[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7181 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7181

 To amend the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 to direct the 
   Secretary of Transportation to seek to provide for the posting of 
 contact information of the national human trafficking hotline in the 
 restrooms of each aircraft, airport, over-the-road bus, bus station, 
 passenger train, and passenger railroad station operating within the 
                 United States, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 21, 2022

Mr. Jeffries (for himself, Mr. Issa, Ms. Bass, and Ms. Mace) introduced 
    the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the 
   Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and 
   Infrastructure, 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 amend the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 to direct the 
   Secretary of Transportation to seek to provide for the posting of 
 contact information of the national human trafficking hotline in the 
 restrooms of each aircraft, airport, over-the-road bus, bus station, 
 passenger train, and passenger railroad station operating within the 
                 United States, 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 Act of 
2022''.

SEC. 2. POSTING OF NATIONAL HUMAN TRAFFICKING PHONE NUMBER IN CERTAIN 
              RESTROOMS.

    Section 107(b)(1)(B)(ii) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act 
of 2000 (enacted as division A of the Victims of Trafficking and 
Violence Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7105(b)(1)(B)(ii))) is 
amended by adding at the end the following new sentence: ``The 
Secretary of Transportation, in consultation with the Secretary of 
Health and Human Services, shall seek to coordinate with the owners and 
operators of aircraft, airports, over-the-road buses, bus stations, 
passenger trains, and passenger railroad stations to place the contact 
information of the national human trafficking hotline (including 
options to reach out to the hotline such as through phone, text, or 
TTY) in the restrooms of each such aircraft, airport, over-the-road 
bus, bus station, passenger train, and passenger railroad station 
operating within the United States.''.
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