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114TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4406 
To direct the Secretary of Labor to train certain Department of Labor 
personnel how to effectively detect and assist law enforcement in pre-
venting human trafficking during the course of their primary roles and 
responsibilities, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 1, 2016 
Mr. WALBERG (for himself, Mrs. WAGNER, Mr. GUTHRIE, and Mr. HECK of 
Nevada) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Education and the Workforce 
A BILL 
To direct the Secretary of Labor to train certain Department 
of Labor personnel how to effectively detect and assist 
law enforcement in preventing human trafficking during 
the course of their primary roles and responsibilities, 
and for other purposes. 
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 ‘‘Enhancing Detection 
of Human Trafficking Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. DEFINITION OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING. 
In this Act the term ‘‘human trafficking’’ means an 
act or practice described in paragraph (9) or (10) of sec-
tion 103 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 
(22 U.S.C. 7102). 
SEC. 3. TRAINING FOR DEPARTMENT PERSONNEL TO IDEN-
TIFY HUMAN TRAFFICKING. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days after the 
date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Labor shall 
implement a program to— 
(1) train and periodically retrain relevant per-
sonnel across the Department of Labor that the Sec-
retary considers appropriate, how to effectively de-
tect and assist law enforcement in preventing human 
trafficking during the course of their primary roles 
and responsibilities; and 
(2) ensure that such personnel regularly receive 
current information on matters related to the detec-
tion of human trafficking, including information that 
becomes available outside of the Department’s initial 
or periodic retraining schedule, to the extent rel-
evant to their official duties and consistent with ap-
plicable information and privacy laws. 
(b) TRAINING DESCRIBED.—The training referred to 
in subsection (a) may be conducted through in-class or 
virtual learning capabilities, and shall include— 
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(1) methods for identifying suspected victims of 
human trafficking and, where appropriate, perpetra-
tors of human trafficking; 
(2) training that is most appropriate for a par-
ticular location or environment in which the per-
sonnel receiving such training perform their official 
duties; 
(3) other topics determined by the Secretary to 
be appropriate reflecting current trends and best 
practices for personnel in their particular location or 
professional environment; 
(4) a clear course of action for referring poten-
tial cases of human trafficking to the Department of 
Justice and other appropriate authorities; and 
(5) a post-training evaluation for personnel re-
ceiving the training. 
SEC. 4. REPORT TO CONGRESS. 
Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment 
of this Act, and each year thereafter, the Secretary of 
Labor shall report to the appropriate Congressional com-
mittees on the training provided to the personnel referred 
to in section 3(a), including— 
(1) an evaluation of such training and the over-
all effectiveness of the program required by this Act; 
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(2) the number of cases referred by Department 
of Labor personnel in which human trafficking was 
suspected and the metrics used by the Department 
to accurately measure and track its response to in-
stances of suspected human trafficking; and 
(3) the number of Department of Labor em-
ployees who have completed such training as re-
quired by this Act. 
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