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113TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 5135 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

JULY 24, 2014 

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. 


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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 ‘‘Human Trafficking 

5 Prevention, Intervention, and Recovery Act of 2014’’. 

6 SEC. 2. INTERAGENCY TASK FORCE REPORT ON CHILD 

7 TRAFFICKING PRIMARY PREVENTION. 

8 (a) REVIEW.—The Interagency Task Force to Mon9 itor and Combat Trafficking, established under section 

10 105 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 

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

12 trafficking in persons in the United States— 

13 (1) in consultation with nongovernmental orga14 nizations that the Task Force determines appro15 priate, surveys and catalogues the activities of the 

16 Federal Government and State governments to deter 

17 individuals from committing trafficking offenses and 

18 to prevent children from becoming victims of traf19 ficking; 

20 (2) surveys academic literature on deterring in21 dividuals from committing trafficking offenses, pre22 venting children from becoming victims of traf23 ficking, the commercial sexual exploitation of chil24 dren, and other similar topics that the Task Force 

25 determines appropriate; 


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1 (3) identifies best practices and effective strate2 gies to deter individuals from committing trafficking 

3 offenses and to prevent children from becoming vic4 tims of trafficking; and 

5 (4) identifies current gaps in research and data 

6 that would be helpful in formulating effective strate7 gies to deter individuals from committing trafficking 

8 offenses and to prevent children from becoming vic9 tims of trafficking. 

10 (b) REPORT.—Not later than one year after the date 

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

12 to Monitor and Combat Trafficking shall provide to Con13 gress, and make publicly available in electronic format, a 

14 report on the review conducted pursuant to subparagraph 

15 (a). 

16 SEC. 3. GAO REPORT ON INTERVENTION. 

17 On the date that is one year after the date of the 

18 enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the 

19 United States shall submit to Congress a report, which 

20 shall include— 

21 (1) information on the efforts of Federal and 

22 select State law enforcement agencies to combat 

23 human trafficking in the United States; and 

24 (2) information on each Federal grant program, 

25 a purpose of which is to combat human trafficking 


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1 or assist victims of trafficking, as specified in an au2 thorizing statute or in a guidance document issued 

3 by the agency carrying out the grant program. 

4 SEC. 4. PROVISION OF HOUSING PERMITTED TO PROTECT 

5 AND ASSIST IN THE RECOVERY OF VICTIMS 

6 OF TRAFFICKING. 

7 Section 107(b)(2)(A) of the Trafficking Victims Pro8 tection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7105(b)(2)(A)) is amended 

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

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

11 trafficking’’. 

12 SEC. 5. VICTIM OF TRAFFICKING DEFINED. 

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

14 the meaning given such term in section 103 of the Traf15 ficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7102). 

Passed the House of Representatives July 23, 2014. 

Attest: KAREN L. HAAS, 

Clerk. 


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