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114TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 350 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

JANUARY 28, 2015 

Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 

AN ACT 

To direct the Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking to identify strategies to prevent children 

from becoming victims of trafficking and review trafficking prevention efforts, to protect and assist in the 

recovery of victims of trafficking, 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 Prevention, Intervention, and Recovery Act of 2015’’. 

4 SEC. 2. INTERAGENCY TASK FORCE REPORT ON CHILD 

5 TRAFFICKING PRIMARY PREVENTION. 

6 (a) REVIEW.—The Interagency Task Force to Mon7 itor and Combat Trafficking, established under section 

8 105 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 

9 U.S.C. 7103), shall conduct a review that, with regard to 

10 trafficking in persons in the United States— 

11 (1) in consultation with nongovernmental orga12 nizations that the Task Force determines appro13 priate, surveys and catalogues the activities of the 

14 Federal Government and State governments to deter 

15 individuals from committing trafficking offenses and 

16 to prevent children from becoming victims of traf17 ficking; 

18 (2) surveys academic literature on deterring in19 dividuals from committing trafficking offenses, pre20 venting children from becoming victims of traf21 ficking, the commercial sexual exploitation of chil22 dren, and other similar topics that the Task Force 

23 determines appropriate; 

24 (3) identifies best practices and effective strate25 gies to deter individuals from committing trafficking 


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1 offenses and to prevent children from becoming vic2 tims of trafficking; and 

3 (4) identifies current gaps in research and data 

4 that would be helpful in formulating effective strate5 gies to deter individuals from committing trafficking 

6 offenses and to prevent children from becoming vic7 tims of trafficking. 

8 (b) REPORT.—Not later than 1 year after the date 

9 of the enactment of this Act, the Interagency Task Force 

10 to Monitor and Combat Trafficking shall provide to Con11 gress, and make publicly available in electronic format, a 

12 report on the review conducted pursuant to subparagraph 

13 (a). 

14 SEC. 3. GAO REPORT ON INTERVENTION. 

15 On the date that is 1 year after the date of the enact16 ment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the United 

17 States shall submit to Congress a report, which shall in18 clude— 

19 (1) information on the efforts of Federal and 

20 select State law enforcement agencies to combat 

21 human trafficking in the United States; and 

22 (2) information on each Federal grant program, 

23 a purpose of which is to combat human trafficking 

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1 thorizing statute or in a guidance document issued 

2 by the agency carrying out the grant program. 

3 SEC. 4. PROVISION OF HOUSING PERMITTED TO PROTECT 

4 AND ASSIST IN THE RECOVERY OF VICTIMS 

5 OF TRAFFICKING. 

6 Section 107(b)(2)(A) of the Trafficking Victims Pro7 tection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7105(b)(2)(A)) is amended 

8 by inserting before the period at the end the following: 

9 ‘‘, including programs that provide housing to victims of 

10 trafficking’’. 

11 SEC. 5. VICTIM OF TRAFFICKING DEFINED. 

12 In this Act, the term ‘‘victim of trafficking’’ has the 

13 meaning given such term in section 103 of the Trafficking 

14 Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7102). 

Passed the House of Representatives January 27, 

2015. 

Attest: KAREN L. HAAS, 

Clerk. 


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