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112TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. 1362 

To simplify the Trafficking in Persons Report by reducing the number of 

country categories and ranking countries within each category according 

to their relative adherence to the minimum standards set forth in section 

108 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7106). 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

JULY 13, 2011 

Mr. WEBB introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred 

to the Committee on Foreign Relations 

A BILL 

To simplify the Trafficking in Persons Report by reducing 

the number of country categories and ranking countries 

within each category according to their relative adherence 

to the minimum standards set forth in section 108 of 

the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 

U.S.C. 7106). 

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 in Persons 

5 Report Improvement Act of 2011’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT. 

2 Section 110 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act 

3 of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7107) is amended— 

4 (1) by striking subsection (b) and inserting the 

5 following: 

6 ‘‘(b) ANNUAL REPORT.—Not later than June 1 of 

7 each year, the Secretary of State shall submit a report 

8 to the appropriate congressional committees that describes 

9 the anti-trafficking efforts of the United States and for10 eign governments according to the minimum standards 

11 and criteria set forth in section 108, the nature and scope 

12 of trafficking in persons in each country, and analyzes the 

13 trend lines for individual governmental efforts. The report 

14 shall include— 

15 ‘‘(1) a list of countries whose governments are 

16 in full compliance with the applicable minimum 

17 standards set forth in section 108, ranked on a sin18 gle scale according to their relative adherence to 

19 such standards; 

20 ‘‘(2) a list of countries whose governments are 

21 not in full compliance with such standards, ranked 

22 on a single scale according to their relative adher23 ence to such standards; 

24 ‘‘(3) a section entitled ‘Exemplary Governments 

25 and Practices in the Eradication of Trafficking in 

26 Persons’ that highlights— 


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1 ‘‘(A) effective practices and use of innova2 tion and technology in prevention, protection, 

3 prosecution, and partnerships, including by for4 eign governments, the private sector, and do5 mestic civil society actors; and 

6 ‘‘(B) governments that have shown exem7 plary overall efforts to combat trafficking in 

8 persons; 

9 ‘‘(4) information on the measures taken by the 

10 United Nations, the Organization for Security and 

11 Cooperation in Europe, the North Atlantic Treaty 

12 Organization, and, as appropriate, other multilateral 

13 organizations in which the United States partici14 pates, to prevent the involvement of the organiza15 tion’s employees, contractor personnel, and peace16 keeping forces in trafficking in persons or the exploi17 tation of victims of trafficking; 

18 ‘‘(5) reporting and analysis on the emergence or 

19 shifting of global patterns in human trafficking, in20 cluding data on the number of victims trafficked to, 

21 through, or from major source and destination coun22 tries, disaggregated by nationality, gender, and age, 

23 to the extent possible; and 

24 ‘‘(6) emerging issues in human trafficking.’’; 

25 and 


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1 (2) in subsection (c)— 

2 (A) by striking ‘‘Not less’’ and inserting 

3 the following: 

4 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Not fewer’’; 

5 (B) by striking ‘‘, on or after January 1, 

6 2003, of an annual report under subsection 

7 (b)(1) of this section, or an interim report 

8 under subsection (b)(2) of this section,’’ and in9 serting ‘‘of an annual report under subsection 

10 (b),’’; 

11 (C) in subparagraph (B), by striking ‘‘, as 

12 described in subsection (b)(1)(C) of this sec13 tion’’; and 

14 (D) by adding at the end the following: 

15 ‘‘(2) SIGNIFICANT EFFORTS.—In determining 

16 under paragraph (1)(B) whether the government of 

17 a country is making significant efforts to bring itself 

18 into compliance with the minimum standards set 

19 forth in section 108, the Secretary of State shall 

20 consider— 

21 ‘‘(A) the extent to which the country is a 

22 country of origin, transit, or destination for se23 vere forms of trafficking; 

24 ‘‘(B) the extent of noncompliance with the 

25 minimum standards by the government and the 


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1 extent to which officials or employees of the 

2 government have participated in, facilitated, 

3 condoned, or are otherwise complicit in severe 

4 forms of trafficking; and 

5 ‘‘(C) what measures are reasonable to 

6 bring the government into compliance with the 

7 minimum standards in light of the resources 

8 and capabilities of the government.’’. 

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