[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
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[H.R. 1625 Reported in Senate (RS)]

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                                                       Calendar No. 311
115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 1625


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 23, 2017

Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations

                           February 12, 2018

               Reported by Mr. Corker, with an amendment
 [Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed 
                               in italic]

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                                 AN ACT


 
To amend the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to include 
    severe forms of trafficking in persons within the definition of 
 transnational organized crime for purposes of the rewards program of 
            the Department of State, and for other purposes.

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

<DELETED>SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.</DELETED>

<DELETED>    This Act may be cited as the ``Targeted Rewards for the 
Global Eradication of Human Trafficking'' or the ``TARGET 
Act''.</DELETED>

<DELETED>SEC. 2. FINDINGS; SENSE OF CONGRESS.</DELETED>

<DELETED>    (a) Findings.--Congress finds the following:</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (1) Trafficking in persons is a major 
        transnational crime that threatens United States national 
        security and humanitarian interests.</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (2) Trafficking in persons is increasingly 
        perpetrated by organized, sophisticated criminal 
        enterprises.</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (3) Combating trafficking in persons requires a 
        global approach to identifying and apprehending the world's 
        worst human trafficking rings.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    (b) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that 
the Department of State's rewards program is a powerful tool in 
combating sophisticated international crime and that the Department of 
State and Federal law enforcement should work in concert to offer 
rewards that target human traffickers who threaten United States 
national security and humanitarian interests by preying on the most 
vulnerable people around the world.</DELETED>

<DELETED>SEC. 3. REWARDS FOR JUSTICE.</DELETED>

<DELETED>    Paragraph (5) of section 36(k) of the State Department 
Basic Authorities Act of 1956 (22 U.S.C. 2708(k)) is amended--
</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (1) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by 
        striking ``means'';</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (2) by redesignating subparagraphs (A) and (B) as 
        clauses (i) and (ii), respectively, and moving such clauses, as 
        so redesignated, two ems to the right;</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (3) by inserting before clause (i), as so 
        redesignated, the following:</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    ``(A) means--'';</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (4) in clause (ii), as so redesignated, by 
        striking the period at the end and inserting ``; and''; 
        and</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (5) by adding at the end following new 
        subparagraph:</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    ``(B) includes severe forms of trafficking 
                in persons, as such term is defined in section 103 of 
                the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 
                U.S.C. 7102).''.</DELETED>

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLES.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Targeted Rewards for the Global 
Eradication of Human Trafficking'' or the ``TARGET Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS; SENSE OF CONGRESS.

    (a) Findings.--Congress finds the following:
            (1) Trafficking in persons is a major transnational crime, 
        as recognized by the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 
        (22 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.; division A of Public Law 106-386).
            (2) Trafficking in persons is increasingly perpetrated by 
        organized, sophisticated criminal enterprises.
            (3) Combating trafficking in persons requires a global 
        approach to identifying and apprehending the world's worst 
        human trafficking rings.
    (b) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that the 
Department of State's rewards program is a powerful tool in combating 
sophisticated international crime and that the Department of State and 
Federal law enforcement should work in concert to offer rewards that 
target human traffickers who prey on the most vulnerable people around 
the world.

SEC. 3. REWARDS FOR JUSTICE.

    Section 36(k)(5) of the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 
1956 (22 U.S.C. 2708(k)(5)) is amended--
            (1) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by striking 
        ``means'';
            (2) by redesignating subparagraphs (A) and (B) as clauses 
        (i) and (ii), respectively, and moving such clauses, as 
        redesignated, 2 ems to the right;
            (3) by inserting before clause (i), as redesignated, the 
        following:
                    ``(A) means--'';
            (4) in clause (ii), as redesignated, by striking the period 
        at the end and inserting ``; and''; and
            (5) by adding at the end following:
                    ``(B) includes severe forms of trafficking in 
                persons (as defined in section 103 of the Trafficking 
                Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7102)) 
                involving at least 1 jurisdiction outside of the United 
                States.''.
                                                       Calendar No. 311

115th CONGRESS

  2d Session

                               H. R. 1625

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 AN ACT

To amend the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to include 
    severe forms of trafficking in persons within the definition of 
 transnational organized crime for purposes of the rewards program of 
            the Department of State, and for other purposes.

_______________________________________________________________________

                           February 12, 2018

                       Reported with an amendment