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116TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 508 

To require a study and report on the housing and service needs of victims 

of trafficking and individuals at risk for trafficking. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JANUARY 11, 2019 

Mrs. BEATTY (for herself and Mrs. WAGNER) introduced the following bill; 

which was referred to the Committee on Financial Services 

A BILL 

To require a study and report on the housing and service 

needs of victims of trafficking and individuals at risk 

for trafficking. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Trafficking Victims 

5 Housing Act of 2019’’. 

6 SEC. 2. STUDY AND REPORT ON HOUSING AND SERVICE 

7 NEEDS OF VICTIMS OF TRAFFICKING AND IN8 DIVIDUALS AT RISK FOR TRAFFICKING. 

9 (a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section, the terms ‘‘severe 

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1 ficking’’ have the meanings given those terms in section 

2 103 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 

3 U.S.C. 7102). 

4 (b) STUDY AND REPORT.—The United States Inter5 agency Council on Homelessness, in coordination with the 

6 United States Advisory Council on Human Trafficking, 

7 the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the 

8 Administration for Children and Families of the Depart9 ment of Health and Human Services, and the Department 

10 of Justice, and in consultation with the National Advisory 

11 Committee on Sex Trafficking of Children and Youth in 

12 the United States and direct service providers and housing 

13 and homelessness practitioners, shall conduct a study as14 sessing the availability and accessibility of housing and 

15 services for individuals experiencing homelessness who are 

16 victims of trafficking, victims of severe forms of traf17 ficking in persons, or at risk of being trafficked, which 

18 shall include— 

19 (1) an evaluation of formal assessments and 

20 outreach methods used to identify and assess the 

21 housing and service needs of those individuals; 

22 (2) a review of the availability and accessibility 

23 of homelessness or housing services for those individ24 uals, including the families of those individuals who 


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1 are minors and youth involved in foster care sys2 tems; 

3 (3) the effect of any policies and procedures of 

4 mainstream homelessness or housing services that 

5 facilitate or limit their availability and accessibility 

6 for those individuals, as those services are in effect 

7 as of the date on which the report is submitted; 

8 (4) an assessment of the ability of mainstream 

9 homelessness or housing services to meet the special10 ized needs of victims of trafficking, including trauma 

11 responsive approaches specific to labor and sex traf12 ficking victims; 

13 (5) an evaluation of the effectiveness of and in14 frastructure considerations for housing and service15 delivery models that are specific to victims of severe 

16 forms of trafficking in persons, including emergency 

17 rental assistance models; and 

18 (6) an identification of best practices in meet19 ing the housing and service needs of those individ20 uals. 

21 (c) REPORT SUBMISSIONS.—The United States 

22 Interagency Council on Homelessness shall submit to the 

23 Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of 

24 the Senate and the Committee on Financial Services of 

25 the House of Representatives— 


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1 (1) not later than 18 months after the date of 

2 the enactment of this Act, an interim report con3 taining the information described in paragraphs (1) 

4 through (5) of subsection (b); and 

5 (2) not later than 36 months after the date of 

6 the enactment of this Act, a final report con7 taining— 

8 (A) the information described in para9 graphs (1) through (6) of subsection (b); and 

10 (B) any updates to the information con11 tained in the interim report submitted under 

12 paragraph (1). 

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