[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 40 (Tuesday, March 10, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S1391]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 277. Mrs. SHAHEEN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by her to the bill S. 178, to provide justice for the victims of 
trafficking; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end, add the following:

     TITLE __--HUMAN TRAFFICKING SURVIVORS RELIEF AND EMPOWERMENT 
                   ACT

     SECTION _01. SHORT TITLE.

       This title may be cited as the ``Human Trafficking 
     Survivors Relief and Empowerment Act of 2015''.

     SEC. _02. PROTECTIONS FOR HUMAN TRAFFICKING SURVIVORS.

       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.''.
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