[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 642 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 642

     To aid human trafficking victims' recovery and rehabilitation.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 3, 2015

 Mrs. Shaheen introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
     To aid human trafficking victims' recovery and rehabilitation.

    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 Survivors Relief 
and Empowerment Act of 2015''.

SEC. 2. PROTECTIONS FOR HUMAN TRAFFICKING SURVIVORS.

    (a) Grant Program.--Section 1701(c) of title I of the Omnibus Crime 
Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3796dd(c)) is amended 
by striking ``where feasible'' and all that follows, and inserting the 
following: ``where feasible, to an application--
            ``(1) for hiring and rehiring additional career law 
        enforcement officers that involves a non-Federal contribution 
        exceeding the 25 percent minimum under subsection (g); or
            ``(2) from an applicant in a State that has in effect a 
        law--
                    ``(A) that--
                            ``(i) provides a process by which an 
                        individual who is human trafficking survivor 
                        can move to vacate any arrest or conviction 
                        records for prostitution or any other non-
                        violent offense committed as a direct result of 
                        human trafficking;
                            ``(ii) establishes a rebuttable presumption 
                        that any arrest or conviction of an individual 
                        for an offense associated with human 
                        trafficking is a result of being trafficked, if 
                        the individual--
                                    ``(I) is a person granted 
                                nonimmigrant status pursuant to section 
                                101(a)(15)(T)(i) of the Immigration and 
                                Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
                                1101(a)(15)(T)(i));
                                    ``(II) is the subject of a 
                                certification by the Secretary of 
                                Health and Human Services under section 
                                107(b)(1)(E) of the Trafficking Victims 
                                Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 
                                7105(b)(1)(E)); or
                                    ``(III) has other similar 
                                documentation of trafficking, which has 
                                been issued by a Federal agency; and
                            ``(iii) protects the identity of 
                        individuals who are human trafficking survivors 
                        in public and court records; and
                    ``(B) that does not require an individual who is a 
                human trafficking survivor to provide official 
                documentation as described in subclause (I), (II), or 
                (III) of subparagraph (A)(ii) in order to receive 
                protection under the law.''.
    (b) Legal Services for Human Trafficking Survivors.--
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Legal Services 
Corporation and the recipients of its funding may provide legal 
services on behalf a human trafficking survivor applying for a motion 
to vacate under a State law described in paragraph (2) of section 
1701(c) of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 
1968 (42 U.S.C. 3796dd(c)), as added by subsection (a).
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