[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1362 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1362

To simplify the Trafficking in Persons Report by reducing the number of 
country categories and ranking countries within each category according 
   to their relative adherence to the minimum standards set forth in 
   section 108 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 
                             U.S.C. 7106).


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 13, 2011

   Mr. Webb introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
             referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations

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                                 A BILL


 
To simplify the Trafficking in Persons Report by reducing the number of 
country categories and ranking countries within each category according 
   to their relative adherence to the minimum standards set forth in 
   section 108 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 
                             U.S.C. 7106).

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Trafficking in Persons Report 
Improvement Act of 2011''.

SEC. 2. TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT.

    Section 110 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 
U.S.C. 7107) is amended--
            (1) by striking subsection (b) and inserting the following:
    ``(b) Annual Report.--Not later than June 1 of each year, the 
Secretary of State shall submit a report to the appropriate 
congressional committees that describes the anti-trafficking efforts of 
the United States and foreign governments according to the minimum 
standards and criteria set forth in section 108, the nature and scope 
of trafficking in persons in each country, and analyzes the trend lines 
for individual governmental efforts. The report shall include--
            ``(1) a list of countries whose governments are in full 
        compliance with the applicable minimum standards set forth in 
        section 108, ranked on a single scale according to their 
        relative adherence to such standards;
            ``(2) a list of countries whose governments are not in full 
        compliance with such standards, ranked on a single scale 
        according to their relative adherence to such standards;
            ``(3) a section entitled `Exemplary Governments and 
        Practices in the Eradication of Trafficking in Persons' that 
        highlights--
                    ``(A) effective practices and use of innovation and 
                technology in prevention, protection, prosecution, and 
                partnerships, including by foreign governments, the 
                private sector, and domestic civil society actors; and
                    ``(B) governments that have shown exemplary overall 
                efforts to combat trafficking in persons;
            ``(4) information on the measures taken by the United 
        Nations, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in 
        Europe, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and, as 
        appropriate, other multilateral organizations in which the 
        United States participates, to prevent the involvement of the 
        organization's employees, contractor personnel, and 
        peacekeeping forces in trafficking in persons or the 
        exploitation of victims of trafficking;
            ``(5) 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
            ``(6) emerging issues in human trafficking.''; and
            (2) in subsection (c)--
                    (A) by striking ``Not less'' and inserting the 
                following:
            ``(1) In general.--Not fewer'';
                    (B) by striking ``, on or after January 1, 2003, of 
                an annual report under subsection (b)(1) of this 
                section, or an interim report under subsection (b)(2) 
                of this section,'' and inserting ``of an annual report 
                under subsection (b),'';
                    (C) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``, as 
                described in subsection (b)(1)(C) of this section''; 
                and
                    (D) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(2) Significant efforts.--In determining under paragraph 
        (1)(B) whether the government of a country is making 
        significant efforts to bring itself into compliance with the 
        minimum standards set forth in section 108, the Secretary of 
        State shall consider--
                    ``(A) the extent to which the country is a country 
                of origin, transit, or destination for severe forms of 
                trafficking;
                    ``(B) the extent of noncompliance with the minimum 
                standards by the government and the extent to which 
                officials or employees of the government have 
                participated in, facilitated, condoned, or are 
                otherwise complicit in severe forms of trafficking; and
                    ``(C) what measures are reasonable to bring the 
                government into compliance with the minimum standards 
                in light of the resources and capabilities of the 
                government.''.
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