‘‘(B) Whether the covered issuer maintains 
a policy prohibiting its employees and employ-
ees of entities associated with its supply chain 
from engaging in commercial sex acts with a 
minor. 
‘‘(C) The efforts of the covered issuer to 
evaluate and address the risks of forced labor, 
slavery, human trafficking, and the worst forms 
of child labor in the product supply chain. If 
such efforts have been made, such disclosure 
shall— 
‘‘(i) describe any risks identified with-
in the supply chain, and the measures 
taken toward eliminating those risks; 
‘‘(ii) specify whether the evaluation 
was or was not conducted by a third party; 
‘‘(iii) specify whether the process in-
cludes consultation with the independent 
labor organizations (as such term is de-
fined in section 2 of the National Labor 
Relations Act (29 U.S.C. 152)), workers’ 
associations, or workers within workplaces 
and incorporates the resulting input or 
written comments from such independent 
labor organizations, workers’ associations, 
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or workers and if so, the disclosure shall 
describe the entities consulted and specify 
the method of such consultation; and 
‘‘(iv) specify the extent to which the 
process covers entities within the supply 
chain, including entities upstream in the 
product supply chain and entities across 
lines of products or services throughout the 
covered issuer’s product manufacturing. 
‘‘(D) The efforts of the covered issuer to 
ensure that audits of suppliers within the sup-
ply chain of the covered issuer are conducted 
to— 
‘‘(i) investigate the working conditions 
and labor practices of such suppliers; 
‘‘(ii) verify whether such suppliers 
have in place appropriate systems to iden-
tify risks of forced labor, slavery, human 
trafficking, and the worst forms of child 
labor within their own supply chain; and 
‘‘(iii) evaluate whether such systems 
are in compliance with the policies of the 
covered issuer or efforts in absence of such 
policies. 
‘‘(E) The efforts of the covered issuer to— 
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‘‘(i) require suppliers in the supply 
chain to attest that the manufacture of 
materials incorporated into any product 
and the recruitment of labor are carried 
out in compliance with the laws regarding 
forced labor, slavery, human trafficking, 
and the worst forms of child labor; 
‘‘(ii) maintain internal accountability 
standards, supply chain management, and 
procurement systems, and reporting proce-
dures for employees, suppliers, contractors, 
or other entities within its supply chain 
failing to meet the covered issuer’s stand-
ards 
regarding 
forced 
labor, 
slavery, 
human trafficking, and the worst forms of 
child labor, including a description of such 
standards, systems, and procedures; 
‘‘(iii) train the employees and man-
agement who have direct responsibility for 
supply chain management on issues related 
to forced labor, slavery, human trafficking, 
and the worst forms of child labor, particu-
larly with respect to mitigating risks within 
the supply chains of products; and 
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‘‘(iv) ensure that labor recruitment 
practices at all suppliers associated with 
the supply chain comply with the covered 
issuer’s policies or efforts in absence of 
such policies for eliminating exploitive 
labor practices that contribute to forced 
labor, slavery, human trafficking, and the 
worst forms of child labor, including by 
complying with audits of labor recruiters 
and disclosing the results of such audits. 
‘‘(F) The efforts of the covered issuer in 
cases where forced labor, slavery, human traf-
ficking, and the worst forms of child labor have 
been identified within the supply chain, to en-
sure that remedial action is provided to those 
who have identified as victims, including sup-
port for programs designed to prevent the re-
currence of those events within the industry or 
sector in which they have been identified. 
‘‘(2) REQUIREMENTS FOR AVAILABILITY OF IN-
FORMATION.— 
‘‘(A) 
DISCLOSURE
ON
COMPANY 
WEBSITE.—The regulations promulgated under 
paragraph (1) shall require that the required 
information be disclosed by the covered issuer 
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on the Internet website of the covered issuer 
through a conspicuous and easily understand-
able link to the relevant information that shall 
be labeled ‘Global Supply Chain Transparency’. 
‘‘(B) 
DISCLOSURE
ON
COMMISSION 
WEBSITE.—The Commission shall make avail-
able to the public in a searchable format on the 
Commission’s website— 
‘‘(i) a list of covered issuers required 
to disclose any measures taken by the com-
pany to identify and address conditions of 
forced labor, slavery, human trafficking, 
and the worst forms of child labor within 
the covered issuer’s supply chain, as re-
quired by this subsection; and 
‘‘(ii) a compilation of the information 
submitted under the rules issued under 
paragraph (1). 
‘‘(3) DEFINITIONS.—As used in this sub-
section— 
‘‘(A) the term ‘covered issuer’ means an 
issuer that has annual worldwide global receipts 
in excess of $100,000,000; 
‘‘(B) the terms ‘forced labor’, ‘slavery’, and 
‘human trafficking’ mean any labor practice or 
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human trafficking activity in violation of na-
tional and international standards, including 
International Labor Organization Convention 
No. 182, the Trafficking Victims Protection Act 
of 2000 (Public Law 106–386), and acts that 
would violate the criminal provisions related to 
slavery and human trafficking under chapter 77 
of title 18, United States Code, if they had 
been committed within the jurisdiction of the 
United States; 
‘‘(C) the term ‘remedial action’ means the 
activities or systems that an issuer puts in place 
to address non-compliance identified through 
monitoring or verification, and may apply to in-
dividuals adversely affected by the non-compli-
ant conduct or address broader systematic proc-
esses; 
‘‘(D) the term ‘supply chain’, with respect 
to a covered issuer disclosing the information 
required under the regulations promulgated 
under this section, means all labor recruiters, 
suppliers of products, component parts of prod-
ucts, and raw materials used by such entity in 
the manufacturing of such entity’s products 
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whether or not such entity has a direct relation-
ship with the supplier; and 
‘‘(E) the term ‘the worst forms of child 
labor’ means child labor in violation of national 
and international standards, including Inter-
national Labor Organization Convention No. 
182.’’. 
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