[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5195 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5195

To establish a director of anti-trafficking policies in the Department 
                              of Defense.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 29, 2010

   Mr. Smith of New Jersey introduced the following bill; which was 
              referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
To establish a director of anti-trafficking policies in the Department 
                              of Defense.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE DIRECTOR OF ANTI-TRAFFICKING POLICIES.

    (a) Establishment.--The Secretary of Defense shall designate within 
the Office of the Secretary of Defense a director of anti-trafficking 
policies. The director shall be responsible for overseeing the 
implementation within the Department of Defense of policies relating to 
trafficking in persons, including policies of the Department and 
policies of the Federal Government (including policies contained in 
National Security Presidential Directive 22) as they relate to the 
Department. The Secretary may not assign to the director any 
responsibilities not related to trafficking in persons.
    (b) Duties.--The director designated under subsection (a) shall, in 
consultation with other relevant elements of the Department--
            (1) ensure that training materials and instructional 
        programs relating to trafficking in persons are developed and 
        used by the military departments;
            (2) consult regularly with academicians, faith-based 
        organizations, multilateral organizations, nongovernmental 
        organizations, and others with expertise in combating 
        trafficking in persons, regarding the Department's 
        implementation of policies relating to trafficking in persons;
            (3) conduct surveys of members of the Armed Forces and of 
        employees of the Department to assess attitudes and knowledge 
        regarding trafficking in persons and use the results of those 
        surveys to develop training materials and instructional 
        programs relating to trafficking in persons;
            (4) ensure that trafficking in persons is included as an 
        intelligence requirement in peacekeeping missions that track 
        organized crime;
            (5) ensure the proper handling of cases in which a member 
        of the Armed Forces or an employee or contractor of the 
        Department is alleged to have engaged in or facilitated an act 
        of trafficking in persons and in such cases encourage, as 
        appropriate, implementation of chapter 212 of title 18, United 
        States Code (commonly referred to as the Military 
        Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act of 2000) and the Trafficking 
        Victims Protection Act of 2000;
            (6) ensure that the Department implements the commitments 
        relating to trafficking in persons agreed to by the United 
        States in the context of the North Atlantic Treaty 
        Organization, the United Nations, and other multilateral 
        organizations, as those commitments relate to the Department;
            (7) establish a mechanism to ensure that neither the 
        Department nor any contractor (or subcontractor at any tier) of 
        the Department rehires an employee of such a contractor (or 
        subcontractor) who engaged in a severe form of trafficking in 
        persons while the contract is in effect;
            (8) include the subject of trafficking in persons in 
        military-to-military contact programs;
            (9) in consultation with the Office of the Inspector 
        General of the Department, investigate links between 
        trafficking in persons and deployments of members of the Armed 
        Forces and contractors of the Department;
            (10) consult with contractors of the Department on programs 
        to prevent trafficking in persons and on accountability 
        structures relating to trafficking in persons; and
            (11) perform such other related duties as the Secretary may 
        require.
    (c) Resources.--The director designated under subsection (a) shall 
have sufficient staff and resources to carry out the responsibilities 
and duties described in this paragraph.
    (d) Rank.--The director designated under subsection (a) shall have 
the rank of assistant secretary.
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