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‘‘(2) 
DISCLOSURE.—If 
appropriate, 
applicants 
should 
indicate collaboration with nongovernmental organizations, 
including organizations with expertise in trafficking in persons. 
‘‘(c) EVALUATION OF ANTI-TRAFFICKING PROGRAMS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The President shall establish a system 
to evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of the assistance 
provided under anti-trafficking programs established under this 
Act on a program-by-program basis in order to maximize the 
long-term sustainable development impact of such assistance. 
‘‘(2) REQUIREMENTS.—In carrying out paragraph (1), the 
President shall— 
‘‘(A) establish performance goals for the assistance 
described in paragraph (1), expressed in an objective and 
quantifiable form, to the extent practicable; 
‘‘(B) ensure that performance indicators are used for 
programs authorized under this Act to measure and assess 
the achievement of the performance goals described in 
subparagraph (A); 
‘‘(C) provide a basis for recommendations for adjust-
ments to the assistance described in paragraph (1) to 
enhance the impact of such assistance; and 
‘‘(D) ensure that evaluations are conducted by subject 
matter experts in and outside the United States Govern-
ment, to the extent practicable. 
‘‘(d) TARGETED USE OF ANTI-TRAFFICKING PROGRAMS.—In pro-
viding assistance under this division, the President should take 
into account the priorities and country assessments contained in 
the most recent report submitted by the Secretary of State to 
Congress pursuant to section 110(b). 
‘‘(e) CONSISTENCY WITH OTHER PROGRAMS.—The President shall 
ensure that the design, monitoring, and evaluation of United States 
assistance programs for emergency relief, development, and poverty 
alleviation under part I and chapter 4 of part II of the Foreign 
Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2151 et seq. and 2346 et seq.) 
and other similar United States assistance programs are consistent 
with United States policies and other United States programs 
relating to combating trafficking in persons. 
‘‘(f) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—For each of the fiscal 
years 2008 through 2011, not more than 5 percent of the amounts 
made available to carry out this division may be used to carry 
out this section, including— 
‘‘(1) evaluations of promising anti-trafficking programs and 
projects funded by the disbursing agency pursuant to this Act; 
and 
‘‘(2) evaluations of emerging problems or global trends.’’. 
SEC. 106. MINIMUM STANDARDS FOR THE ELIMINATION OF TRAF-
FICKING. 
Section 108 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 
(22 U.S.C. 7106) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘a significant number 
of’’; and 
(2) in subsection (b)— 
(A) in paragraph (1), by striking the period at the 
end of the first sentence and inserting the following: ‘‘, 
including, as appropriate, requiring incarceration of 
individuals convicted of such acts. For purposes of the
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preceding sentence, suspended or significantly-reduced sen-
tences for convictions of principal actors in cases of severe 
forms of trafficking in persons shall be considered, on a 
case-by-case basis, whether to be considered an indicator 
of serious and sustained efforts to eliminate severe forms 
of trafficking in persons.’’; 
(B) in paragraph (2), by inserting before the period 
at the end the following: ‘‘, including by providing training 
to law enforcement and immigration officials regarding 
the identification and treatment of trafficking victims using 
approaches that focus on the needs of the victims’’; 
(C) in paragraph (3), by striking ‘‘measures to reduce 
the demand for commercial sex acts and for participation 
in international sex tourism by nationals of the country’’ 
and inserting ‘‘measures to establish the identity of local 
populations, including birth registration, citizenship, and 
nationality’’; and 
(D) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(11) Whether the government of the country has made 
serious and sustained efforts to reduce the demand for— 
‘‘(A) commercial sex acts; and 
‘‘(B) participation in international sex tourism by 
nationals of the country.’’. 
SEC. 107. ACTIONS AGAINST GOVERNMENTS FAILING TO MEET MIN-
IMUM STANDARDS. 
(a) COUNTRIES ON SPECIAL WATCH LIST RELATING TO TRAF-
FICKING IN PERSONS FOR 2 CONSECUTIVE YEARS.—Section 110(b)(3) 
of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 
7107(b)(3)) is amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(D) COUNTRIES
ON
SPECIAL
WATCH
LIST
FOR
CONSECUTIVE YEARS.— 
‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided under clause 
(ii), a country that is included on the special watch 
list described in subparagraph (A) for 2 consecutive 
years after the date of the enactment of this subpara-
graph, shall be included on the list of countries 
described in paragraph (1)(C). 
‘‘(ii) EXERCISE OF WAIVER AUTHORITY.—The Presi-
dent may waive the application of clause (i) for up 
to 2 years if the President determines, and reports 
credible evidence to the Committee on Foreign Rela-
tions of the Senate and the Committee on Foreign 
Affairs of the House of Representatives, that such a 
waiver is justified because— 
‘‘(I) the country has a written plan to begin 
making significant efforts to bring itself into 
compliance with the minimum standards for the 
elimination of trafficking; 
‘‘(II) the plan, if implemented, would constitute 
making such significant efforts; and 
‘‘(III) 
the 
country 
is 
devoting 
sufficient 
resources to implement the plan.’’. 
(b) CLARIFICATION OF MEASURES AGAINST CERTAIN FOREIGN 
COUNTRIES.—Section 110(d)(1)(A)(ii) of the Trafficking Victims 
Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7107(d)(1)(A)) is amended by 
inserting ‘‘such assistance to the government of the country for
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the subsequent fiscal year and will not provide’’ after ‘‘will not 
provide’’. 
(c) TRANSLATION OF TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT.—The 
Secretary of State shall— 
(1) timely translate the annual report submitted under 
section 110(b) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 
(22 U.S.C. 7107(b)) into the principal languages of as many 
countries as possible, with particular emphasis on the lan-
guages of the countries on the lists described in subparagraphs 
(B) and (C) of section 110(b)(1) of such Act; and 
(2) ensure that the translations described in paragraph 
(1) are made available to the public through postings on the 
Internet website of the Department of State and other appro-
priate websites. 
SEC. 108. RESEARCH ON DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL TRAF-
FICKING IN PERSONS. 
(a) INTEGRATED DATABASE.—Section 112A of the Trafficking 
Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7109a) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a), by amending paragraph (5) to read 
as follows: 
‘‘(5) An effective mechanism for quantifying the number 
of victims of trafficking on a national, regional, and inter-
national basis, which shall include, not later than 2 years 
after the date of the enactment of the William Wilberforce 
Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008, the 
establishment and maintenance of an integrated database 
within the Human Smuggling and Trafficking Center.’’; and 
(2) by amending subsection (b) to read as follows: 
‘‘(b) ROLE OF HUMAN SMUGGLING AND TRAFFICKING CENTER.— 
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—The research initiatives described in 
paragraphs (4) and (5) of subsection (a) shall be carried out 
by the Human Smuggling and Trafficking Center, established 
under section 7202 of the 9/11 Commission Implementation 
Act of 2004 (8 U.S.C. 1777). 
‘‘(2) DATABASE.—The database described in subsection (a)(5) 
shall be established by combining all applicable data collected 
by each Federal department and agency represented on the 
Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking, 
consistent with the protection of sources and methods, and, 
to the maximum extent practicable, applicable data from rel-
evant international organizations, to— 
‘‘(A) improve the coordination of the collection of data 
related to trafficking in persons by each agency of the 
United States Government that collects such data; 
‘‘(B) promote uniformity of such data collection and 
standards and systems related to such collection; 
‘‘(C) undertake a meta-analysis of patterns of traf-
ficking in persons, slavery, and slave-like conditions to 
develop and analyze global trends in human trafficking; 
‘‘(D) identify emerging issues in human trafficking and 
establishing integrated methods to combat them; and 
‘‘(E) identify research priorities to respond to global 
patterns and emerging issues. 
‘‘(3) CONSULTATION.—The database established in accord-
ance with paragraph (2) shall be maintained in consultation
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with the Director of the Office to Monitor and Combat Traf-
ficking in Persons of the Department of State. 
‘‘(4) 
AUTHORIZATION
OF
APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are 
authorized to be appropriated $2,000,000 to the Human Smug-
gling and Trafficking Center for each of the fiscal years 2008 
through 2011 to carry out the activities described in this sub-
section.’’. 
(b) REPORT.—Section 110(b)(1) of the Trafficking Victims Protec-
tion Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7107(b)(1)) is amended— 
(1) in subparagraph (C), by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end; 
(2) in subparagraph (D), by striking the period at the 
end and inserting a semicolon; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(E) reporting and analysis on the emergence or 
shifting of global patterns in human trafficking, including 
data on the number of victims trafficked to, through, or 
from major source and destination countries, disaggregated 
by nationality, gender, and age, to the extent possible; 
and 
‘‘(F) emerging issues in human trafficking.’’. 
SEC. 109. PRESIDENTIAL AWARD FOR EXTRAORDINARY EFFORTS TO 
COMBAT TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS. 
The Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7101 
et seq.) is amended by inserting after section 112A the following: 
‘‘SEC. 112B. PRESIDENTIAL AWARD FOR EXTRAORDINARY EFFORTS 
TO COMBAT TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS. 
‘‘(a) ESTABLISHMENT OF AWARD.—The President is authorized 
to establish an award, to be known as the ‘Presidential Award 
for Extraordinary Efforts To Combat Trafficking in Persons’, for 
extraordinary efforts to combat trafficking in persons. To the max-
imum extent practicable, the Secretary of State shall present the 
award annually to not more than 5 individuals or organizations, 
including— 
‘‘(1) individuals who are United States citizens or foreign 
nationals; and 
‘‘(2) United States or foreign nongovernmental organiza-
tions. 
‘‘(b) SELECTION.—The President shall establish procedures for 
selecting recipients of the award authorized under subsection (a). 
‘‘(c) CEREMONY.—The Secretary of State shall host an annual 
ceremony for recipients of the award authorized under subsection 
(a) as soon as practicable after the date on which the Secretary 
submits to Congress the report required under section 110(b)(1). 
The Secretary of State may pay the travel costs of each recipient 
and a guest of each recipient who attends the ceremony. 
‘‘(d) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There are authorized 
to be appropriated, for each of the fiscal years 2008 through 2011, 
such sums as may be necessary to carry out this section.’’. 
SEC. 110. REPORT ON ACTIVITIES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 
TO MONITOR AND COMBAT FORCED LABOR AND CHILD 
LABOR. 
(a) FINAL REPORT; PUBLIC AVAILABILITY OF LIST.—Not later 
than January 15, 2010, the Secretary of Labor shall— 
(1) submit to the appropriate congressional committees a 
final report that—