[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 508 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 508

   To require a study and report on the housing and service needs of 
    victims of trafficking and individuals at risk for trafficking.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 11, 2019

  Mrs. Beatty (for herself and Mrs. Wagner) introduced the following 
    bill; which was referred to the Committee on Financial Services

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                                 A BILL


 
   To require a study and report on the housing and service needs of 
    victims of trafficking and individuals at risk for trafficking.

    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 Victims Housing Act of 
2019''.

SEC. 2. STUDY AND REPORT ON HOUSING AND SERVICE NEEDS OF VICTIMS OF 
              TRAFFICKING AND INDIVIDUALS AT RISK FOR TRAFFICKING.

    (a) Definitions.--In this section, the terms ``severe forms of 
trafficking in persons'' and ``victim of trafficking'' have the 
meanings given those terms in section 103 of the Trafficking Victims 
Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7102).
    (b) Study and Report.--The United States Interagency Council on 
Homelessness, in coordination with the United States Advisory Council 
on Human Trafficking, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, 
the Administration for Children and Families of the Department of 
Health and Human Services, and the Department of Justice, and in 
consultation with the National Advisory Committee on Sex Trafficking of 
Children and Youth in the United States and direct service providers 
and housing and homelessness practitioners, shall conduct a study 
assessing the availability and accessibility of housing and services 
for individuals experiencing homelessness who are victims of 
trafficking, victims of severe forms of trafficking in persons, or at 
risk of being trafficked, which shall include--
            (1) an evaluation of formal assessments and outreach 
        methods used to identify and assess the housing and service 
        needs of those individuals;
            (2) a review of the availability and accessibility of 
        homelessness or housing services for those individuals, 
        including the families of those individuals who are minors and 
        youth involved in foster care systems;
            (3) the effect of any policies and procedures of mainstream 
        homelessness or housing services that facilitate or limit their 
        availability and accessibility for those individuals, as those 
        services are in effect as of the date on which the report is 
        submitted;
            (4) an assessment of the ability of mainstream homelessness 
        or housing services to meet the specialized needs of victims of 
        trafficking, including trauma responsive approaches specific to 
        labor and sex trafficking victims;
            (5) an evaluation of the effectiveness of and 
        infrastructure considerations for housing and service-delivery 
        models that are specific to victims of severe forms of 
        trafficking in persons, including emergency rental assistance 
        models; and
            (6) an identification of best practices in meeting the 
        housing and service needs of those individuals.
    (c) Report Submissions.--The United States Interagency Council on 
Homelessness shall submit to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and 
Urban Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Financial Services of 
the House of Representatives--
            (1) not later than 18 months after the date of the 
        enactment of this Act, an interim report containing the 
        information described in paragraphs (1) through (5) of 
        subsection (b); and
            (2) not later than 36 months after the date of the 
        enactment of this Act, a final report containing--
                    (A) the information described in paragraphs (1) 
                through (6) of subsection (b); and
                    (B) any updates to the information contained in the 
                interim report submitted under paragraph (1).
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