[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 11]
[Senate]
[Page 14605]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




      TO ENSURE FUNDING FOR THE NATIONAL HUMAN TRAFFICKING HOTLINE

  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions be discharged from 
further consideration of S. 2974, and the Senate proceed to its 
immediate consideration.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The clerk will report the bill by title.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       A bill (S. 2974) to ensure funding for the National Human 
     Trafficking Hotline, and for other purposes.

  There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the bill.
  Mr. McCONNELL. I ask unanimous consent that the bill be read a third 
time and passed and the motion to reconsider be considered made and 
laid upon the table.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The bill (S. 2974) was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, 
was read the third time, and passed, as follows:

                                S. 2974

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

     SECTION 1. FUNDING FOR THE NATIONAL HUMAN TRAFFICKING 
                   HOTLINE; PERFECTING AMENDMENT.

       (a) HHS Funding for Trafficking Hotline.--Section 
     107(b)(1)(B)(ii) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 
     2000 (22 U.S.C. 7105(b)(1)(B)(ii)) is amended by striking 
     ``of amounts made available for grants under paragraph 
     (2),''.
       (b) Perfecting Amendment.--Section 603 of the Justice for 
     Victims of Trafficking Act of 2015 (Public Law 114-22; 129 
     Stat. 259) is amended, in the matter preceding paragraph (1), 
     by striking ``Victims of Crime Trafficking'' and inserting 
     ``Victims of Trafficking''.
       (c) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this Act shall 
     take effect as if enacted as part of the Justice for Victims 
     of Trafficking Act of 2015 (Public Law 114-22; 129 Stat. 
     227).

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