[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 350 Introduced in House (IH)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 350

To direct the Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking 
  to identify strategies to prevent children from becoming victims of 
 trafficking and review trafficking prevention efforts, to protect and 
    assist in the recovery of victims of trafficking, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 14, 2015

 Mrs. Noem (for herself, Ms. Matsui, Mr. Flores, Mr. Cook, Ms. Herrera 
Beutler, Mr. Mullin, Mr. Cramer, Mr. Lance, Mr. Paulsen, Mrs. Walorski, 
Ms. Speier, Mrs. Black, Mr. Walberg, Ms. Bass, Mrs. Wagner, Ms. Kuster, 
   Mr. Coffman, Ms. Granger, Mr. Hudson, Ms. Castor of Florida, Ms. 
  Jenkins of Kansas, Mrs. Blackburn, Mr. Crawford, Mrs. Comstock, Ms. 
  Ros-Lehtinen, Mr. Roskam, Mr. Sessions, Mr. Reed, Mr. Stivers, Mrs. 
   Brooks of Indiana, Mr. Fitzpatrick, Mr. Schock, Mr. LaMalfa, Ms. 
Wasserman Schultz, Mr. Pittenger, Mr. Fleischmann, Mr. Rodney Davis of 
Illinois, Mr. Jolly, Mr. Dent, Mrs. Carolyn B. Maloney of New York, Mr. 
 Issa, Ms. Eshoo, Mr. Kelly of Pennsylvania, Ms. Esty, Ms. Hahn, Mrs. 
  Watson Coleman, Ms. Stefanik, Mrs. Torres, Mr. Hultgren, Ms. Roybal-
   Allard, Mr. Katko, Mr. Weber of Texas, Mr. Zinke, Ms. Frankel of 
     Florida, Ms. Jackson Lee, Ms. Meng, and Mr. King of New York) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, for 
a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for 
consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the 
                          committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
To direct the Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking 
  to identify strategies to prevent children from becoming victims of 
 trafficking and review trafficking prevention efforts, to protect and 
    assist in the recovery of victims of trafficking, and for other 
                               purposes.

    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 ``Human Trafficking Prevention, 
Intervention, and Recovery Act of 2015''.

SEC. 2. INTERAGENCY TASK FORCE REPORT ON CHILD TRAFFICKING PRIMARY 
              PREVENTION.

    (a) Review.--The Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat 
Trafficking, established under section 105 of the Trafficking Victims 
Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7103), shall conduct a review that, 
with regard to trafficking in persons in the United States--
            (1) in consultation with nongovernmental organizations that 
        the Task Force determines appropriate, surveys and catalogues 
        the activities of the Federal Government and State governments 
        to deter individuals from committing trafficking offenses and 
        to prevent children from becoming victims of trafficking;
            (2) surveys academic literature on deterring individuals 
        from committing trafficking offenses, preventing children from 
        becoming victims of trafficking, the commercial sexual 
        exploitation of children, and other similar topics that the 
        Task Force determines appropriate;
            (3) identifies best practices and effective strategies to 
        deter individuals from committing trafficking offenses and to 
        prevent children from becoming victims of trafficking; and
            (4) identifies current gaps in research and data that would 
        be helpful in formulating effective strategies to deter 
        individuals from committing trafficking offenses and to prevent 
        children from becoming victims of trafficking.
    (b) Report.--Not later than one year after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat 
Trafficking shall provide to Congress, and make publicly available in 
electronic format, a report on the review conducted pursuant to 
subparagraph (a).

SEC. 3. GAO REPORT ON INTERVENTION.

    On the date that is one year after the date of the enactment of 
this Act, the Comptroller General of the United States shall submit to 
Congress a report, which shall include--
            (1) information on the efforts of Federal and select State 
        law enforcement agencies to combat human trafficking in the 
        United States; and
            (2) information on each Federal grant program, a purpose of 
        which is to combat human trafficking or assist victims of 
        trafficking, as specified in an authorizing statute or in a 
        guidance document issued by the agency carrying out the grant 
        program.

SEC. 4. PROVISION OF HOUSING PERMITTED TO PROTECT AND ASSIST IN THE 
              RECOVERY OF VICTIMS OF TRAFFICKING.

    Section 107(b)(2)(A) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 
2000 (22 U.S.C. 7105(b)(2)(A)) is amended by inserting before the 
period at the end the following: ``, including programs that provide 
housing to victims of trafficking''.

SEC. 5. VICTIM OF TRAFFICKING DEFINED.

    In this Act, the term ``victim of trafficking'' has the meaning 
given such term in section 103 of the Trafficking Victims Protection 
Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7102).
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