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114TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 460 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

JANUARY 28, 2015 

Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and 

Governmental Affairs 

AN ACT 

To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to train Department of Homeland Security personnel how to effectively deter, detect, disrupt, and prevent human trafficking during the course of their primary roles and 

responsibilities, and for other purposes. 

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


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1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

2 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Human Trafficking 

3 Detection Act of 2015’’. 

4 SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 

5 In this Act: 

6 (1) DEPARTMENT.—The term ‘‘Department’’ 

7 means the Department of Homeland Security. 

8 (2) HUMAN TRAFFICKING.—The term ‘‘human 

9 trafficking’’ means an act or practice described in 

10 paragraph (9) or (10) of section 103 of the Traf11 ficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 

12 7102). 

13 (3) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 

14 the Secretary of Homeland Security. 

15 SEC. 3. TRAINING FOR DEPARTMENT PERSONNEL TO IDEN16 TIFY HUMAN TRAFFICKING. 

17 (a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days after the 

18 date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall imple19 ment a program to— 

20 (1) train and periodically retrain relevant 

21 Transportation Security Administration, U.S. Cus22 toms and Border Protection, and other Department 

23 personnel that the Secretary considers appropriate, 

24 how to effectively deter, detect, and disrupt human 

25 trafficking, and, where appropriate, interdict a sus26 pected perpetrator of human trafficking, during the 


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1 course of their primary roles and responsibilities; 

2 and 

3 (2) ensure that the personnel referred to in 

4 paragraph (1) regularly receive current information 

5 on matters related to the detection of human traf6 ficking, including information that becomes available 

7 outside of the Department’s initial or periodic re8 training schedule, to the extent relevant to their offi9 cial duties and consistent with applicable informa10 tion and privacy laws. 

11 (b) TRAINING DESCRIBED.—The training referred to 

12 in subsection (a) may be conducted through in-class or 

13 virtual learning capabilities, and shall include— 

14 (1) methods for identifying suspected victims of 

15 human trafficking and, where appropriate, perpetra16 tors of human trafficking; 

17 (2) for appropriate personnel, methods to ap18 proach a suspected victim of human trafficking, 

19 where appropriate, in a manner that is sensitive to 

20 the suspected victim and is not likely to alert a sus21 pected perpetrator of human trafficking; 

22 (3) training that is most appropriate for a par23 ticular location or environment in which the per24 sonnel receiving such training perform their official 

25 duties; 


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1 (4) other topics determined by the Secretary to 

2 be appropriate; and 

3 (5) a post-training evaluation for personnel re4 ceiving the training. 

5 (c) TRAINING CURRICULUM REVIEW.—The Secretary 

6 shall annually reassess the training program established 

7 under subsection (a) to ensure it is consistent with current 

8 techniques, patterns, and trends associated with human 

9 trafficking. 

10 SEC. 4. CERTIFICATION AND REPORT TO CONGRESS. 

11 (a) CERTIFICATION.—Not later than 1 year after the 

12 date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall cer13 tify to the appropriate congressional committees that all 

14 personnel referred to in section 3(a) have successfully 

15 completed the training required under that section. 

16 (b) REPORT TO CONGRESS.—Not later than 1 year 

17 after the date of the enactment of this Act and annually 

18 thereafter, the Secretary shall report to the appropriate 

19 congressional committees the overall effectiveness of the 

20 program required by this Act, the number of cases re21 ported by Department personnel in which human traf22 ficking was suspected and, of those cases, the number of 

23 cases that were confirmed cases of such trafficking. 


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1 SEC. 5. ASSISTANCE TO NON-FEDERAL ENTITIES. 

2 The Secretary may provide training curricula to any 

3 State, local, or tribal government or private organization 

4 to assist such entity in establishing its program of training 

5 to identify human trafficking, upon request from such en6 tity. 

Passed the House of Representatives January 27, 

2015. 

Attest: KAREN L. HAAS, 

Clerk. 


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