H.R. 350 — Introduced in House

I 114th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 350 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 14, 2015 Mrs. Noem (for herself, Ms. Matsui, Mr. Flores, Mr. Cook, Ms. Herrera Beutler, Mr. Mullin, Mr. Cramer, Mr. Lance, Mr. Paulsen, Mrs. Walorski, Ms. Speier, Mrs. Black, Mr. Walberg, Ms. Bass, Mrs. Wagner, Ms. Kuster, Mr. Coffman, Ms. Granger, Mr. Hudson, Ms. Castor of Florida, Ms. Jenkins of Kansas, Mrs. Blackburn, Mr. Crawford, Mrs. Comstock, Ms. Ros-Lehtinen, Mr. Roskam, Mr. Sessions, Mr. Reed, Mr. Stivers, Mrs. Brooks of Indiana, Mr. Fitzpatrick, Mr. Schock, Mr. LaMalfa, Ms. Wasserman Schultz, Mr. Pittenger, Mr. Fleischmann, Mr. Rodney Davis of Illinois, Mr. Jolly, Mr. Dent, Mrs. Carolyn B. Maloney of New York, Mr. Issa, Ms. Eshoo, Mr. Kelly of Pennsylvania, Ms. Esty, Ms. Hahn, Mrs. Watson Coleman, Ms. Stefanik, Mrs. Torres, Mr. Hultgren, Ms. Roybal-Allard, Mr. Katko, Mr. Weber of Texas, Mr. Zinke, Ms. Frankel of Florida, Ms. Jackson Lee, Ms. Meng, and Mr. King of New York) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 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 A BILL To direct the Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking to identify strategies to prevent children from becoming victims of trafficking and review trafficking prevention efforts, to protect and assist in the recovery of victims of trafficking, and for other purposes. 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Human Trafficking Prevention, Intervention, and Recovery Act of 2015. 2. Interagency task force report on child trafficking primary prevention (a) Review The Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking, established under section 105 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7103), shall conduct a review that, with regard to trafficking in persons in the United States— (1) in consultation with nongovernmental organizations that the Task Force determines appropriate, surveys and catalogues the activities of the Federal Government and State governments to deter individuals from committing trafficking offenses and to prevent children from becoming victims of trafficking; (2) surveys academic literature on deterring individuals from committing trafficking offenses, preventing children from becoming victims of trafficking, the commercial sexual exploitation of children, and other similar topics that the Task Force determines appropriate; (3) identifies best practices and effective strategies to deter individuals from committing trafficking offenses and to prevent children from becoming victims of trafficking; and (4) identifies current gaps in research and data that would be helpful in formulating effective strategies to deter individuals from committing trafficking offenses and to prevent children from becoming victims of trafficking. (b) Report Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking shall provide to Congress, and make publicly available in electronic format, a report on the review conducted pursuant to subparagraph (a). 3. GAO Report on intervention On the date that is one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the United States shall submit to Congress a report, which shall include— (1) information on the efforts of Federal and select State law enforcement agencies to combat human trafficking in the United States; and (2) information on each Federal grant program, a purpose of which is to combat human trafficking or assist victims of trafficking, as specified in an authorizing statute or in a guidance document issued by the agency carrying out the grant program. 4. Provision of housing permitted to protect and assist in the recovery of victims of trafficking Section 107(b)(2)(A) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7105(b)(2)(A)) is amended by inserting before the period at the end the following: , including programs that provide housing to victims of trafficking. 5. Victim of trafficking defined In this Act, the term victim of trafficking has the meaning given such term in section 103 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7102).