I 
113TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 906 
To amend title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 
1968 to provide for improvements under the Edward Byrne Memorial 
Justice Assistance Grant Program to reduce racial and ethnic disparities 
in the criminal justice system and to amend the Omnibus Crime Control 
and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to include human trafficking as a part 
1 violent crime for purposes of the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice 
Assistance Grant Program. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 28, 2013 
Mr. CARTER (for himself, Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York, Mr. POE 
of Texas, Mr. BLUMENAUER, and Mr. SMITH of New Jersey) introduced 
the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 
A BILL 
To amend title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe 
Streets Act of 1968 to provide for improvements under 
the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant 
Program to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in the 
criminal justice system and to amend the Omnibus Crime 
Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to include human 
trafficking as a part 1 violent crime for purposes of 
the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant 
Program. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Human Trafficking 
Reporting Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) Human trafficking is a form of modern-day 
slavery. 
(2) According to the Trafficking Victims Pro-
tection Act of 2000 ‘‘severe forms of trafficking in 
persons’’ means— 
(A) sex trafficking in which a commercial 
sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, 
or in which the person induced to perform such 
act has not attained 18 years of age; or 
(B) the recruitment, harboring, transpor-
tation, provision, or obtaining of a person for 
labor or services, through the use of force, 
fraud, or coercion for the purpose of subjection 
to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, 
or slavery. 
(3) There is an acute need for better data col-
lection of incidents of human trafficking across the 
United States in order to effectively combat severe 
forms of trafficking in persons. 
(4) The State Department’s 2011 Trafficking 
in Persons report found that— 
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(A) the United States is a ‘‘source, transit 
and destination country for men, women, and 
children, subjected to forced labor, debt bond-
age, domestic servitude and sex trafficking,’’; 
and 
(B) the United States needs to ‘‘improve 
data collection on human trafficking cases at 
the federal, state and local levels’’. 
(5) The International Organization for Migra-
tion has reported that in order to effectively combat 
human trafficking there must be reliable and stand-
ardized data, however, the following barriers for 
data collection exist: 
(A) The illicit and underground nature of 
human trafficking. 
(B) The reluctance of victims to share in-
formation with authorities. 
(C) Insufficient human trafficking data 
collection and research efforts by governments 
world-wide. 
(6) A 2009 report to the Department of Health 
and Human Services entitled Human Trafficking 
Into and Within the United States: A Review of the 
Literature found that ‘‘the data and methodologies 
for estimating the prevalence of human trafficking 
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globally and nationally are not well developed, and 
therefore estimates have varied widely and changed 
significantly over time’’. 
(7) The Federal Bureau of Investigation com-
piles national crime statistics through the Uniform 
Crime Reporting Program. 
(8) Under current law, State and local govern-
ments receiving Edward Byrne Memorial Justice As-
sistance grants are required to share data on part 
1 violent crimes with the Federal Bureau of Inves-
tigation for inclusion in the Uniform Crime Report-
ing Program. 
(9) The addition of severe forms of trafficking 
in persons to the definition of part 1 violent crimes 
will ensure that statistics on this heinous crime will 
be compiled and available through the Federal Bu-
reau of Investigation’s Uniform Crime Report. 
SEC. 3. HUMAN TRAFFICKING TO BE INCLUDED IN PART 1 
VIOLENT CRIMES FOR PURPOSES OF BYRNE 
GRANTS. 
Section 505 of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe 
Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3755) is amended by add-
ing at the end the following new subsection: 
‘‘(i) PART 1 VIOLENT CRIMES TO INCLUDE HUMAN 
TRAFFICKING.—For purposes of this section, the term 
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‘part 1 violent crimes’ shall include severe forms of traf-
ficking in persons, as defined in section 103(8) of the 
Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000.’’. 
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