I 
114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2385 
To require certain large companies to submit to an independent annual 
audit of their supply chains to verify that their supply chains are free 
of child and forced labor. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 15, 2015 
Mr. VARGAS introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Energy and Commerce 
A BILL 
To require certain large companies to submit to an inde-
pendent annual audit of their supply chains to verify 
that their supply chains are free of child and forced 
labor. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Stop Blood Tomatoes 
Act’’. 
SEC. 2. AUDIT OF SUPPLY CHAIN REQUIRED. 
(a) REQUIRED AUDIT.—Each public or private com-
pany that produces or sells products in interstate com-
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merce that has gross annual revenues in excess of 
$1,000,000,000 shall annually submit to an audit of its 
supply chains by an independent auditor for the purpose 
of determining if such company’s supply chains are free 
of child labor and forced labor. 
(b) TIMING OF AUDIT.—The audit required by sub-
section (a) shall be conducted during the first quarter of 
the company’s fiscal year and shall be a complete audit 
of the companies supply chains during the previous fiscal 
year. 
(c) DETERMINATION BY AUDITOR.—In addition to 
any specific information regarding a company’s supply 
chain, the independent auditor shall make a determination 
in each audit that— 
(1) the company’s products are produced with-
out the use of child labor or forced labor; or 
(2) if the independent auditor cannot be certain 
that child labor or forced labor was used, that the 
company’s products may have been produced with 
the use of child labor or forced labor. 
(d) REPORTING OF AUDIT DETERMINATION.—Each 
company required to submit to an audit under this section 
shall, within 60 days of the completion of the audit— 
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(1) report the determination made pursuant to 
subsection (c) to the Department of Labor and the 
Securities and Exchange Commission; and 
(2) post a clear and conspicuous notice on the 
primary homepage of the company’s Internet 
website, based on such determination, that states ei-
ther of the following: 
(A) ‘‘Products are free of child labor and 
forced labor.’’. 
(B) ‘‘Products may have been produced 
using child labor or forced labor.’’. 
(e) DEFINITIONS.—As used in this Act and for pur-
poses of the audit required under this Act— 
(1) the term ‘‘child labor’’ means any labor 
practice relating to work performed by a minor in 
violation of national and international standards, in-
cluding International Labor Organization Conven-
tion No. 182; 
(2) the term ‘‘forced labor’’ means any forced 
labor practice in violation of national and inter-
national standards, including International Labor 
Organization Convention No. 29; 
(3) the term ‘‘independent auditor’’ means an 
entity that is unrelated to and fully independent of 
any company for which it performs audit services re-
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quired by this Act that has demonstrated experience 
with examining international supply chains and fa-
miliarity with international labor standards; 
(4) the term ‘‘product’’ includes a manufac-
tured product, agricultural commodity, and oil, nat-
ural gas, and minerals; and 
(5) the term ‘‘supply chain’’ means all labor re-
cruiters, suppliers of products, component parts of 
products, and raw materials used by a company and 
its subsidiary and suppliers in the manufacturing of 
such company’s products, whether or not such com-
pany has a direct relationship with the supplier. 
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