[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2149 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2149

  To amend the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 to include 
   financial criminal activities associated with the facilitation of 
severe forms of trafficking in persons within the factors considered as 
 indicia of serious and sustained efforts to eliminate severe forms of 
            trafficking in persons, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 9, 2019

  Mr. Steil (for himself and Ms. Dean) introduced the following bill; 
         which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 to include 
   financial criminal activities associated with the facilitation of 
severe forms of trafficking in persons within the factors considered as 
 indicia of serious and sustained efforts to eliminate severe forms of 
            trafficking in persons, 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 ``Exposing the Financing of Human 
Trafficking Act''.

SEC. 2. INCLUSION OF FINANCIAL CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES.

    Subsection (b) of section 108 of the Trafficking Victims Protection 
Act of 2000 is amended by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph:
            ``(13) Whether the government of the country vigorously 
        investigates, seeks to prevent, and prosecutes financial 
        criminal activities associated with the facilitation of severe 
        forms of trafficking in persons.''.
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