H. R. 2200 
One Hundred Fifteenth Congress 
of the 
United States of America 
AT THE SECOND SESSION 
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Wednesday, 
the third day of January, two thousand and eighteen 
An Act 
To reauthorize the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Frederick Douglass Trafficking 
Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act of 2018’’. 
SEC. 2. TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
The table of contents for this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title. 
Sec. 2. Table of contents. 
TITLE I—COMBATING TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS IN THE UNITED STATES 
Subtitle A—Programs to Support Victims and Persons Vulnerable to Human 
Trafficking 
Sec. 101. Grants to assist in the recognition of trafficking. 
Sec. 102. Preventing future trafficking in the United States through receipt of com-
plaints abroad. 
Sec. 103. Modification to grants for victims services. 
Subtitle B—Governmental Efforts to Prevent Human Trafficking 
Sec. 111. Required training to prevent human trafficking for certain contracting air 
carriers. 
Sec. 112. Ensuring United States procurement does not fund human trafficking. 
Sec. 113. Training course on human trafficking and government contracting. 
Sec. 114. Modifications to the Advisory Council on Human Trafficking. 
Sec. 115. Sense of Congress on the Senior Policy Operating Group. 
Sec. 116. Best practices to prevent forced child labor trafficking. 
Subtitle C—Preventing Trafficking in Persons in the United States 
Sec. 121. Demand reduction strategies in the United States. 
Sec. 122. Designation of a labor prosecutor to enhance State and local efforts to 
combat trafficking in persons. 
Sec. 123. Preventing human trafficking in foreign missions and diplomatic house-
holds. 
Sec. 124. Actions against significant traffickers in persons. 
Subtitle D—Monitoring Child, Forced, and Slave Labor 
Sec. 131. Sense of Congress. 
Sec. 132. Report on the enforcement of section 307 of the Tariff Act of 1930. 
Sec. 133. Modification to list of child-made and slavery-made goods. 
TITLE II—FIGHTING HUMAN TRAFFICKING ABROAD 
Subtitle A—Efforts to Combat Trafficking 
Sec. 201. Including the Secretary of the Treasury and the United States Trade Rep-
resentative as a member of the Interagency Task Force to Monitor and 
Combat Trafficking. 
Sec. 202. Encouraging countries to maintain and share data on human trafficking 
efforts.
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Sec. 203. Appropriate listing of governments involved in human trafficking. 
Sec. 204. Requirements for strategies to prevent trafficking. 
Sec. 205. Briefing on countries with primarily migrant workforces. 
Sec. 206. Report on recipients of funding from the United States Agency for Inter-
national Development. 
Subtitle B—Child Soldier Prevention Act of 2018 
Sec. 211. Findings. 
Sec. 212. Amendments to the Child Soldiers Prevention Act of 2008. 
TITLE III—AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS 
Sec. 301. Authorization of appropriations under the Trafficking Victims Protection 
Act of 2000. 
Sec. 302. Authorization of appropriations under the International Megan’s Law. 
Sec. 303. Authorization of appropriations for airport personnel training to identify 
and report human trafficking victims. 
TITLE I—COMBATING TRAFFICKING IN 
PERSONS IN THE UNITED STATES 
Subtitle A—Programs to Support Victims 
and Persons Vulnerable to Human Traf-
ficking 
SEC. 101. GRANTS TO ASSIST IN THE RECOGNITION OF TRAFFICKING. 
(a) GRANTS TO ASSIST IN RECOGNITION OF TRAFFICKING.—Sec-
tion 106(b) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 
U.S.C. 7104(b)) is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘The President’’ and inserting the following: 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The President’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(2) GRANTS
TO
ASSIST
IN
THE
RECOGNITION
OF
TRAF-
FICKING.— 
‘‘(A) DEFINITIONS.—In this paragraph: 
‘‘(i) ESEA TERMS.—The terms ‘elementary school’, 
‘local educational agency’, ‘other staff’, and ‘secondary 
school’ have the meanings given the terms in section 
8101 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act 
of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801). 
‘‘(ii) 
HIGH-INTENSITY
CHILD
SEX
TRAFFICKING 
AREA.—The term ‘high-intensity child sex trafficking 
area’ means a metropolitan area designated by the 
Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation as 
having a high rate of children involved in sex traf-
ficking. 
‘‘(iii) LABOR TRAFFICKING.—The term ‘labor traf-
ficking’ means conduct described in section 103(9)(B) 
of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 
U.S.C. 7102(9)(B)). 
‘‘(iv) SCHOOL STAFF.—The term ‘school staff’ means 
teachers, nurses, school leaders and administrators, 
and other staff at elementary schools and secondary 
schools. 
‘‘(v) SEX TRAFFICKING.—The term ‘sex trafficking’ 
means the conduct described in section 103(9)(A) of 
the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 
U.S.C. 7102(9)(A)).
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‘‘(B) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Health and Human 
Services, in consultation with the Secretary of Education 
and the Secretary of Labor, may award grants to local 
educational agencies, in partnership with a nonprofit, non-
governmental agency, to establish, expand, and support 
programs— 
‘‘(i) to educate school staff to recognize and respond 
to signs of labor trafficking and sex trafficking; and 
‘‘(ii) to provide age-appropriate information to stu-
dents on how to avoid becoming victims of labor traf-
ficking and sex trafficking. 
‘‘(C) PROGRAM
REQUIREMENTS.—Amounts awarded 
under this paragraph shall be used for— 
‘‘(i) education regarding— 
‘‘(I) avoiding becoming victims of labor traf-
ficking and sex trafficking; 
‘‘(II) indicators that an individual is a victim 
or potential victim of labor trafficking or sex traf-
ficking; 
‘‘(III) options and procedures for referring such 
an individual, as appropriate, to information on 
such trafficking and services available for victims 
of such trafficking; 
‘‘(IV) reporting requirements and procedures 
in accordance with applicable Federal and State 
law; and 
‘‘(V) how to carry out activities authorized 
under subparagraph (A)(ii); and 
‘‘(ii) a plan, developed and implemented in con-
sultation with local law enforcement agencies, to 
ensure the safety of school staff and students reporting 
such trafficking. 
‘‘(D) PRIORITY.—In awarding grants under this para-
graph, the Secretary shall give priority to local educational 
agencies serving a high-intensity child sex trafficking 
area.’’. 
(b) INCLUSION IN AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—Section 
113(b)(1) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 
U.S.C. 7110(b)(1)) is amended by striking ‘‘section 107(b)’’ and 
inserting ‘‘sections 106(b) and 107(b)’’. 
SEC. 102. PREVENTING FUTURE TRAFFICKING IN THE UNITED STATES 
THROUGH RECEIPT OF COMPLAINTS ABROAD. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of State shall ensure that 
each diplomatic or consular post or other mission designates an 
employee to be responsible for receiving information from— 
(1) any person who was a victim of a severe form of traf-
ficking in persons (as such term is defined in section 103(14) 
of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 
7102(14))) while present in the United States; or 
(2) any person who has information regarding a victim 
described in paragraph (1). 
(b) PROVISION
OF INFORMATION.—Any information received 
pursuant to subsection (a) shall be transmitted to the Department 
of Justice, the Department of Labor, the Department of Homeland 
Security, and to any other relevant Federal agency for appropriate