[Senate Report 117-236]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]


                                                       Calendar No. 600

117th Congress     }                                     {    Report
 2d Session        }             SENATE                  {    117-236   
                                                                
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                     IMPACTT HUMAN TRAFFICKING ACT

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                              R E P O R T

                                 of the

                   COMMITTEE ON HOMELAND SECURITY AND

                          GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS

                          UNITED STATES SENATE

                              to accompany

                                S. 4611

              TO IMPROVE SERVICES FOR TRAFFICKING VICTIMS
                 BY ESTABLISHING, IN HOMELAND SECURITY
               INVESTIGATIONS, THE INVESTIGATORS MAINTAIN
               PURPOSEFUL AWARENESS TO COMBAT TRAFFICKING
            TRAUMA PROGRAM AND THE VICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM



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                December 7, 2022.--Ordered to be printed






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                 U.S. GOVERNMENT PUBLISHING OFFICE

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        COMMITTEE ON HOMELAND SECURITY AND GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS

                   GARY C. PETERS, Michigan, Chairman

THOMAS R. CARPER, Delaware           ROB PORTMAN, Ohio
MAGGIE HASSAN, New Hampshire         RON JOHNSON, Wisconsin
KYRSTEN SINEMA, Arizona              RAND PAUL, Kentucky
JACKY ROSEN, Nevada                  JAMES LANKFORD, Oklahoma
ALEX PADILLA, California             MITT ROMNEY, Utah
JON OSSOFF, Georgia                  RICK SCOTT, Florida
                                     JOSH HAWLEY, Missouri

                   David M. Weinberg, Staff Director
                    Zachary I. Schram, Chief Counsel
                    Sarah C. Pierce, Senior Counsel
                Pamela Thiessen, Minority Staff Director
            Sam J. Mulopulos, Minority Deputy Staff Director
       Jeremy H. Hayes, Minority Senior Professional Staff Member
                     Laura W. Kilbride, Chief Clerk




                                                       Calendar No. 600

117th Congress     }                                     {    Report
 2d Session        }             SENATE                  {    117-236   

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                     IMPACTT HUMAN TRAFFICKING ACT

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                December 7, 2022.--Ordered to be printed

                                _______
                                

 Mr. Peters, from the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental 
                    Affairs, submitted the following

                              R E P O R T

                         [To accompany S. 4611]

      [Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]

    The Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental 
Affairs, to which was referred the bill (S. 4611), to improve 
services for trafficking victims by establishing, in Homeland 
Security Investigations, the Investigators Maintain Purposeful 
Awareness to Combat Trafficking Trauma Program and the Victim 
Assistance Program, having considered the same, reports 
favorably thereon with an amendment, in the nature of a 
substitute, and recommends that the bill, as amended, do pass.

                                CONTENTS

                                                                   Page
  I. Purpose and Summary..............................................1
 II. Background and Need for the Legislation..........................2
III. Legislative History..............................................4
 IV. Section-by-Section Analysis of the Bill, as Reported.............4
  V. Evaluation of Regulatory Impact..................................5
 VI. Congressional Budget Office Cost Estimate........................5
VII. Changes in Existing Law Made by the Bill, as Reported............8

                         I. Purpose and Summary

    S. 4611, the IMPACTT Human Trafficking Act, will enhance 
the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Homeland Security 
Investigations (HSI) efforts to combat human trafficking by 
codifying and expanding the HSI Victim Assistance Program to 
provide services for trafficking victims. The bill would also 
establish a program to safeguard HSI employees and partners who 
are exposed to repeated stress and associated trauma in working 
with victims of human trafficking.

              II. Background and the Need for Legislation

    Human trafficking is the second largest criminal industry 
in the world, falling shortly behind the drug trade.\1\ This 
crime is a violation of human rights and involves either 
commercial sexual exploitation or forced labor. Unlike drugs, a 
person can be sold over and over again for continual profit. 
According to the U.S. National Human Trafficking Hotline, there 
were 16,658 victims of human trafficking identified through the 
hotline in 2020 alone.\2\ Human trafficking victims can be of 
any gender, age, race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, and 
socio-economic class. Likewise, this is also true of human 
traffickers, who may be strangers but are often acquaintances 
or family members known to the victim. This increasingly 
prevalent crime is estimated to yield global profits of $150 
billion every year.\3\
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    \1\United States Agency for International Development, Countering 
Trafficking in Persons (https://www.usaid.gov/trafficking) (accessed 
11/30/2022).
    \2\Polaris Project, Human Trafficking Trends in 2020, An analysis 
of data from the U.S. National Human Trafficking Hotline (https://
polarisproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Human-Trafficking-Trends-
in-2020-by-Polaris.pdf) (accessed Oct. 14, 2022).
    \3\U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Countering Human 
Trafficking: Year in Review (October 2020 to September 2021, (https://
www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/2022-02/CCHT%20Annual%20Report.pdf) 
(accessed Oct. 14, 2022).
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    Since the creation of DHS in 2003, HSI has played a leading 
role in identifying victims of human trafficking and child 
exploitation, as well as bringing violators to justice. HSI 
pursues a victim-centered approach to human trafficking, 
seeking to minimize additional trauma, mitigate undue 
penalization, and stabilize and support victims.\4\ This 
approach encourages survivors to participate actively in 
investigations, enabling law enforcement to better detect, 
investigate, and prosecute perpetrators. It also requires 
significant efforts from the agents and assistance specialists 
involved, who work tirelessly to bring perpetrators to justice 
in a way that ensures victims have sufficient support.
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    \4\U.S. Department of Homeland Security, DHS Center for Countering 
Human Trafficking (www.dhs.gov/dhs-center-countering-human-trafficking) 
(accessed Aug. 18, 2022).
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    This bill codifies and enhances the Victim Assistance 
Program, which provides HSI with victim assistance specialists 
to serve victims identified through HSI investigations. This 
bill will create additional Victim Assistance Specialist (VAS) 
positions to ensure every office participating in a human 
trafficking or child exploitation task force will have a 
dedicated VAS. Currently, there are only enough VASs to serve 
the largest field offices within HSI, leaving the majority of 
offices to rely on agents who provide victim assistance as a 
secondary responsibility. These agents are not professional 
VASs and conduct this duty alongside their criminal 
investigations work. The Victim Assistance Program and its 
expansion is essential to carrying out HSI's victim-centered 
approach. VASs provide victim support and referral to services 
throughout the investigative and prosecutorial process. Through 
this program, VASs also provide training and outreach to HSI 
employees, law enforcement and victim service partners, private 
sector stakeholders, and community organizations in an effort 
to increase identification of victims and referrals for human 
trafficking investigations. This bill would ensure that the 
required training provided by VASs regarding victims' rights, 
victim-related policies, roles of forensic interviewers and 
VASs, is conducted through an approach that is victim-centered, 
trauma informed, and linguistically appropriate.
    The Victim Assistance Program provides forensic interview 
support that is crucial for successful investigations and 
ensures the least amount of retraumatization of victims. It 
also provides training and technical assistance to agents and 
other law enforcement partners to ensure victims have access to 
the rights and services to which they are entitled. This bill 
allows, through the Victim Assistance Program, funds to be 
available for emergency expenditures for items related to basic 
needs upon recovery of a victim, such as food, clothing, 
hygiene products, transportation, and temporary shelter. These 
emergency expenditures are often taken on by agents and VASs 
who are first in contact with victims, often without 
reimbursement. By making these funds immediately accessible, 
victims receive these items in a more expeditious manner.
    Trauma experienced by human trafficking victims can be 
devastating and often involves extreme psychological and 
physical abuse at the hands of traffickers. Vicarious and other 
secondary trauma exposure occurs when those working with 
victims, including law enforcement officers, witness the 
initial recovery and observe first-hand the cruelty and 
violence the victim has endured; listen to victims recount 
vivid details of their victimization; are exposed to videos and 
images of severe exploitation; and witness the long road to 
recovery, which often includes regressive setbacks. This trauma 
can significantly affect the physical and emotional well-being 
of the law enforcement, forensic interviewers, service 
providers and other professionals who are working with victims. 
According to the Department of Justice's Office of Victims of 
Crime, some of the common negative reactions of vicarious and 
other associated trauma include: difficulty managing emotions; 
physical problems or complaints, including decreased resistance 
to illness; loss of a sense of meaning in life; relationship 
problems; aggressive or violent outbursts and behavior; 
destructive coping or addictive behaviors; and a combination of 
symptoms that comprise a diagnosis of Posttraumatic Stress 
Disorder (PTSD), among other reactions.\5\
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    \5\U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Victims of Crime, What is 
Vicarious Trauma? (https://ovc.ojp.gov/program/vtt/what-is-vicarious-
trauma) (accessed Aug. 11, 2022).
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    This bill would codify a program initiated at HSI in 2022 
to provide support to address such secondary trauma. The 
Investigators Maintain Purposeful Awareness to Combat 
Trafficking Trauma Program (IMPACTT program) was developed 
after agents working in the field and at the HSI Center for 
Countering Human Trafficking (CCHT) identified a significant 
need to address these issues. The IMPACTT Program provides 
outreach and training to HSI employees and partners who have 
been exposed to vicarious trauma in working with victims of 
human trafficking. The bill requires the IMPACTT program to 
provide self-awareness training to those working with victims 
on recognizing the signs of burnout, stress, and vicarious 
trauma. This training must provide tools and resources for 
self-care and resilience. Additionally, training must be 
provided to first line supervisors of relevant employees 
specific to recognizing the aforementioned signs and how to 
provide the appropriate response.

                        III. Legislative History

    Senator Peters (D-MI), along with Senator Portman (R-OH), 
introduced S. 4611 on July 26, 2022. The bill was referred to 
the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
    The Committee considered S. 4611 at a business meeting on 
August 3, 2022. During the business meeting, Senators Peters 
and Portman filed a substitute amendment to provide for the 
short title of IMPACTT Human Trafficking Act. The bill, as 
amended, was ordered reported favorably by voice vote en bloc, 
with Senators Peters, Hassan, Sinema, Rosen, Padilla, Ossoff, 
Lankford, Romney, Scott, and Hawley present.

        IV. Section-by-Section Analysis of the Bill, as Reported


Section 1. Short title

    This section cites the short title as the ``IMPACTT Human 
Trafficking Act.''

Section 2. Investigators Maintain Purposeful Awareness to Combat 
        Trafficking Trauma Program

    This section establishes the IMPACTT Program within HSI. 
The IMPACTT Program will provide outreach and training to HSI 
employees and partners who have been exposed to vicarious 
trauma in working with victims of human trafficking. This 
section requires, through the IMPACTT program, that self-
awareness training be provided to the relevant employees and 
partners on recognizing the signs of burnout, compassion 
fatigue, critical incident stress, traumatic stress, 
posttraumatic stress, secondary traumatic stress, and vicarious 
trauma. This training must include mechanisms of self-care, 
resilience, and resources available through the employee 
assistance program. Additionally, training must be provided to 
first line supervisors of relevant employees specific to 
recognizing the aforementioned signs and how to provide the 
appropriate response.
    This section requires training modules to be carried out by 
licensed and accredited clinicians or other subject matter 
experts who have been trained on the exposure of various forms 
of trauma and other stressors experienced in working with 
victims.
    This section also charges the HSI Center for Countering 
Human Trafficking with overseeing the IMPACTT program to ensure 
that training is offered to all relevant employees, appropriate 
program materials are distributed, and any needed travel and 
equipment is provided.
    This section also authorizes $800,000 to be appropriated 
for each fiscal year for the Secretary to carry out the IMPACTT 
program.

Section 3. Homeland Security Investigations Victim Assistance Program

    This section defines ``Forensic Interview Specialist'' as 
an interviewer who has specialized experience and training in 
conducting trauma-informed forensic interviews with victims of 
crime. It also defines ``Victim Assistance Specialist'' as a 
victim assistance professional who has experience working with 
victims of crime in a service capacity and has been trained on 
the exposure of various forms of trauma and other stressors 
experienced in working with victims.
    This section establishes the HSI Victim Assistance Program 
and provides HSI with VAS to serve victims identified through 
HSI investigations in every Special Agent in Charge Office, 
Regional Attach Office, and every office that participates in a 
human trafficking or child exploitation task force. The Victim 
Assistance Program is authorized to provide oversight, 
guidance, training, travel, equipment, and coordination to 
victim assistance personnel throughout the United States. VASs 
will provide training regarding victims' rights, victim-related 
policies, roles of forensic interviewers and VASs, through an 
approach that is victim-centered, trauma informed, and 
linguistically appropriate. Through this program, HSI VASs will 
also provide training in an effort to increase identification 
of victims and referrals for investigation.
    This section allows funds to be available for emergency 
expenditures for items related to basic needs upon recovery of 
a victim; such as food, clothing, hygiene products, 
transportation, and temporary shelter.
    This section authorizes there to be appropriated 
$25,000,000 for each fiscal year to carry out this program.
    This section also includes a technical amendment that 
amends Subtitle D of title IV of the Homeland Security Act of 
2002 to replace ``Bureau of Border Security'' with ``U.S. 
Immigration and Customs Enforcement.''

Section 4. Annual Report

    This section requires that not later than one year after 
the date of the enactment, and annually thereafter, the 
Secretary to submit a report to Congress that identifies, with 
respect to the reporting period, the number of trainings that 
were provided through the IMPACTT Program and the number of 
personnel who received such training and the number of 
potential human trafficking victims who were assisted by the 
Homeland Security Investigations Victim Assistance Program.

                   V. Evaluation of Regulatory Impact

    Pursuant to the requirements of paragraph 11(b) of rule 
XXVI of the Standing Rules of the Senate, the Committee has 
considered the regulatory impact of this bill and determined 
that the bill will have no regulatory impact within the meaning 
of the rules. The Committee agrees with the Congressional 
Budget Office's statement that the bill contains no 
intergovernmental or private-sector mandates as defined in the 
Unfunded Mandates Reform Act (UMRA) and would impose no costs 
on state, local, or tribal governments.

             VI. Congressional Budget Office Cost Estimate

                                     U.S. Congress,
                               Congressional Budget Office,
                                  Washington, DC, November 9, 2022.
Hon. Gary C. Peters,
Chairman, Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, U.S. 
        Senate, Washington, DC.
    Dear Mr. Chairman: The Congressional Budget Office has 
prepared the enclosed table summarizing estimated budgetary 
effects and mandates information for some of the legislation 
that has been ordered reported by the Senate Committee on 
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs during the 117th 
Congress.
    If you wish further details, we will be pleased to provide 
them. The CBO staff contact for each estimate is listed on the 
enclosed table.
            Sincerely,
                                         Phillip L. Swagel,
                                                          Director.
    Enclosure.

           SUMMARY ESTIMATES OF LEGISLATION ORDERED REPORTED

    Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental 
Affairs The Congressional Budget Act of 1974 requires the 
Congressional Budget Office, to the extent practicable, to 
prepare estimates of the budgetary effects of legislation 
ordered reported by Congressional authorizing committees. In 
order to provide the Congress with as much information as 
possible, the attached table summarizes information about the 
estimated direct spending and revenue effects of some of the 
legislation that has been ordered reported by the Senate 
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs during 
the 117th Congress. The legislation listed in this table 
generally would have small effects, if any, on direct spending 
or revenues, CBO estimates. Where possible, the table also 
provides information about the legislation's estimated effects 
on spending subject to appropriation and on intergovernmental 
and private-sector mandates as defined in the Unfunded Mandates 
Reform Act.

                                                                      ESTIMATED BUDGETARY EFFECTS AND MANDATES INFORMATION
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                                                                                                                                                           Increases On-
                                                                                                                          Spending Subject  Pay-As-You-Go     Budget
   Bill          Title         Status        Last Action       Budget Function    Direct Spending,     Revenues, 2023-   to Appropriation,    Procedures     Deficits      Mandates     Contact
  Number                                                                              2023-2032             2032             2023-2027          Apply?     Beginning in
                                                                                                                                                               2033?
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S. 4611     IMPACTT Human   Ordered               08/03/22                 750                   0                   0   Not estimated      No             No            No           Jeremy
             Trafficking     reported                                                                                                                                                  Crimm
             Act
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S. 4611 would authorize the appropriation of $800,000 annually to provide outreach and training for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) staff who have been exposed to trauma from working
  with victims of human trafficking. The bill also would authorize the appropriation of $25 million annually for a victim assistance program within ICE. CBO estimates that enacting S. 4611
  would not affect direct spending or revenues. CBO has not estimated the discretionary costs of implementing the bill because based on information from the agency, we are not sure how much of
  the authorized amounts would be spent. The bill contains no intergovernmental or private-sector mandates as defined in the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act.

       VII. Changes in Existing Law Made by the Bill, as Reported

    In compliance with paragraph 12 of rule XXVI of the 
Standing Rules of the Senate, changes in existing law made by 
the bill, as reported, are shown as follows: (existing law 
proposed to be omitted is enclosed in brackets, new matter is 
printed in italic, and existing law in which no change is 
proposed is shown in roman):

HOMELAND SECURITY ACT OF 2002

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TITLE IV--BORDER, MARITIME, AND TRANSPORTATION SECURITY

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Subtitle D--U.S. Immigration and Customs

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SEC. 442. [ESTABLISHMENT OF BUREAU OF BORDER SECURITY] U.S. IMMIGRATION 
                    AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT.

    (a) Establishment [of Bureau].--
          (1) In general.--There shall be in the Department of 
        Homeland Security a [bureau] agency to be known as the 
        [``Bureau of Border Security''] ``U.S. Immigration and 
        Customs Enforcement''.
          (2) Assistant secretary.--The head of the [Bureau of 
        Border Security] U.S. Immigration and Customs 
        Enforcement shall be the Assistant Secretary of [the 
        Bureau of Border Security] U.S. Immigration and Customs 
        Enforcement, who--
                  (A) shall report directly to the Under 
                Secretary for Border and Transportation 
                Security; and
                  (B) shall have a minimum of 5 years 
                professional experience in law enforcement, and 
                a minimum of 5 years of management experience.
          (3) Functions.--The Assistant Secretary of the 
        [Bureau of Border Security] U.S. Immigration and 
        Customs Enforcement--
                  (A) shall establish the policies for 
                performing such functions as are--
                          (i) transferred to the Under 
                        Secretary for Border and Transportation 
                        Security by section 441 and delegated 
                        to the Assistant Secretary by the Under 
                        Secretary for Border and Transportation 
                        Security; or
                          (ii) otherwise vested in the 
                        Assistant Secretary by law;
                  (B) shall oversee the administration of such 
                policies; and
                  (C) shall advise the Under Secretary for 
                Border and Transportation Security with respect 
                to any policy or operation of the [Bureau of 
                Border Security] U.S. Immigration and Customs 
                Enforcement that may [affect the Bureau of] 
                affecting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration 
                Services established under subtitle E, 
                including potentially conflicting policies or 
                operations.
          (4) Program to collect information relating to 
        foreign students.--The Assistant Secretary of the 
        [Bureau of Border Security] U.S. Immigration and 
        Customs Enforcement shall be responsible for 
        administering the program to collect information 
        relating to nonimmigrant foreign students and other 
        exchange program participants described in section 641 
        of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant 
        Responsibility Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1372), including 
        the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System 
        established under that section, and shall use such 
        information to carry out the enforcement functions of 
        [the Bureau] the agency.
          (5) Managerial rotation program.--
                  (A) In general.--Not later than 1 year after 
                the date on which the transfer of functions 
                specified under section 441 takes effect, the 
                Assistant Secretary of the [Bureau of Border 
                Security] U.S. Immigration and Customs 
                Enforcement shall design and implement a 
                managerial rotation program under which 
                employees of such [bureau] agency holding 
                positions involving supervisory or managerial 
                responsibility and classified, in accordance 
                with chapter 51 of title 5, United States Code, 
                as a GS-14 or above, shall--
                          (i) gain some experience in all the 
                        major functions performed by such 
                        [bureau] agency; and
                          (ii) work in at least one local 
                        office of such [bureau] agency.
                  (B) Report.--Not later than 2 years after the 
                date on which the transfer of functions 
                specified under section 441 takes effect, the 
                Secretary shall submit a report to the Congress 
                on the implementation of such program.
    (b) Chief of Policy and Strategy.--
          (1) In general.--There shall be a position of Chief 
        of Policy and Strategy for the [Bureau of Border 
        Security] U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
          (2) Functions.--In consultation with [Bureau of 
        Border Security] U.S. Immigration and Customs 
        Enforcement personnel in local offices, the Chief of 
        Policy and Strategy shall be responsible for--
                  (A) making policy recommendations and 
                performing policy research and analysis on 
                immigration enforcement issues; and
                  (B) coordinating immigration policy issues 
                with the Chief of Policy and Strategy for [the 
                Bureau of] U.S. Citizenship and Immigration 
                Services (established under subtitle E), as 
                appropriate.
    (c) Legal Advisor.--There shall be a principal legal 
advisor to the Assistant Secretary of [the Bureau of Border 
Security] U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The legal 
advisor shall provide specialized legal advice to the Assistant 
Secretary of [the Bureau of Border Security] U.S. Immigration 
and Customs Enforcement and shall represent the [bureau] agency 
in all exclusion, deportation, and removal proceedings before 
the Executive Office for Immigration Review.

SEC. 443. PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY AND QUALITY REVIEW.

    The Secretary shall be responsible for--
          (1) * * *
          (2) inspecting the operations of U.S. Immigration and 
        Customs Enforcement and providing assessments of the 
        quality of the operations of [such bureau] such agency 
        as a whole and each of its components; and

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SEC. 447. HOMELAND SECURITY INVESTIGATIONS VICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM.

    (a) Definitions.--In this section:
          (1) Forensic interview specialist.--The term 
        `forensic interview specialist' is an interview 
        professional who has specialized experience and 
        training in conducting trauma-informed forensic 
        interviews with victims of crime.
          (2) Victim assistance specialist.--The term `victim 
        assistance specialist' is a victim assistance 
        professional who--
                  (A) has experience working with victims of 
                crime in a service capacity; and
          (B) has been trained on the exposure of various forms 
        of trauma and other stressors experienced in working 
        with victims.
    (b) In General.--There is established, in Homeland Security 
Investigations of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the 
Victim Assistance Program.
    (c) Functions.--The Victim Assistance Program shall--
          (1) provide oversight, guidance, training, travel, 
        equipment, and coordination to victim assistance 
        personnel throughout the United States;
          (2) recruit not fewer than--
                  (A) 1 forensic interview specialist and 1 
                victim assistance specialist for each Homeland 
                Security Investigations Special Agent in Charge 
                office;
                  ``(B) 1 victim assistance specialist for--
                          ``(i) every Homeland Security 
                        Investigations office participating in 
                        a human trafficking task force;
                          ``(ii) every Homeland Security 
                        Investigations regional attache1 
                        office; and
                          ``(iii) every Homeland Security 
                        Investigations office participating in 
                        a child sexual exploitation task force;
          (3) provide training regarding victims'' rights, 
        victim-related policies, roles of forensic interviewers 
        and victim assistance specialists, and an approach that 
        is--
                  ``(A) victim-centered;
                  ``(B) trauma-informed; and
                  ``(C) linguistically appropriate; and
          (4) provide sufficient funding for emergency 
        expenditures to purchase items needed to assist 
        identified victims, including food, clothing, hygiene 
        products, transportation, and temporary shelter that is 
        not otherwise provided by a nongovernmental 
        organization.
    (d) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized 
to be appropriated $25,000,000 for each fiscal year to carry 
out this section.

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