SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND SENSE OF CONGRESS. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
(1) In 2014, the Department of Labor identi-
fied 136 goods from 74 countries around the world 
made by forced labor and child labor. 
(2) The United States is the world’s largest im-
porter, and in the 21st century, investors, con-
sumers, and broader civil society increasingly de-
mand information about the human rights impact of 
products in the United States market. 
(3) Courts have ruled that consumers do not 
have standing to bring a civil action in United 
States courts for enforcement of a provision in the 
Smoot Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 prohibiting impor-
tation of goods made with forced labor or convict 
labor, and furthermore, the provision has a broad 
exception for goods that cannot be produced in the 
United States in sufficient quantities to meet the de-
mands of American consumers from tainted goods, 
consequently, there are fewer than 40 enforcement 
actions on record in the past 80 years. 
(4) Mechanisms under Federal law to prevent 
and punish perpetrators of forced labor, slavery, 
human trafficking, and the worst forms of child 
labor in the stream of commerce suffer from prob-
lems of limited scope, broad expectations, and lack 
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of available information about goods that are pro-
duced along supply chains tainted by these crimes 
and imported by the United States. 
(5) The Trafficking Victims Protection Reau-
thorization Act of 2003 (Public Law 108–193) to-
gether with the Trafficking Victims Protection Act 
of 2005 (Public Law 109–164) provide for the ter-
mination of Federal contracts where a Federal con-
tractor or subcontractor engages in severe forms of 
trafficking in persons or has procured a commercial 
sex act during the period of time that the grant, 
contract, or cooperative agreement is in effect, or 
uses forced labor in the performance of the grant, 
contract, or cooperative agreement. The Trafficking 
Victims Protection Act of 2005 also provides United 
States courts with criminal jurisdiction abroad over 
Federal employees, contractors, or subcontractors 
who participate in severe forms of trafficking in per-
sons or forced labor. 
(6) Executive Order 13126, Prohibition of Ac-
quisition of Products Produced by Forced or Inden-
tured 
Child 
Labor, 
Executive 
Order 
13627, 
Strengthening Protections Against Trafficking In 
Persons In Federal Contracts, and title XVII of the 
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 
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2013 (Public Law 112–239) have prohibited Federal 
contractors, subcontractors, and their employees 
from engaging in the following trafficking-related ac-
tivities: charging labor recruitment fees; confiscating 
passports and other identity documents of workers; 
and using fraudulent recruitment practices, includ-
ing failing to disclose basic information or making 
material misrepresentations about the terms and 
conditions of employment. Such Executive order and 
Acts also require Federal contractors, subcontrac-
tors, and their employees to maintain an anti-traf-
ficking compliance plan that includes, among other 
elements, a complaint mechanism and procedures to 
prevent subcontractors at any tier in the supply 
chain from engaging in trafficking in persons. 
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-
gress that— 
(1) forced labor, slavery, human trafficking, 
and the worst forms of child labor are among the 
most egregious forms of abuse that humans commit 
against each other, for the sake of commercial prof-
it; 
(2) the legislative and regulatory framework to 
prevent goods produced by forced labor, slavery, 
human trafficking, and the worst forms of child 
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labor from passing into the stream of commerce in 
the United States is gravely inadequate; 
(3) legislation is necessary to provide consumers 
information on products that are free of child labor, 
forced labor, slavery, and human trafficking; and 
(4) through publicly available disclosures, busi-
nesses and consumers can avoid inadvertently pro-
moting or sanctioning these crimes through produc-
tion and purchase of raw materials, goods and fin-
ished products that have been tainted in the supply 
chains. 
SEC. 3. DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION RELATING TO EF-
FORTS TO COMBAT THE USE OF FORCED 
LABOR, SLAVERY, TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS, 
OR THE WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR. 
Section 13 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 
(15 U.S.C. 78m) is amended by adding at the end the 
following new subsection: 
‘‘(s) DISCLOSURES RELATING TO EFFORTS TO COM-
BAT
THE USE
OF FORCED LABOR, SLAVERY, TRAF-
FICKING IN PERSONS, OR THE WORST FORMS OF CHILD 
LABOR.— 
‘‘(1) REGULATIONS.—Not later than 1 year 
after the date of enactment of the Business Supply 
Chain Transparency on Trafficking and Slavery Act 
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of 2018, the Commission, in consultation with the 
Secretary of State, shall promulgate regulations to 
require that any covered issuer required to file re-
ports with the Commission under this section to in-
clude annually in such reports, a disclosure whether 
the covered issuer has taken any measures during 
the year for which such reporting is required to 
identify and address conditions of forced labor, slav-
ery, human trafficking, and the worst forms of child 
labor within the covered issuer’s supply chain, and 
a description of such measures taken. Such disclo-
sure shall include, under the heading ‘Policies to Ad-
dress Forced Labor, Slavery, Human Trafficking, 
and the Worst Forms of Child Labor’, information 
describing to what extent, if any, the covered issuer 
conducts any of the following activities: 
‘‘(A) Whether the covered issuer maintains 
a policy to identify and eliminate the risks of 
forced labor, slavery, human trafficking, and 
the worst forms of child labor within the cov-
ered issuer’s supply chain (such disclosure to 
include the text of the policy or substantive de-
scription of the elements of the policy), and ac-
tions the covered issuer has taken pursuant to 
or in the absence of such policy. 
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