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118TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 10029 

To establish a national human trafficking database at the Department of 

Justice, and to incentivize certain State law enforcement agencies to 

report data to the database. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

OCTOBER 22, 2024 

Mr. KILEY (for himself, Ms. CARAVEO, Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia, and Ms. 

HAGEMAN) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 

A BILL 

To establish a national human trafficking database at the 

Department of Justice, and to incentivize certain State 

law enforcement agencies to report data to the database. 

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 ‘‘National Human Traf5 ficking Database Act’’. 

6 SEC. 2. NATIONAL HUMAN TRAFFICKING DATABASE. 

7 Title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe 

8 Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10101 et seq.) is amended 

9 by adding at the end the following: 


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1 ‘‘PART PP—NATIONAL HUMAN TRAFFICKING 

2 DATABASE 

3 ‘‘SEC. 3061. NATIONAL HUMAN TRAFFICKING DATABASE. 

4 ‘‘(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 

5 ‘‘(1) ANTI-HUMAN TRAFFICKING ORGANIZA6 TION.—The term ‘anti-human trafficking organiza7 tion’ means an organization whose main objective is 

8 to address and combat human trafficking, including 

9 by— 

10 ‘‘(A) supporting populations known to be 

11 at a higher risk of human trafficking; 

12 ‘‘(B) raising awareness of human traf13 ficking; and 

14 ‘‘(C) providing services to survivors of 

15 human trafficking. 

16 ‘‘(2) COVERED STATE LAW ENFORCEMENT

17 AGENCY.—The term ‘covered State law enforcement 

18 agency’ means a State bureau of investigation or 

19 equivalent State law enforcement agency. 

20 ‘‘(3) DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE.—The term 

21 ‘Director of the Office’ means the Director of the 

22 Office for Victims of Crime. 

23 ‘‘(4) HUMAN TRAFFICKING.—The term ‘human 

24 trafficking’ means labor trafficking or sex traf25 ficking. 


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1 ‘‘(5) LABOR TRAFFICKING.—The term ‘labor 

2 trafficking’ means conduct described in section 

3 103(11)(B) of the Trafficking Victims Protection 

4 Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7102(11)(B)). 

5 ‘‘(6) PRIMARY SERVICE.—With respect to an 

6 anti-human trafficking organization, the term ‘pri7 mary service’ means the essential function of the or8 ganization, which may be— 

9 ‘‘(A) preventing human trafficking; 

10 ‘‘(B) identifying survivors of human traf11 ficking; 

12 ‘‘(C) recovering survivors from human 

13 trafficking situations; or 

14 ‘‘(D) providing support for survivors to 

15 exit human trafficking situations. 

16 ‘‘(7) SEX TRAFFICKING.—The term ‘sex traf17 ficking’ has the meaning given the term in section 

18 103(11)(A) of the Trafficking Victims Protection 

19 Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7102(11)(A)). 

20 ‘‘(b) DUTIES OF OFFICE FOR VICTIMS OF CRIME.— 

21 ‘‘(1) GRANTS.— 

22 ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—For each fiscal year 

23 for which amounts are made available to carry 

24 out this section, the Director of the Office shall 

25 award grants to covered State law enforcement 


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1 agencies to collect and report to the Director of 

2 the Office human trafficking data, directly or 

3 by contract with a private or nonprofit organi4 zation with expertise and experience in the col5 lection of human trafficking data, in accordance 

6 with subsection (c). 

7 ‘‘(B) APPLICATION.—A covered State law 

8 enforcement agency seeking a grant under this 

9 subsection shall submit an application to the 

10 Director of the Office at such time, in such 

11 manner, and containing such information as the 

12 Director of the Office may reasonably require. 

13 ‘‘(C) GRANT CONDITION.—A covered State 

14 law enforcement agency may not receive a grant 

15 under subparagraph (A) unless the agency cer16 tifies to the Director of the Office that, not 

17 later than 180 days after the date on which the 

18 agency receives the grant, the agency will iden19 tify how the agency will collect or ensure the 

20 collection and reporting of human trafficking 

21 data described in subsection (c)(1)(A). 

22 ‘‘(D) USE OF GRANT.—A covered State 

23 law enforcement agency may only use a grant 

24 received under subparagraph (A) to collect and 

25 report the data described in section (c)(1)(A). 


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1 ‘‘(2) GUIDANCE FOR USE OF GRANT FUNDS.— 

2 Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment 

3 of the National Human Trafficking Database Act, 

4 the Director of the Office shall issue guidance that 

5 includes goals and guidelines for the use of grants 

6 awarded under paragraph (1). 

7 ‘‘(c) DATABASE.— 

8 ‘‘(1) ESTABLISHMENT.— 

9 ‘‘(A) INITIAL SUBMISSION OF STATE

10 DATA.—Not later than 1 year after the date of 

11 enactment of the National Human Trafficking 

12 Database Act, each covered State law enforce13 ment agency that has received a grant under 

14 subsection (b)(1) shall report to the Director of 

15 the Office, for the most recently ended fiscal 

16 year (as of that date of enactment) for the 

17 State— 

18 ‘‘(i) where such data is available— 

19 ‘‘(I) with respect to each county 

20 in the State, data on— 

21 ‘‘(aa) the presence and prev22 alence of cases of labor traf23 ficking or sex trafficking, specifi24 cally indicated by— 


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1 ‘‘(AA) the number of 

2 prosecutions, arrests, or con3 victions for human traf4 ficking; 

5 ‘‘(BB) aggregated and 

6 anonymized data from 

7 State-level human traf8 ficking hotlines; 

9 ‘‘(CC) aggregated and 

10 anonymized data from the 

11 National Human Trafficking 

12 Hotline, operated by the Ad13 ministration for Children 

14 and Families; 

15 ‘‘(DD) aggregated and 

16 anonymized data from 

17 State-level children’s services 

18 agencies; and 

19 ‘‘(EE) aggregated and 

20 anonymized human traf21 ficking data from the Miss22 ing and Murdered Unit of 

23 the Office of Justice Serv24 ices of the Bureau of Indian 

25 Affairs; 


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1 ‘‘(bb) the presence and prev2 alence of criminal activity known 

3 to be correlated with human traf4 ficking, including crimes of pros5 titution, drug distribution, sexual 

6 assault, and gang-related vio7 lence; and 

8 ‘‘(cc) the number of sur9 vivors of human trafficking who 

10 have been served by nongovern11 mental human trafficking victim 

12 service organizations; 

13 ‘‘(II) the name and primary serv14 ice of each anti-human trafficking or15 ganization operating in each county in 

16 the State; and 

17 ‘‘(III) the total number of State18 level human trafficking prosecutions, 

19 which the covered State law enforce20 ment agency shall compile by col21 lecting the necessary information from 

22 the prosecutor’s office for each county 

23 in the State, categorized by sex, race, 

24 citizenship, and prior convictions; and 


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1 ‘‘(ii) if any data described in clause (i) 

2 is not available, a statement explaining 

3 why the data is not available. 

4 ‘‘(B) ESTABLISHMENT.—Not later than 18 

5 months after the date of enactment of the Na6 tional Human Trafficking Database Act, the 

7 Director of the Office shall publish on the inter8 net website of the Department of Justice a 

9 database that includes, for each State— 

10 ‘‘(i) the data for each county in the 

11 State, as reported by the covered State law 

12 enforcement agency under subparagraph 

13 (A)(i)(I); 

14 ‘‘(ii) the name and primary service of 

15 each anti-human trafficking organization 

16 operating in each county in the State, as 

17 reported by the covered State law enforce18 ment agency under subparagraph 

19 (A)(i)(II); 

20 ‘‘(iii) the total number of State-level 

21 human trafficking prosecutions, as re22 ported by the covered State law enforce23 ment agency under subparagraph 

24 (A)(i)(III); 


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1 ‘‘(iv) any statement from the covered 

2 State law enforcement agency of the State 

3 described in subparagraph (A)(ii); and 

4 ‘‘(v)(I) except as provided in sub5 clause (II)— 

6 ‘‘(aa) the 10 counties in the 

7 State with the highest rates of human 

8 trafficking; and 

9 ‘‘(bb) the 10 counties in the 

10 State with the lowest rates of human 

11 trafficking; or 

12 ‘‘(II) if the State has fewer than 20 

13 counties, a list of the counties in the State, 

14 ranked by rate of human trafficking from 

15 highest to lowest. 

16 ‘‘(C) COLLECTION OF DATA ABOUT ANTI17 HUMAN TRAFFICKING ORGANIZATIONS.—In car18 rying out subparagraph (A)(ii), a covered State 

19 law enforcement agency may coordinate with— 

20 ‘‘(i) the Administration for Children 

21 and Families, in its capacity as the oper22 ator of the National Human Trafficking 

23 Hotline; 

24 ‘‘(ii) the Office for Victims of Crime; 


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1 ‘‘(iii) the Bureau of Justice Statistics; 

2 and 

3 ‘‘(iv) a relevant State-level human 

4 trafficking task force. 

5 ‘‘(2) ADMINISTRATION.— 

6 ‘‘(A) SUBMISSION OF STATE DATA.—Not 

7 later than 90 days after the last day of a fiscal 

8 year, beginning with fiscal year 2025, each cov9 ered State law enforcement agency that received 

10 a grant under subsection (b)(1) for that fiscal 

11 year shall report to the Director of the Office 

12 the data described in paragraph (1)(A) of this 

13 subsection (and any statement described in 

14 clause (ii) of that paragraph, if applicable) for 

15 that fiscal year for the State. 

16 ‘‘(B) UPDATING DATABASE.—Not later 

17 than 180 days after the last day of a fiscal 

18 year, beginning with fiscal year 2025, the At19 torney General shall update the database estab20 lished under paragraph (1)(B) using the data 

21 provided by covered State law enforcement 

22 agencies for that fiscal year under paragraph 

23 (1)(A) (and including any statements described 

24 in clause (ii) of that paragraph, if applicable). 


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1 ‘‘(3) REPORT.—Not later than 180 days after 

2 the last day of each fiscal year, beginning with fiscal 

3 year 2025, the Attorney General shall report to Con4 gress the contents of the database established under 

5 paragraph (1)(B) for that fiscal year. 

6 ‘‘(d) SURVIVOR CONFIDENTIALITY.—In order to en7 sure the safety of adult, youth, and child survivors of 

8 human trafficking and their families, a covered State law 

9 enforcement agency that receives a grant under subsection 

10 (b)(1), in collecting and reporting data under this section, 

11 shall protect the confidentiality and privacy of those sur12 vivors and their families. 

13 ‘‘(e) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this sec14 tion shall be construed as permitting the Department of 

15 Justice to make any funding decisions based on the col16 lected data described in subsection (c). 

17 ‘‘(f) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.— 

18 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—There are authorized to be 

19 appropriated $51,000,000 to the Director of the Of20 fice for each of fiscal years 2025 through 2028 to 

21 carry out subsection (b). 

22 ‘‘(2) AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS.—The amounts 

23 authorized under paragraph (1) shall remain avail24 able until expended.’’. 

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