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113TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 906 

To amend title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 

1968 to provide for improvements under the Edward Byrne Memorial 

Justice Assistance Grant Program to reduce racial and ethnic disparities 

in the criminal justice system and to amend the Omnibus Crime Control 

and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to include human trafficking as a part 

1 violent crime for purposes of the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice 

Assistance Grant Program. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

FEBRUARY 28, 2013 

Mr. CARTER (for himself, Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York, Mr. POE

of Texas, Mr. BLUMENAUER, and Mr. SMITH of New Jersey) introduced 

the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 

A BILL 

To amend title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe 

Streets Act of 1968 to provide for improvements under 

the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant 

Program to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in the 

criminal justice system and to amend the Omnibus Crime 

Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to include human 

trafficking as a part 1 violent crime for purposes of 

the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant 

Program. 

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 Reporting Act’’. 

4 SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 

5 Congress finds the following: 

6 (1) Human trafficking is a form of modern-day 

7 slavery. 

8 (2) According to the Trafficking Victims Pro9 tection Act of 2000 ‘‘severe forms of trafficking in 

10 persons’’ means— 

11 (A) sex trafficking in which a commercial 

12 sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, 

13 or in which the person induced to perform such 

14 act has not attained 18 years of age; or 

15 (B) the recruitment, harboring, transpor16 tation, provision, or obtaining of a person for 

17 labor or services, through the use of force, 

18 fraud, or coercion for the purpose of subjection 

19 to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, 

20 or slavery. 

21 (3) There is an acute need for better data col22 lection of incidents of human trafficking across the 

23 United States in order to effectively combat severe 

24 forms of trafficking in persons. 

25 (4) The State Department’s 2011 Trafficking 

26 in Persons report found that— 


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1 (A) the United States is a ‘‘source, transit 

2 and destination country for men, women, and 

3 children, subjected to forced labor, debt bond4 age, domestic servitude and sex trafficking,’’; 

5 and 

6 (B) the United States needs to ‘‘improve 

7 data collection on human trafficking cases at 

8 the federal, state and local levels’’. 

9 (5) The International Organization for Migra10 tion has reported that in order to effectively combat 

11 human trafficking there must be reliable and stand12 ardized data, however, the following barriers for 

13 data collection exist: 

14 (A) The illicit and underground nature of 

15 human trafficking. 

16 (B) The reluctance of victims to share in17 formation with authorities. 

18 (C) Insufficient human trafficking data 

19 collection and research efforts by governments 

20 world-wide. 

21 (6) A 2009 report to the Department of Health 

22 and Human Services entitled Human Trafficking 

23 Into and Within the United States: A Review of the 

24 Literature found that ‘‘the data and methodologies 

25 for estimating the prevalence of human trafficking 


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1 globally and nationally are not well developed, and 

2 therefore estimates have varied widely and changed 

3 significantly over time’’. 

4 (7) The Federal Bureau of Investigation com5 piles national crime statistics through the Uniform 

6 Crime Reporting Program. 

7 (8) Under current law, State and local govern8 ments receiving Edward Byrne Memorial Justice As9 sistance grants are required to share data on part 

10 1 violent crimes with the Federal Bureau of Inves11 tigation for inclusion in the Uniform Crime Report12 ing Program. 

13 (9) The addition of severe forms of trafficking 

14 in persons to the definition of part 1 violent crimes 

15 will ensure that statistics on this heinous crime will 

16 be compiled and available through the Federal Bu17 reau of Investigation’s Uniform Crime Report. 

18 SEC. 3. HUMAN TRAFFICKING TO BE INCLUDED IN PART 1 

19 VIOLENT CRIMES FOR PURPOSES OF BYRNE 

20 GRANTS. 

21 Section 505 of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe 

22 Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3755) is amended by add23 ing at the end the following new subsection: 

24 ‘‘(i) PART 1 VIOLENT CRIMES TO INCLUDE HUMAN

25 TRAFFICKING.—For purposes of this section, the term 


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1 ‘part 1 violent crimes’ shall include severe forms of traf2 ficking in persons, as defined in section 103(8) of the 

3 Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000.’’. 

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