I 
116TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 508 
To require a study and report on the housing and service needs of victims 
of trafficking and individuals at risk for trafficking. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 11, 2019 
Mrs. BEATTY (for herself and Mrs. WAGNER) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Financial Services 
A BILL 
To require a study and report on the housing and service 
needs of victims of trafficking and individuals at risk 
for trafficking. 
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 ‘‘Trafficking Victims 
Housing Act of 2019’’. 
SEC. 2. STUDY AND REPORT ON HOUSING AND SERVICE 
NEEDS OF VICTIMS OF TRAFFICKING AND IN-
DIVIDUALS AT RISK FOR TRAFFICKING. 
(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section, the terms ‘‘severe 
forms of trafficking in persons’’ and ‘‘victim of traf-
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ficking’’ have the meanings given those terms in section 
103 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 
U.S.C. 7102). 
(b) STUDY AND REPORT.—The United States Inter-
agency Council on Homelessness, in coordination with the 
United States Advisory Council on Human Trafficking, 
the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the 
Administration for Children and Families of the Depart-
ment of Health and Human Services, and the Department 
of Justice, and in consultation with the National Advisory 
Committee on Sex Trafficking of Children and Youth in 
the United States and direct service providers and housing 
and homelessness practitioners, shall conduct a study as-
sessing the availability and accessibility of housing and 
services for individuals experiencing homelessness who are 
victims of trafficking, victims of severe forms of traf-
ficking in persons, or at risk of being trafficked, which 
shall include— 
(1) an evaluation of formal assessments and 
outreach methods used to identify and assess the 
housing and service needs of those individuals; 
(2) a review of the availability and accessibility 
of homelessness or housing services for those individ-
uals, including the families of those individuals who 
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are minors and youth involved in foster care sys-
tems; 
(3) the effect of any policies and procedures of 
mainstream homelessness or housing services that 
facilitate or limit their availability and accessibility 
for those individuals, as those services are in effect 
as of the date on which the report is submitted; 
(4) an assessment of the ability of mainstream 
homelessness or housing services to meet the special-
ized needs of victims of trafficking, including trauma 
responsive approaches specific to labor and sex traf-
ficking victims; 
(5) an evaluation of the effectiveness of and in-
frastructure considerations for housing and service- 
delivery models that are specific to victims of severe 
forms of trafficking in persons, including emergency 
rental assistance models; and 
(6) an identification of best practices in meet-
ing the housing and service needs of those individ-
uals. 
(c) REPORT
SUBMISSIONS.—The United States 
Interagency Council on Homelessness shall submit to the 
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of 
the Senate and the Committee on Financial Services of 
the House of Representatives— 
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(1) not later than 18 months after the date of 
the enactment of this Act, an interim report con-
taining the information described in paragraphs (1) 
through (5) of subsection (b); and 
(2) not later than 36 months after the date of 
the enactment of this Act, a final report con-
taining— 
(A) the information described in para-
graphs (1) through (6) of subsection (b); and 
(B) any updates to the information con-
tained in the interim report submitted under 
paragraph (1). 
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