In the Senate of the United States, 

December 20 (legislative day, December 19), 2018. 

Resolved, That the bill from the House of Representatives (H.R. 767) entitled ‘‘An Act to establish the Stop, Observe, Ask, and Respond to Health and Wellness Training 

pilot program to address human trafficking in the health care 

system.’’, do pass with the following 

AMENDMENT: 

Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the 

following: 

1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

2 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Stop, Observe, Ask, and 

3 Respond to Health and Wellness Act of 2018’’ or the ‘‘SOAR 

4 to Health and Wellness Act of 2018’’. 

5 SEC. 2. PROGRAM ESTABLISHMENT. 

6 Part E of title XII of the Public Health Service Act 

7 (42 U.S.C. 300d–51 et seq.) is amended by adding at the 

8 end the following: 
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1 ‘‘SEC. 1254. STOP, OBSERVE, ASK, AND RESPOND TO 

2 HEALTH AND WELLNESS TRAINING PRO3 GRAM. 

4 ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall establish a 

5 program to be known as the Stop, Observe, Ask, and Re6 spond to Health and Wellness Training Program or the 

7 SOAR to Health and Wellness Training Program (in this 

8 section referred to as the ‘Program’) to provide training to 

9 health care and social service providers on human traf10 ficking in accordance with this section. 

11 ‘‘(b) ACTIVITIES.— 

12 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Program shall include 

13 the Stop, Observe, Ask, and Respond to Health and 

14 Wellness Training Program’s activities existing on 

15 the day before the date of enactment of this section 

16 and the authorized initiatives described in paragraph 

17 (2). 

18 ‘‘(2) AUTHORIZED INITIATIVES.—The authorized 

19 initiatives of the Program shall include— 

20 ‘‘(A) engaging stakeholders, including vic21 tims of human trafficking and Federal, State, 

22 local, and tribal partners, to develop a flexible 

23 training module— 

24 ‘‘(i) for supporting activities under 

25 subsection (c); and 
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1 ‘‘(ii) that adapts to changing needs, 

2 settings, health care providers, and social 

3 service providers; 

4 ‘‘(B) providing technical assistance to 

5 grantees related to implementing activities de6 scribed in subsection (c) and reporting on any 

7 best practices identified by the grantees; 

8 ‘‘(C) developing a reliable methodology for 

9 collecting data, and reporting such data, on the 

10 number of human trafficking victims identified 

11 and served by grantees in a manner that, at a 

12 minimum, prevents disclosure of individually 

13 identifiable information consistent with all ap14 plicable privacy laws and regulations; and 

15 ‘‘(D) integrating, as appropriate, the train16 ing described in paragraphs (1) through (4) of 

17 subsection (c) with training programs, in effect 

18 on the date of enactment of this section, for 

19 health care and social service providers for vic20 tims of intimate partner violence, sexual assault, 

21 stalking, child abuse, child neglect, child mal22 treatment, and child sexual exploitation. 

23 ‘‘(c) GRANTS.—The Secretary may award grants to 

24 appropriate entities to train health care and social service 

25 providers to— 
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1 ‘‘(1) identify potential human trafficking vic2 tims; 

3 ‘‘(2) implement best practices for working with 

4 law enforcement to report and facilitate communica5 tion with human trafficking victims, in accordance 

6 with all applicable Federal, State, local, and tribal 

7 laws, including legal confidentiality requirements for 

8 patients and health care and social service providers; 

9 ‘‘(3) implement best practices for referring such 

10 victims to appropriate health care, social, or victims 

11 service agencies or organizations; and 

12 ‘‘(4) provide such victims with coordinated, age13 appropriate, culturally relevant, trauma-informed, 

14 patient-centered, and evidence-based care. 

15 ‘‘(d) CONSIDERATION IN AWARDING GRANTS.—The 

16 Secretary, in making awards under this section, shall give 

17 consideration to— 

18 ‘‘(1) geography; 

19 ‘‘(2) the demographics of the population to be 

20 served; 

21 ‘‘(3) the predominant types of human trafficking 

22 cases involved; and 

23 ‘‘(4) health care and social service provider pro24 files. 

25 ‘‘(e) DATA COLLECTION AND REPORTING.— 
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1 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall collect 

2 data and report on the following: 

3 ‘‘(A) The total number of entities that re4 ceived a grant under this section. 

5 ‘‘(B) The total number and geographic dis6 tribution of health care and social service pro7 viders trained through the Program. 

8 ‘‘(2) INITIAL REPORT.—In addition to the data 

9 required to be collected under paragraph (1), for pur10 poses of the initial report to be submitted under para11 graph (3), the Secretary shall collect data on the total 

12 number of facilities and health care professional orga13 nizations that were operating under, and the total 

14 number of health care and social service providers 

15 trained through, the Stop, Observe, Ask, and Respond 

16 to Health and Wellness Training Program existing 

17 prior to the establishment of the Program under this 

18 section. 

19 ‘‘(3) ANNUAL REPORT.—Not later than 1 year 

20 after the date of enactment of this section, and annu21 ally thereafter, the Secretary shall submit an annual 

22 report to Congress on the data collected under this 

23 subsection in a manner that, at a minimum, prevents 

24 the disclosure of individually identifiable information 
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1 consistent with all applicable privacy laws and regu2 lations. 

3 ‘‘(f) SHARING BEST PRACTICES.—The Secretary shall 

4 make available, on the Internet website of the Department 

5 of Health and Human Services, a description of the best 

6 practices and procedures used by entities that receive a 

7 grant for carrying out activities under this section. 

8 ‘‘(g) DEFINITION.—In this section, the term ‘human 

9 trafficking’ has the meaning given the term ‘severe forms 

10 of trafficking in persons’ as defined in section 103 of the 

11 Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000. 

12 ‘‘(h) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is 

13 authorized to be appropriated to carry out this Act, 

14 $4,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2020 through 2024.’’. 

Attest: 

Secretary. 

115TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H.R. 767 

AMENDMENT