitution, which shall include crimes committed by persons who purchase or attempt to purchase or trade anything of value for commercial sex acts; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HAB33CF766008447BBA10EE516D6024F5"><enum>(3)</enum><text>incidents of prostitution, which shall include crimes committed by persons providing or attempting to provide commercial sex acts.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HF2B2E9CDCD7F4B9D82F050A34D458E20"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Reports and studies</header> <paragraph id="HC43C64DCBD9342A8BE5FB58CD48B7127"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Reports</header><text>Not later than February 1, 2010, the Attorney General shall submit to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate reports on the following:</text> <subparagraph id="HC87D68F439D541F7A84BB9BFC2D854E4"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Activities or actions, in fiscal years 2001 through 2009, by Federal departments and agencies to enforce the offenses set forth in <external-xref legal-doc="usc-chapter" parsable-cite="usc-chapter/18/117">chapter 117</external-xref> of title 18, United States Code, including information regarding the number of prosecutions, the number of convictions, an identification of multiple-defendant cases and the results thereof, and, for fiscal years 2008 and 2009, the number of prosecutions, the number of convictions, and an identification of multiple-defendant case and the results thereof, the use of expanded statutes of limitation and other tools to prosecute crimes against children who reached the age of eighteen years since the time the crime was committed. </text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H28BF7D1966E64581975EF9EC689260C6"><enum>(B)</enum><text>The interaction, in Federal human trafficking prosecutions in fiscal years 2001 through 2010, of Federal restitution provisions with those provisions of law allowing restoration and remission of criminally and civilly forfeited property, including the distribution of proceeds among multiple victims. </text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HFADE2DDC02344EF99137ECDBAA0097CA"><enum>(C)</enum><text>Activities or actions, in fiscal years 2001 through 2010, to enforce the offenses set forth in chapters 95 and 96 of title 18, United States Code, in cases involving human trafficking, sex trafficking, or prostitution offenses. </text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H60E3A35E734546D6BD850071E513FD5"><enum>(D)</enum><text>Activities or actions, in fiscal years 2008 and 2009, by Federal departments and agencies to enforce the offenses set forth in the Act of August 15, 1935 (49 Stat. 651; D.C. Code 22–2701 et seq.) (relating to prostitution and pandering), including information regarding the number of prosecutions, the number of convictions, and an identification of multiple-defendant cases and the results thereof. </text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H15A3DD922E80458D9C58EB9777EE09C4"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Studies</header><text>Subject to availability of appropriations, the head of the National Institute of Justice shall conduct—</text> <subparagraph id="HDA3031D48B6843EFA7628051EFFCD08B"><enum>(A)</enum><text>a comprehensive study to examine the use of Internet-based businesses and services by criminal actors in the sex industry, and to disseminate best practices for investigation and prosecution of trafficking and prostitution offenses involving the Internet; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H8C40EA0DC47D4CEFB96CD2D7488B355"><enum>(B)</enum><text>a comprehensive study to examine the application of State human trafficking statutes, including such statutes based on the model law developed by the Department of Justice, cases prosecuted thereunder, and the impact, if any, on enforcement of other State criminal statutes.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="HD247B901DFDE4151B0D6A21F858DE800"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Studies previously required by law</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Attorney General shall report to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate on the status of the studies required by paragraph (B)(i) and (ii) of section 201(a)(1) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2005 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/14044">42 U.S.C. 14044(a)(1)</external-xref>) and indicate the projected date when such studies will be completed.</text></paragraph></subsection></section> <section id="H2CB88E8F5F6648008215F017EF00FC69" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>238. </enum><header>Processing of certain visas</header> <subsection id="H61EAD8ED7FD4485DB1B8EF62B5E9FBD3"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Report</header><text>Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall submit to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate a report on the operations of the specially-trained Violence Against Women Act Unit at the Citizenship and Immigration Service’s Vermont Service Center. </text></subsection> <subsection id="H7849D83CD8B448EC81D8EA70B7FBF1BA"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Elements</header><text>The report required by subsection (a) shall include the following elements: </text> <paragraph id="H80D24EC507284AECA7295C9D00757044"><enum>(1)</enum><text>Detailed information about the funds expended to support the work of the Violence Against Women Act Unit at the Vermont Service Center. </text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HBCB086624E734502A948ED2E9F11DD44"><enum>(2)</enum><text>A description of training for adjudicators, victim witness liaison officers, managers, and others working in the Violence Against Women Act Unit, including general training and training on confidentiality issues. </text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HCA743B14CEC2490CBCD1709BD91813B6"><enum>(3)</enum><text>Measures taken to ensure the retention of specially-trained staff within the Violence Against Women Act Unit. </text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H3729B9299E6D470D95B6FFCFDE5DCFB"><enum>(4)</enum><text>Measures taken to ensure the creation and retention of a core of supervisory staff within the Violence Against Women Act Unit and the Vermont Service Center with responsibility over resource allocation, policy, program development, training and other substantive or operational issues affecting the Unit, who have historical knowledge and experience with the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, the Violence Against Women Act of 1994, Violence Against Women Act of 1994 confidentiality, and the specialized policies and procedures of the Department of Homeland Security and its predecessor agencies in such cases. </text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H5A7F91EA5D4F46ACBD9F9CA58B61D264"><enum>(5)</enum><text>Measures taken to ensure routine consultation between the Violence Against Women Act Unit, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Headquarters, and the Office of Policy and Strategy during the development of any Department of Homeland Security regulations or policies that impact Violence Against Women Act of 1994 confidentiality-protected victims and their derivative family members.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HE2EC3820993E490100C7BE143D0CC4B"><enum>(6)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Information on any circumstances in which victim-based immigration applications have been adjudicated by entities other than the Violence Against Women Act Unit at the Vermont Service Center, including reasons for such action and what steps, if any, were taken to ensure that such applications were handled by trained personnel and what steps were taken to comply with the confidentiality provisions of the Violence Against Women Act of 1994. </text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H11A1789FA4BE49CD8CDE99C1434DF4B8"><enum>(7)</enum><text>Information on the time in which it takes to adjudicate victim-based immigration applications, including the issuance of visas, work authorization and deferred action in a timely manner consistent with the safe and competent processing of such applications, and steps taken to improve in this area.</text></paragraph></subsection></section> <section id="H5FCDD497332D47239241C0EFFC07FEF4"><enum>239.</enum><header>Temporary increase in fee for certain consular services</header> <subsection id="H2DB91636ED4B4852A39889706920C842"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Increase in Fee</header><text>Notwithstanding any other provision of law, not later than October 1, 2009, the Secretary of State shall increase by $1 the fee or surcharge assessed under section 140(a) of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995 (<external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/103/236">Public Law 103–236</external-xref>; <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1351">8 U.S.C. 1351</external-xref> note) for processing machine-readable nonimmigrant visas and machine-readable combined border crossing identification cards and nonimmigrant visas.</text></subsection> <subsection id="H816343F8BA244B8AA98E11653878348D"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Deposit of Amounts</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding section 140(a)(2) of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995 (<external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/103/236">Public Law 103–236</external-xref>; <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1351">8 U.S.C. 1351</external-xref> note), the additional amount collected pursuant the fee increase under subsection (a) shall be deposited in the Treasury.</text></subsection> <subsection id="H991B1E820B154D169352D4FC919C08BC"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Duration of Increase</header><text>The fee increase authorized under subsection (a) shall terminate on the date that is 3 years after the first date on which such increased fee is collected.</text></subsection></section></subtitle> <enum>III</enum><header>Authorizations of appropriations</header> <section id="H1888CFC6B083411DBCD1008F2022CEF1"><enum>301.</enum><header>Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 113 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, as amended by section 213(a)(2), is amended—</text> <paragraph id="H401066FB2320468D0047595DFCA3E3F"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (a)—</text> <subparagraph id="H7E45505971D84A8ABBE06C00A9CDD7BE"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in the first sentence—</text> <clause id="H63AFF630793842B3AC558EC5D7AA0028"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by striking <quote>section 104, and</quote>; and</text></clause> <clause id="HD2D6C579A9584C0585087C80613D4635"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by striking <quote>$1,500,000</quote> and all that follows through <quote>$5,500,000 for each of the fiscal years 2006 and 2007</quote> and inserting <quote>$5,500,000 for each of the fiscal years 2008 through 2011</quote>; and</text></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HB1531606A8C64B48AF95358963EA05E9"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in the second sentence—</text> <clause id="H722323C09A64444190AB09194B6576F2"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by striking <quote>for official reception and representation expenses $3,000</quote> and inserting <quote>$1,500,000 for additional personnel for each of the fiscal years 2008 through 2011, and $3,000 for official reception and representation expenses</quote>; and</text></clause> <clause id="H6B855444B22D42C18900D1D72788734F"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by striking <quote>2006 and 2007</quote> and inserting <quote>2008 through 2011</quote>;</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H962A64B6F50245C790F996A6CB9F31E"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (b)(1), by striking <quote>$5,000,000</quote> and all that follows and inserting <quote>$12,500,000 for each of the fiscal years 2008 through 2011</quote>;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H02295289574449EC89015D2428DDC147"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in subsection (c)—</text> <subparagraph id="H7B02E96F51C643A5A83C2117C74DAF02"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph (1)—</text> <clause id="HC92E1CBB96FD4617B000CA332600B334"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by striking <quote>2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007</quote> each place it appears and inserting <quote>2008 through 2011</quote>; and</text></clause> <clause id="H769734D62B2C499696615E8CD155006C"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>in subparagraph (B), by adding at the end the following: <quote>To carry out the purposes of section 107(a)(1)(F), there are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of State $1,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2008 through 2011.</quote>;</text></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HB0F2B7A3B1A648AE8974C136D771EDD"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking paragraph (2);</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HD07D8538DA64426E98F38300AD5C3296"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by redesignating paragraph (3) as paragraph (2); and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HBBEB4A8356EA4FE49FE3707B64682CC0"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (2), as redesignated—</text> <clause id="H5619147BF0FC4096A9B503F00075C65"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>section 104</quote> and inserting <quote>sections 116(f) and 502B(h) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/2151n">22 U.S.C. 2151n(f)</external-xref> and 2304(h))</quote>; and</text></clause> <clause id="HA5C8998A48A0477B8E88EFA87EF0FDD"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by striking <quote>, including the preparation</quote> and all that follows and inserting a period;</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="HEE4904466A1F48E48C6F1017D7016BF9"><enum>(4)</enum><text>in subsection (d)—</text> <subparagraph id="H5CCC190C6F8044DBA553847B186771BF"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the first sentence, by striking <quote>$5,000,000</quote> and all that follows through <quote>2007</quote> and inserting <quote>$10,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2008 through 2011</quote>; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H281EEFC28C494AD587B82929A8F90313"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the second sentence, by striking <quote>2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007</quote> and inserting <quote>2008 through 2011</quote>;</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H392BADF509A24FACA91D27C3F8A680A8"><enum>(5)</enum><text>in subsection (e)—</text> <subparagraph id="HB20A2D591759459591D74FFAF773651F"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (1), by striking <quote>$5,000,000</quote> and all that follows and inserting <quote>$15,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2008 through 2011.</quote>;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H367C44DEFD6447098F25201B78AA8D8F"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (2)—</text> <clause id="H88A23146E33C41489E7BAD334302F636"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by striking <quote>section 109</quote> and inserting <quote>section 134 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/2152d">22 U.S.C. 2152d</external-xref>)</quote>; and</text></clause> <clause id="H57893823494F4653BDF700E8C234F38C"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>$5,000,000</quote> and all that follows and inserting <quote>$15,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2008 through 2011.</quote>; and</text></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H96B89817F8EB42328F6E3C64FE704BCB"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in paragraph (3), by striking <quote>$300,000</quote> and all that follows and inserting <quote>$2,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2008 through 2011.</quote>;</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H37DF619D8E33417B8BCF8D00E28F0096"><enum>(6)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (f), by striking <quote>$5,000,000</quote> and all that follows and inserting <quote>$10,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2008 through 2011.</quote>;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HB1C1247570CA4D7BBD5F2760CA42D753"><enum>(7)</enum><text>in subsection (h), by striking <quote>fiscal year 2006</quote> and inserting <quote>each of the fiscal years 2008 through 2011</quote>; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H87DA4BCFCD794B738FFC31B0E3100467"><enum>(8)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (i), by striking <quote>2006 and 2007</quote> and inserting <quote>2008 through 2011</quote>.</text></paragraph></section> <section id="H3CABAC65944A4656A8A816604E7F00DA"><enum>302.</enum><header>Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2005</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2005 (<external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/109/164">Public Law 109–164</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="H85DFFF7B23964D8A9CFBD0F90056C6F2"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in section 102(b)(7), by striking <quote>2006 and 2007</quote> and inserting <quote>2008 through 2011</quote>;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H7E4B1A6B8ED844548900EFCCE8231691"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in section 201(c)—</text> <subparagraph id="HA9AB404B30674D008232603E00002034"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (1), by striking <quote>$2,500,000 for each of the fiscal years 2006 and 2007</quote> each place it appears and inserting <quote>$1,500,000 for each of the fiscal years 2008 through 2011</quote>; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H437C83DF0AFD4AD5976194B8EECA89D9"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (2), by striking <quote>2006 and 2007</quote> and inserting <quote>2008 through 2011</quote>;</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H5126776E3C53476DAB11F9B84BB96565"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in section 202(d), by striking <quote>$10,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2006 and 2007</quote> and inserting <quote>$8,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2008 through 2011</quote>;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H0A96A16B94AA4C5EAA2323EB1C373CE"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in section 203(g), by striking <quote>2006 and 2007</quote> and inserting <quote>2008 through 2011</quote>; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H96BD74E15CFB436B9BDCE9EBBE2C0FA"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in section 204(d), by striking <quote>$25,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2006 and 2007</quote> and inserting <quote>$20,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2008 through 2011</quote>.</text></paragraph></section> <section id="H6D000511289F44AC928306AF4AC5E64"><enum>303.</enum><header>Rule of construction</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The amendments made by sections 301 and 302 may not be construed to affect the availability of funds appropriated pursuant to the authorizations of appropriations under the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (division A of <external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/106/386">Public Law 106–386</external-xref>; <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/7101">22 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.</external-xref>) and the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2005 (<external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/109/164">Public Law 109–164</external-xref>) before the date of the enactment of this Act.</text></section> <section commented="no" id="H2CA953AB74D648AE96487FC910D3BEC9"><enum>304.</enum><header>Technical amendments</header> <subsection commented="no" id="H56741C33856342FA9FE4B545C52C43AC"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000</header><text>Sections 103(1) and 105(d)(7) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/7102">22 U.S.C. 7102(1)</external-xref> and 7103(d)(7)) are each amended by striking <quote>Committee on International Relations</quote> each place it appears and inserting <quote>Committee on Foreign Affairs</quote>.</text></subsection> <subsection commented="no" id="H1040F967743A49DF93EF61D9E7B41B8"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2005</header><text>Section 102(b)(6) and subsections (c)(2)(B)(i) and (e)(2) of section 104 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2005 (<external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/109/164">Public Law 109–164</external-xref>) are amended by striking <quote>Committee on International Relations</quote> each place it appears and inserting <quote>Committee on Foreign Affairs</quote>.</text></subsection></section> <enum>IV</enum><header>Child Soldiers Prevention</header> <section id="H17D0407A35184B169B2204E2A4FDF592"><enum>401.</enum><header>Short title</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">This title may be cited as the <quote><short-title>Child Soldiers Prevention Act of 2008</short-title></quote>.</text></section> <section id="H19EAC4CD963F4E82A916044CAFE60065"><enum>402.</enum><header>Definitions</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">In this title:</text> <paragraph id="H83F5D36690B24D0EA8849CBC23AD2116"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Appropriate congressional committees</header><text>The term <term>appropriate congressional committees</term> means—</text> <subparagraph id="H6A1401912FA24C639FA8C3763762E1C4"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the <committee-name committee-id="SSFR00">Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate</committee-name>;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H09F643A269E6469FBB685781821C7317"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the <committee-name committee-id="SSAP00">Committee on Appropriations of the Senate</committee-name>;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HD2365C1203C249DBB099BAA312549D82"><enum>(C)</enum><text>the <committee-name committee-id="">Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives</committee-name>; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H5A6DEEC808704F0FB80104266BDA7872"><enum>(D)</enum><text>the <committee-name committee-id="">Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives</committee-name>.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="HA901A4CCF5EC44C6863379ED4653ABBE"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Child soldier</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Consistent with the provisions of the Optional Protocol to the Convention of the Rights of the Child, the term <term>child soldier</term>—</text> <subparagraph id="H1303C893FB0749DC91E78C39FCB18BDA"><enum>(A)</enum><text>means—</text> <clause id="H91A43D2D6E73471BBC2148B6DE39F282"><enum>(i)</enum><text>any person under 18 years of age who takes a direct part in hostilities as a member of governmental armed forces;</text></clause> <clause id="HE920E4F5DCC44C058EC6B0F0B9E098E0"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>any person under 18 years of age who has been compulsorily recruited into governmental armed forces;</text></clause> <clause id="HA7912FC9339A42DD8E69006C00ABE363"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>any person under 15 years of age who has been voluntarily recruited into governmental armed forces; or</text></clause> <clause id="H8B81142AA2214A0200DB6F1095F81F97"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>any person under 18 years of age who has been recruited or used in hostilities by armed forces distinct from the armed forces of a state; and</text></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HE12DF28408384AD2A1DE307566676318"><enum>(B)</enum><text>includes any person described in clauses (ii), (iii), or (iv) of subparagraph (A) who is serving in any capacity, including in a support role such as a cook, porter, messenger, medic, guard, or sex slave.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></section> <section id="H269E805F235343FFB786F93341613EEA"><enum>403.</enum><header>Sense of Congress</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">It is the sense of Congress that—</text> <paragraph id="H9CEA4ACD4CDF45279BCD6028121F80B8"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the United States Government should condemn the conscription, forced recruitment, or use of children by governments, paramilitaries, or other organizations;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H46ABD0D70E4741B8A2F760A6AD007931"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the United States Government should support and, to the extent practicable, lead efforts to establish and uphold international standards designed to end the abuse of human rights described in paragraph (1);</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H0DF8B27383AE401B81BBC9444CE81B51"><enum>(3)</enum><text>the United States Government should expand ongoing services to rehabilitate recovered child soldiers and to reintegrate such children back into their respective communities by—</text> <subparagraph id="H66ECCF2535194A4994EA5FD8DCB9B2BC"><enum>(A)</enum><text>offering ongoing psychological services to help such children—</text> <clause id="H22064CB5EC4E44668477CFCB53E0D423"><enum>(i)</enum><text>to recover from the trauma suffered during their forced military involvement;</text></clause> <clause id="H16C32C243ADD4762812721B2925F92D"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>to relearn how to interact with others in nonviolent ways so that such children are no longer a danger to their respective communities; and</text></clause> <clause id="H5394B0E362CD4290A48335F4A67F76ED"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>by taking into consideration the needs of girl soldiers, who may be at risk of exclusion from disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration programs;</text></clause></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H1A77D26FB0ED4E6AB5B3F84C72EAF957"><enum>(B)</enum><text>facilitating reconciliation with such communities through negotiations with traditional leaders and elders to enable recovered abductees to resume normal lives in such communities; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="HEAA06C9DB6634AB19CFA1FC35F79F0F0"><enum>(C)</enum><text>providing educational and vocational assistance;</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="HD78E9F4F91B04D4BB1C191F1D1FD9997"><enum>(4)</enum><text>the United States should work with the international community, including, as appropriate, third country governments, nongovernmental organizations, faith-based organizations, United Nations agencies, local governments, labor unions, and private enterprises—</text> <subparagraph id="H39440DEAD87B4501008889AACC235C3B"><enum>(A)</enum><text>to bring to justice rebel and paramilitary forces that kidnap children for use as child soldiers;</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H39447129B8B343CFB4184F5DFD588E3F"><enum>(B)</enum><text>to recover those children who have been abducted; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H7C8515C56E3E429C9CF8F55860A73D98"><enum>(C)</enum><text>to assist such children to be rehabilitated and reintegrated into their respective communities;</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="HFD11CD2796194F2EB6606E6500C41DD"><enum>(5)</enum><text>the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Labor, and the Secretary of Defense should coordinate programs to achieve the goals described in paragraph (3);</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HEC1CFE06556D4D518C008CF01128F9A3"><enum>(6)</enum><text>United States diplomatic missions in countries in which the use of child soldiers is an issue, whether or not such use is supported or sanctioned by the governments of such countries, should include in their mission program plans a strategy to achieve the goals described in paragraph (3);</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HA418CC7665E34614837758D16BCB4993"><enum>(7)</enum><text>United States diplomatic missions in countries in which governments use or tolerate child soldiers should develop strategies, as part of annual program planning—</text> <subparagraph id="HDBB81E82F23E444EBBBF9C990066BD2"><enum>(A)</enum><text>to promote efforts to end such abuse of human rights; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H090DFAB624CB407F87CB1B266B3BA7F"><enum>(B)</enum><text>to identify and integrate global best practices, as available, into such strategies to avoid duplication of effort; and</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="HA22795E97580419B98D77BD38216CCB7"><enum>(8)</enum><text>in allocating or recommending the allocation of funds or recommending candidates for programs and grants funded by the United States Government, United States diplomatic missions should give serious consideration to those programs and candidates that are expected to promote the end to the abuse of human rights described in this section.</text></paragraph></section> <section id="H320CA92F65DB4B81BFBA42691202DDE"><enum>404.</enum><header>Prohibition</header> <subsection id="H112E7B091D2A4EA792F8A4001B252929"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Subject to subsections (b), (c), and (d), the authorities contained in section 516 or 541 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2321j or 2347) or section 23 of the Arms Export Control Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/2763">22 U.S.C. 2763</external-xref>) may not be used to provide assistance to, and no licenses for direct commercial sales of military equipment may be issued to, the government of a country that is clearly identified, pursuant to subsection (b), for the most recent year preceding the fiscal year in which the authorities or license would have been used or issued in the absence of a violation of this title, as having governmental armed forces or government-supported armed groups, including paramilitaries, militias, or civil defense forces, that recruit and use child soldiers. </text></subsection> <subsection id="H45DF3870F90C49A2BD0309795EB55512"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Identification and notification to countries in violation of standards</header> <paragraph id="HDEA55A2587FC4CA4808ED24B74C28991"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Publication of list of foreign governments</header><text>The Secretary of State shall include a list of the foreign governments that have violated the standards under this title and are subject to the prohibition in subsection (a) in the report required under section 110(b) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/7107">22 U.S.C. 7107(b)</external-xref>).</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HF3E37E6097CC4BFCAB8C92A90087CB51"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Notification of foreign countries</header><text>The Secretary of State shall formally notify any government identified pursuant to subsection (a).</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H09051FC9E67D452DA8EE02E15268CCB"><enum>(c)</enum><header>National Interest Waiver</header> <paragraph id="HD8AB83AD2F3D474392D8B02694DA0E2"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Waiver</header><text>The President may waive the application to a country of the prohibition in subsection (a) if the President determines that such waiver is in the national interest of the United States.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H474C92320F524D0E86A04C8DC082475"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Publication and notification</header><text>Not later than 45 days after each waiver is granted under paragraph (1), the President shall notify the appropriate congressional committees of the waiver and the justification for granting such waiver.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HC16ABCC599504B3DBEC41F008845DD60"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Reinstatement of Assistance</header><text>The President may provide to a country assistance otherwise prohibited under subsection (a) upon certifying to the appropriate congressional committees that the government of such country—</text> <paragraph id="HBF66EB8CA0DB4EF2934D98008190522E"><enum>(1)</enum><text>has implemented measures that include an action plan and actual steps to come into compliance with the standards outlined in section 404(b); and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H53FE2DAA92404B3B887508BE75C0D95B"><enum>(2)</enum><text>has implemented policies and mechanisms to prohibit and prevent future government or government-supported use of child soldiers and to ensure that no children are recruited, conscripted, or otherwise compelled to serve as child soldiers.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HED740F6DF47F4ACFB386D9ADFDE6AB11"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Exception for Programs Directly Related To Addressing the Problem of Child Soldiers or Professionalization of the Military</header> <paragraph id="H200631C6A4D2403A9889A5926B0BF4E"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The President may provide assistance to a country for international military education, training, and nonlethal supplies (as defined in <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/10/2557">section 2557(d)(1)(B)</external-xref> of title 10, United States Code) otherwise prohibited under subsection (a) upon certifying to the appropriate congressional committees that—</text> <subparagraph id="HF11E7A6CB5164178AC1BF197517BBAE"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the government of such country is taking reasonable steps to implement effective measures to demobilize child soldiers in its forces or in government-supported paramilitaries and is taking reasonable steps within the context of its national resources to provide demobilization, rehabilitation, and reintegration assistance to those former child soldiers; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H9E87B4567549441E9C671CB000FA6FFD"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the assistance provided by the United States Government to the government of such country will go to programs that will directly support professionalization of the military.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="H1387E695AEB5412FA99BEB3D5974CCB5"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Limitation</header><text>The exception under paragraph (1) may not remain in effect for a country for more than 5 years.</text></paragraph></subsection></section> <section id="H7912F9E009544F18001E2E41568D9021"><enum>405.</enum><header>Reports</header> <subsection id="H6C75DEF3F4784353A26DF37000ACE6C1"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Investigation of allegations regarding child soldiers</header><text>United States missions abroad shall thoroughly investigate reports of the use of child soldiers.</text></subsection> <subsection id="HC476F91E528B4651A6291C2724DF56D1"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Information for Annual Human Rights Reports</header><text>In preparing those portions of the annual Human Rights Report that relate to child soldiers under sections 116 and 502B of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/2151n">22 U.S.C. 2151n(f)</external-xref> and 2304(h)), the Secretary of State shall ensure that such reports include a description of the use of child soldiers in each foreign country, including—</text> <paragraph id="H91B804E25B11477FB4F5D9A319039B89"><enum>(1)</enum><text>trends toward improvement in such country of the status of child soldiers or the continued or increased tolerance of such practices; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H3440FC2CC0E640EF82C714EDAB5B7C00"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the role of the government of such country in engaging in or tolerating the use of child soldiers.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="HDDB499C95CC94932AD2537259078F033"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Annual report to Congress</header><text>If, during any of the 5 years following the date of the enactment of this Act, a country is notified pursuant to section 404(b)(2), or a wavier is granted pursuant to section 404(c)(1), the President shall submit a report to the appropriate congressional committees not later than June 15 of the following year. The report shall include—</text> <paragraph id="H7F1FA5BC5E1C46B68EBEF24B5909D528"><enum>(1)</enum><text>a list of the countries receiving notification that they are in violation of the standards under this title;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HAFA50D3AD21E4B35AFCC198F73D9EF75"><enum>(2)</enum><text>a list of any waivers or exceptions exercised under this title;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H28D764EB351B4211836F87570247737B"><enum>(3)</enum><text>justification for any such waivers and exceptions; and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H6D03CFAAEBB1420D9CAA923E68DCA31"><enum>(4)</enum><text>a description of any assistance provided under this title pursuant to the issuance of such waiver.</text></paragraph></subsection></section> <section id="H7B3166F189BB4547B326021DBC164CE2"><enum>406.</enum><header>Training for foreign service officers</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 708 of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/4028">22 U.S.C. 4028</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H855740D2CF8343469BB99F5E7012DCE4" style="OLC"> <subsection id="HDE7950B996804460BBC6FD330063F7B0"><enum>(c)</enum><text>The Secretary of State, with the assistance of other relevant officials, shall establish as part of the standard training provided for chiefs of mission, deputy chiefs of mission, and other officers of the Service who are or will be involved in the assessment of child soldier use or the drafting of the annual Human Rights Report instruction on matters related to child soldiers, and the substance of the <short-title>Child Soldiers Prevention Act of 2008</short-title>.</text></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section> <section id="H94DFA11753064B55B5C8B412CBFA308C"><enum>407.</enum><header>Effective date; applicability</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">This title, and the amendments made by this title, shall take effect 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act.</text></section> Passed the House of Representatives December 10, 2008.Lorraine C. Miller,Clerk.