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118TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION S. 4534 

To establish a national human trafficking database at the Federal Bureau 

of Investigation, and to incentivize certain State law enforcement agencies 

to report data to the database. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

JUNE 13, 2024 

Mrs. BLACKBURN (for herself and Ms. KLOBUCHAR) introduced the following 

bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 

A BILL 

To establish a national human trafficking database at the 

Federal Bureau of Investigation, 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’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. NATIONAL HUMAN TRAFFICKING DATABASE. 

2 Title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe 

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

4 by adding at the end the following: 

5 ‘‘PART PP—NATIONAL HUMAN TRAFFICKING 

6 DATABASE 

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

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

9 ‘‘(1) ANTI-HUMAN TRAFFICKING ORGANIZA10 TION.—The term ‘anti-human trafficking organiza11 tion’ means an organization whose main objective is 

12 to address and combat human trafficking, including 

13 by— 

14 ‘‘(A) supporting populations known to be 

15 at a higher risk of human trafficking; 

16 ‘‘(B) raising awareness of human traf17 ficking; and 

18 ‘‘(C) providing services to survivors of 

19 human trafficking. 

20 ‘‘(2) COVERED STATE LAW ENFORCEMENT

21 AGENCY.—The term ‘covered State law enforcement 

22 agency’ means a State bureau of investigation or 

23 equivalent State law enforcement agency. 

24 ‘‘(3) DIRECTOR OF THE BUREAU.—The term 

25 ‘Director of the Bureau’ means the Director of the 

26 Federal Bureau of Investigation. 


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1 ‘‘(4) DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE.—The term 

2 ‘Director of the Office’ means the Director of the 

3 Office for Victims of Crime. 

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

5 trafficking’ means labor trafficking or sex traf6 ficking. 

7 ‘‘(6) HUMAN TRAFFICKING RISK ASSESSMENT

8 SCORE.—The term ‘human trafficking risk assess9 ment score’ means a score for a county that indi10 cates the presence and prevalence of the known risk 

11 factors and vulnerabilities that human traffickers ex12 ploit, including the following criteria: 

13 ‘‘(A) The presence and prevalence of cases 

14 of labor trafficking or sex trafficking, specifi15 cally indicated by— 

16 ‘‘(i) the number of prosecutions, ar17 rests, or convictions for human trafficking; 

18 ‘‘(ii) aggregated and anonymized data 

19 from State-level human trafficking hot20 lines; 

21 ‘‘(iii) aggregated and anonymized data 

22 from State-level children’s services agen23 cies; and 

24 ‘‘(iv) aggregated and anonymized 

25 human trafficking data from the Missing 


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1 and Murdered Unit of the Office of Justice 

2 Services of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. 

3 ‘‘(B) The presence and prevalence of crimi4 nal activity known to be correlated with human 

5 trafficking, including crimes of drug distribu6 tion, sexual assault, and gang-related violence. 

7 ‘‘(C) The number of survivors of human 

8 trafficking who have been served by nongovern9 mental human trafficking victim service organi10 zations. 

11 ‘‘(7) LABOR TRAFFICKING.—The term ‘labor 

12 trafficking’ means conduct described in section 

13 103(11)(B) of the Trafficking Victims Protection 

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

15 ‘‘(8) PRIMARY SERVICE.—With respect to an 

16 anti-human trafficking organization, the term ‘pri17 mary service’ means the essential function of the or18 ganization, which may be— 

19 ‘‘(A) preventing human trafficking; 

20 ‘‘(B) identifying survivors of human traf21 ficking; 

22 ‘‘(C) recovering survivors from human 

23 trafficking situations; or 

24 ‘‘(D) providing support for survivors to 

25 exit human trafficking situations. 


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1 ‘‘(9) SEX TRAFFICKING.—The term ‘sex traf2 ficking’ has the meaning given the term in section 

3 103 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 

4 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7102). 

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

6 ‘‘(1) GRANTS.— 

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

8 for which amounts are made available to carry 

9 out this section, the Director of the Office shall 

10 award grants to covered State law enforcement 

11 agencies to collect and report to the Director of 

12 the Bureau human trafficking data, directly or 

13 by contract with a private or nonprofit organi14 zation with expertise and experience in the col15 lection of human trafficking data, in accordance 

16 with subsection (c). 

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

18 enforcement agency seeking a grant under this 

19 subsection shall submit an application to the 

20 Director of the Office at such time, in such 

21 manner, and containing such information as the 

22 Director of the Office may reasonably require. 

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

24 law enforcement agency may not receive a grant 

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1 tifies to the Director of the Office that, not 

2 later than 180 days after the date on which the 

3 agency receives the grant, the agency will iden4 tify how the agency will collect or ensure the 

5 collection and reporting of human trafficking 

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

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

8 law enforcement agency may only use a grant 

9 received under subparagraph (A) to collect and 

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

11 ‘‘(2) GUIDANCE FOR RISK ASSESSMENT SCORE

12 AND USE OF GRANT FUNDS.—Not later than 180 

13 days after the date of enactment of the National 

14 Human Trafficking Database Act, the Director of 

15 the Office shall issue guidance that includes— 

16 ‘‘(A) the formula that a covered State law 

17 enforcement agency shall use to calculate the 

18 human trafficking risk assessment score for 

19 each county in the State; and 

20 ‘‘(B) goals and guidelines for the use of 

21 grants awarded under paragraph (1). 

22 ‘‘(c) DATABASE.— 

23 ‘‘(1) ESTABLISHMENT.— 

24 ‘‘(A) INITIAL SUBMISSION OF STATE

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


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1 enactment of the National Human Trafficking 

2 Database Act, each covered State law enforce3 ment agency that has received a grant under 

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

5 the Bureau, for the most recently ended fiscal 

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

7 State— 

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

9 ‘‘(I) the human trafficking risk 

10 assessment index score for each coun11 ty in the State; 

12 ‘‘(II) the name and primary serv13 ice of each anti-human trafficking or14 ganization operating in each county in 

15 the State; and 

16 ‘‘(III) the total number of State17 level human trafficking prosecutions, 

18 which the covered State law enforce19 ment agency shall compile by col20 lecting the necessary information from 

21 the prosecutor’s office for each county 

22 in the State, categorized by sex, race, 

23 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 Bureau shall publish on the 

8 internet website of the Federal Bureau of In9 vestigation a database that includes, for each 

10 State— 

11 ‘‘(i) the human trafficking risk assess12 ment index score for each county in the 

13 State, as reported by the covered State law 

14 enforcement agency under subparagraph 

15 (A)(i)(I); 

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

17 each anti-human trafficking organization 

18 operating in each county in the State, as 

19 reported by the covered State law enforce20 ment agency under subparagraph 

21 (A)(i)(II); 

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

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1 ment agency under subparagraph 

2 (A)(i)(III); 

3 ‘‘(iv) any statement from the covered 

4 State law enforcement agency of the State 

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

6 ‘‘(v)(I) except as provided in sub7 clause (II)— 

8 ‘‘(aa) the 10 counties in the 

9 State with the highest human traf10 ficking risk assessment index scores; 

11 and 

12 ‘‘(bb) the 10 counties in the 

13 State with the lowest human traf14 ficking risk assessment index scores; 

15 or 

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

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

18 ranked by human trafficking risk assess19 ment index score from highest to lowest. 

20 ‘‘(C) COLLECTION OF DATA ABOUT ANTI21 HUMAN TRAFFICKING ORGANIZATIONS.—In car22 rying out subparagraph (A)(ii), a covered State 

23 law enforcement agency may coordinate with— 

24 ‘‘(i) the Administration for Children 

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1 ator of the National Human Trafficking 

2 Hotline; 

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

4 and 

5 ‘‘(iii) the Bureau of Justice Statistics. 

6 ‘‘(2) ADMINISTRATION.— 

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

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

9 year, beginning with fiscal year 2025, each cov10 ered State law enforcement agency that received 

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

12 year shall report to the Director the data de13 scribed in paragraph (1)(A) of this subsection 

14 (and any statement described in clause (ii) of 

15 that paragraph, if applicable) for that fiscal 

16 year for the State. 

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

18 than 180 days after the last day of a fiscal 

19 year, beginning with fiscal year 2025, the Di20 rector of the Bureau shall update the database 

21 established under paragraph (1)(B) using the 

22 data provided by covered State law enforcement 

23 agencies for that fiscal year under paragraph 

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

25 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 a fiscal year, beginning with fiscal 

3 year 2025, the Director of the Bureau shall report 

4 to Congress the contents of the database established 

5 under 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) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 

14 are authorized to be appropriated— 

15 ‘‘(1) $50,000,000 to the Director of the Office 

16 for each of fiscal years 2025 through 2028 to carry 

17 out subsection (b); and 

18 ‘‘(2) $1,000,000 to the Director of the Bureau 

19 for each of fiscal years 2025 through 2028 to carry 

20 out subsection (c).’’. 

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