I 
115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2200 
To reauthorize the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, and for 
other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 27, 2017 
Mr. SMITH of New Jersey (for himself, Ms. BASS, Mr. ROYCE of California, 
Ms. JACKSON LEE, Mrs. BROOKS of Indiana, Ms. FRANKEL of Florida, 
Mrs. WAGNER, Mr. CA´RDENAS, Mr. POE of Texas, and Mr. COSTELLO 
of Pennsylvania) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on the 
Judiciary, Oversight and Government Reform, Ways and Means, Trans-
portation and Infrastructure, Energy and Commerce, Armed Services, 
and Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently deter-
mined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions 
as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To reauthorize the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 
2000, 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 ‘‘Frederick Douglass 
Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthor-
ization Act of 2017’’. 
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SEC. 2. TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
The table of contents for this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title. 
Sec. 2. Table of contents. 
TITLE I—COMBATING TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS IN THE UNITED 
STATES 
Subtitle A—Programs To Support Victims and Persons Vulnerable to Human 
Trafficking 
Sec. 111. Ensuring children are educated to avoid traffickers. 
Sec. 112. Preventing future trafficking in the United States through receipt of 
complaints abroad. 
Sec. 113. Human Trafficking Victims Reintegration Through Employment Pro-
gram. 
Sec. 114. Modification to grants for victims services. 
Subtitle B—Governmental Efforts To Prevent Human Trafficking 
Sec. 121. Required training to prevent human trafficking for certain con-
tracting air carriers. 
Sec. 122. Priority for use of funds for lodging expenses at accommodations 
lacking certain policies relating to child sexual exploitation. 
Sec. 123. Ensuring United States procurement does not fund human traf-
ficking. 
Sec. 124. Training course on human trafficking and Government contracting. 
Sec. 125. Modifications to the Advisory Council on Human Trafficking. 
Sec. 126. Sense of Congress on strengthening Federal efforts to reduce de-
mand. 
Sec. 127. Sense of Congress on the Senior Policy Operating Group. 
Subtitle C—Preventing Trafficking in Persons in the United States 
Sec. 131. Demand reduction strategies in the United States. 
Sec. 132. Designation of a labor prosecutor to enhance State and local efforts 
to combat trafficking in persons. 
Sec. 133. Preventing human trafficking in foreign missions and diplomatic 
households. 
Sec. 134. Encouraging State and local crime-tip organization to reward tips 
fighting human trafficking. 
Sec. 135. Ensuring that traffickers help pay for care for victims. 
Sec. 136. Exempting from Federal income taxation civil damages awarded 
under section 1595 of title 18, United States Code. 
Subtitle D—Monitoring Child, Forced, and Slave Labor 
Sec. 141. Sense of Congress. 
Sec. 142. Report on the enforcement of section 307 of the Tariff Act of 1930. 
Sec. 143. Modification to list of child-made and slavery-made goods. 
TITLE II—FIGHTING HUMAN TRAFFICKING ABROAD 
Subtitle A—Monitoring Efforts To Combat Trafficking 
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Sec. 211. Including the Secretary of the Treasury and the United States Trade 
Representative as a member of the interagency task force to 
monitor and combat trafficking. 
Sec. 212. Encouraging countries to maintain and share data on human traf-
ficking efforts. 
Sec. 213. Appropriate listing of governments involved in human trafficking. 
Sec. 214. Requirements for strategies to prevent trafficking. 
Subtitle B—Child Soldier Prevention Act of 2017 
Sec. 221. Findings. 
Sec. 222. Amendments to the Child Soldiers Prevention Act of 2008. 
TITLE III—AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS 
Sec. 301. Authorization of appropriations under the Trafficking Victims Protec-
tion Act of 2000. 
Sec. 302. Authorization of appropriations under the Trafficking Victims Protec-
tion Reauthorization Act of 2005. 
Sec. 303. Authorization of appropriations for enhancing efforts to combat the 
trafficking of children. 
Sec. 304. Authorization of appropriations under the International Megan’s 
Law. 
Sec. 305. Authorization of appropriations for airport personnel training to iden-
tify and report human trafficking victims. 
Sec. 306. Authorization of appropriations in support of the United State Advi-
sory Council on Human Trafficking. 
Sec. 307. Transparency in anti-trafficking expenditures. 
TITLE 
I—COMBATING 
TRAF-
FICKING IN PERSONS IN THE 
UNITED STATES 
Subtitle A—Programs To Support 
Victims and Persons Vulnerable 
to Human Trafficking 
SEC. 111. ENSURING CHILDREN ARE EDUCATED TO AVOID 
TRAFFICKERS. 
Paragraph (5) of section 4108 of the Elementary and 
Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7118) is 
amended— 
(1) in subparagraph (H), by striking ‘‘or’’ at 
the end; 
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(2) in subparagraph (I), by striking the period 
at the end and inserting ‘‘; or’’; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following new sub-
paragraph: 
‘‘(J) educating children on the signs and 
dangers of severe forms of trafficking in per-
sons (as such term is defined in section 103(9) 
of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 
2000 (22 U.S.C. 7102(9))).’’. 
SEC. 112. PREVENTING FUTURE TRAFFICKING IN THE 
UNITED STATES THROUGH RECEIPT OF COM-
PLAINTS ABROAD. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of State shall en-
sure that each diplomatic or consular post or other mission 
designates an employee to be responsible for receiving in-
formation from any person who was a victim of a severe 
form of trafficking in persons (as such term is defined 
in section 103(14) of the Trafficking Victims Protection 
Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7102(14))) while present in the 
United States, or any person who has information regard-
ing such a victim. 
(b) PROVISION OF INFORMATION.—Any information 
received pursuant to subsection (a) shall be transmitted 
to the Department of Justice, the Department of Labor, 
the Department of Homeland Security, and to any other 
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relevant Federal agency for appropriate response. The At-
torney General, the Secretary of Labor, and the head of 
any other such relevant Federal agency shall establish a 
process to address any actions to be taken in response to 
such information. 
(c) ASSISTANCE FROM FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS.— 
The employee designated for receiving information pursu-
ant to subsection (a) should coordinate with foreign gov-
ernments or civil society organizations in the countries of 
origin of victims of severe forms of trafficking in persons, 
with the permission of and without compromising the safe-
ty of such victims, to ensure that such victims receive any 
additional support available. 
SEC. 113. HUMAN TRAFFICKING VICTIMS REINTEGRATION 
THROUGH EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—For the purpose described in 
subsection (b), the Secretary of Health and Human Serv-
ices may carry out a Human Trafficking Victims Re-
integration Through Employment Program. 
(b) PURPOSE.—The purpose of the Program shall be 
to prevent the re-exploitation of eligible individuals who 
have been removed from trafficking situations, by assist-
ing such individuals to integrate or reintegrate into society 
through the attainment of employment skills necessary to 
achieve self-sufficiency. 
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(c) SERVICES PROVIDED.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Services provided and fund-
ed by the Program shall include— 
(A) enrollment and participation in— 
(i) basic education, including literacy 
education and English as a second lan-
guage education; 
(ii) job-related skills training; 
(iii) vocational and certificate pro-
grams; and 
(iv) programs for attaining a regular 
high school diploma or its recognized 
equivalent; 
(B) life-skill training programs, including 
management of personal finances, self-care, and 
parenting classes; 
(C) re´sume´ creation and review; 
(D) interview coaching and counseling; 
(E) assistance with expungement of crimi-
nal records when such records are for non-
violent crimes that were committed as a con-
sequence of the eligible individual’s victimiza-
tion; 
(F) assistance with enrollment in college or 
technical school; and 
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(G) other programs and services that help 
eligible individuals to achieve self-sufficiency. 
(2) SERVICE PERIOD.—Eligible individuals may 
receive services through the Program for a period of 
not more than three years. 
(d) COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS.—Subject to the 
availability of appropriations, the Secretary of Health and 
Human Services shall enter into cooperative agreements 
with one or more eligible organizations to carry out this 
section. 
(e) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) The term ‘‘eligible individual’’ means a do-
mestic or foreign victim of human trafficking who is 
eligible to receive services under section 107 of the 
Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 
U.S.C. 7105), as amended by section 115 of this 
Act. 
(2) The ‘‘eligible organization’’ means a service 
provider meeting the following: 
(A) With respect to a service provider for 
trafficking victims served by the Program who 
are not United States citizens, the provider 
has— 
(i) expertise in serving foreign-born 
victims of human trafficking; 
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(ii) a national presence with local 
reach and strong local connections; and 
(iii) experience in utilizing national 
networks to serve victims and collecting 
data from local programs. 
(B) With respect to a service provider for 
trafficking victims served by the Program who 
are United States citizens, the provider has ex-
perience working with trafficking victims who 
are United States citizens, including those who 
have been identified as the victims of commer-
cial sexual exploitation as children. 
(3) The term ‘‘Program’’ means the Human 
Trafficking Victims Stabilization and Reintegration 
Through Employment Program under this section. 
(4) The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means the Secretary 
of Health and Human Services. 
(f) ALLOCATION OF FUNDS.—In allocating amounts 
made available for cooperative agreements under this sec-
tion between victims of human trafficking who are United 
States citizens and those who are not, the Secretary shall 
take into account the eligibility of victims for other Fed-
eral, State, and local services and funding. 
(g) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—Section 
113(b) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 
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(22 U.S.C. 7110(b)) is amended by striking ‘‘To carry out 
the purposes of section 107(b)’’ and inserting ‘‘To carry 
out the purposes of section 107(b) of this Act and section 
114 of the Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Pre-
vention and Protection Reauthorization Act of 2017’’. 
SEC. 114. MODIFICATION TO GRANTS FOR VICTIMS SERV-
ICES. 
Section 107(b)(2)(A) of the Trafficking Victims Pro-
tection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7105(b)(2)(A)) is amended 
by striking ‘‘programs for’’ and all that follows and insert-
ing the following: ‘‘programs for victims of human traf-
ficking, including programs that provide trauma-informed 
care or long-term housing options to such victims who 
are— 
‘‘(i) between the ages of 12 and 24 
and who are homeless, in foster care, or in-
volved in the criminal justice system; 
‘‘(ii) transitioning out of the foster 
care system; or 
‘‘(iii) women or girls in underserved 
populations.’’. 
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Subtitle B—Governmental Efforts 
To Prevent Human Trafficking 
SEC. 121. REQUIRED TRAINING TO PREVENT HUMAN TRAF-
FICKING FOR CERTAIN CONTRACTING AIR 
CARRIERS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 40118 of title 49, United 
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(g) TRAINING REQUIREMENTS.—The Administrator 
of General Services shall ensure that any contract entered 
into for provision of air transportation under this section 
requires that the contracting air carrier provides to the 
Administrator of General Services, the Secretary of Trans-
portation, the Administrator of the Transportation Secu-
rity Administration, and the Commissioner of U.S. Cus-
toms and Border Protection an annual report regarding— 
‘‘(1) the number of personnel trained in the de-
tection and reporting of potential human trafficking 
(as described in paragraphs (9) and (10) of section 
103 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 
2000 (22 U.S.C. 7102)), including the training re-
quired under section 44734(a)(4); 
‘‘(2) the number of notifications of potential 
human trafficking victims received from staff or 
other passengers; and 
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‘‘(3) whether the air carrier notified law en-
forcement at the relevant airport of the potential 
human trafficking victim for each such notification 
of potential human trafficking, and if so, when the 
notification was made.’’. 
(b) TRAINING
OF FLIGHT ATTENDANTS
AND PI-
LOTS.—Section 44734 of title 49, United States Code, is 
amended— 
(1) in the heading by inserting ‘‘and pilots’’ 
after ‘‘flight attendants’’; 
(2) in subsection (a)— 
(A) by inserting ‘‘and pilots’’ after ‘‘flight 
attendants’’; and 
(B) by inserting ‘‘airline-industry-specific’’ 
after ‘‘annual’’; and 
(3) in subsection (b) by inserting ‘‘and pilots’’ 
after ‘‘flight attendants’’. 
(c) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—The table of sec-
tions for chapter 447 of title 49, United States Code, is 
amended by striking the item related to section 44734 and 
inserting the following: 
‘‘44734. Training of flight attendants and pilots.’’. 
(d) APPLICABILITY.—The amendment made by sub-
section (a) shall apply to any contract entered into after 
the date of enactment of this Act. 
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SEC. 122. PRIORITY FOR USE OF FUNDS FOR LODGING EX-
PENSES 
AT 
ACCOMMODATIONS 
LACKING 
CERTAIN POLICIES RELATING TO CHILD SEX-
UAL EXPLOITATION. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subchapter I of chapter 57 of title 
5, United States Code, is further amended by adding at 
the end the following: 
‘‘§ 5713. Priority for use of funds for lodging expenses 
at accommodations lacking certain poli-
cies relating to child sexual exploitation. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—For the purpose of making pay-
ments under this chapter for lodging expenses each agency 
shall ensure that, to the extent practicable, any commer-
cial-lodging room nights for employees of that agency are 
booked in a preferred place of accommodation. 
‘‘(b) PREFERRED PLACE OF ACCOMMODATION DE-
FINED.—In this section, ‘preferred place of accommoda-
tion’ means a commercial place of accommodation that— 
‘‘(1) has a zero-tolerance policy in place regard-
ing the sexual exploitation of children (as described 
in section 103(9)(A) of the Trafficking Victims Pro-
tection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7102(9)(A))) within 
the accommodation; 
‘‘(2) has procedures in place to identify and re-
port any such exploitation to the appropriate au-
thorities; 
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‘‘(3) makes training materials available to all 
employees to prevent such exploitation; 
‘‘(4) has trained all employees annually on the 
identification of possible cases of such exploitation 
and procedures to report suspected abuse to the ap-
propriate authorities; 
‘‘(5) protects employees who report suspected 
cases of such exploitation according to the protocol 
identified in training; and 
‘‘(6) keeps records of the number of suspected 
cases of such exploitation, including the reasons for 
suspicion, title of employee who reported the sus-
picion, and where the report was made. 
‘‘(c) REGULATIONS REQUIRED.—The Administrator 
of General Services shall— 
‘‘(1) maintain a list of each preferred place of 
accommodation; and 
‘‘(2) issue such regulations as are necessary to 
carry out this section.’’. 
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—The table of sec-
tions for subchapter I of chapter 57 of title 5, United 
States Code, is further amended by adding at the end the 
following new item: 
‘‘5713. Priority for use of funds for lodging expenses at accommodations lacking 
certain policies relating to child sexual exploitation.’’. 
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SEC. 123. ENSURING UNITED STATES PROCUREMENT DOES 
NOT FUND HUMAN TRAFFICKING. 
Section 106 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act 
of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7104) is amended by adding at the 
end the following new subsection: 
‘‘(k) AGENCY ACTION TO PREVENT FUNDING OF 
HUMAN TRAFFICKING.— 
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Secretary of State, 
Secretary of Defense, Secretary of Labor, Adminis-
trator of the United States Agency for International 
Development, and Director of the Office of Manage-
ment and Budget shall each submit to the Adminis-
trator of General Services (who shall submit the re-
ports to the appropriate congressional committees), 
at the end of each fiscal year, a report that includes 
each of the following: 
‘‘(A) The name and contact information of 
the individual within the agency’s office of legal 
counsel or office of acquisition policy who is re-
sponsible for overseeing the implementation of 
subsection (g) of this section, title XVII of the 
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 
Year 2013 (22 U.S.C. 7104a et seq.), and any 
related regulation in the Federal Acquisition 
Regulation (including the Federal Acquisition 
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Regulation; Ending Trafficking in Persons (48 
C.F.R. Parts 1, 2, 9, 12, 22, 42, and 52)). 
‘‘(B) Agency action to ensure contractors 
are educated on the applicable laws and regula-
tions listed in subparagraph (A). 
‘‘(C) Agency action to ensure the acquisi-
tion workforce and agency officials understand 
implementation of the laws and regulations list-
ed in subparagraph (A), including best practices 
for— 
‘‘(i) ensuring compliance with such 
laws and regulations; 
‘‘(ii) assessing the serious, repeated, 
willful, or pervasive nature of any violation 
of such laws or regulations; and 
‘‘(iii) evaluating steps contractors 
have taken to correct any such violation. 
‘‘(D) The number of contracts containing 
language referring to the laws and regulations 
listed in subparagraph (A) and the number of 
contracts that did not contain any language re-
ferring to the laws and regulations listed in 
subparagraph (A). 
‘‘(E) The number of allegations of severe 
forms of trafficking in persons received and the 
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source of the allegation (contractor, subcon-
tractor, employee of contractor or subcon-
tractor, or an individual outside of the con-
tract). 
‘‘(F) The number of such allegations inves-
tigated by the agency, a summary of any find-
ings of such investigation, and any improve-
ments recommended by the agency to prevent 
such conduct from recurring. 
‘‘(G) The number of such allegations re-
ferred to the Attorney General for prosecution 
under section 3271 of title 18, United States 
Code, and the outcomes of such referrals. 
‘‘(H) Any remedial action taken as a result 
of such investigation, including whether— 
‘‘(i) a contractor or subcontractor (at 
any tier) was debarred or suspended due to 
a violation of a law or regulation relating 
to severe forms of trafficking in persons; 
or 
‘‘(ii) a contract was terminated pursu-
ant to subsection (g) as a result of such 
violation. 
‘‘(I) Any other assistance offered to agency 
contractors to ensure compliance with a law or 
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regulation relating to severe forms of traf-
ficking in persons. 
‘‘(J) Any interagency meetings or data 
sharing regarding suspended or disbarred con-
tractors or subcontractors (at any tier) for se-
vere forms of trafficking in persons. 
‘‘(K) Any contract with a contractor or 
subcontractor (at any tier) located outside the 
United States and the country location for each 
such contractor or subcontractor. 
‘‘(2) APPROPRIATE
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMIT-
TEES.—In this subsection, the term ‘appropriate 
congressional committees’ means— 
‘‘(A) the Committees on Foreign Affairs, 
Armed Services, and Education and the Work-
force of the House of Representatives; and 
‘‘(B) the Committees on Foreign Relations, 
Armed Services, and Health, Education, Labor, 
and Pensions of the Senate.’’. 
SEC. 124. TRAINING COURSE ON HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND 
GOVERNMENT CONTRACTING. 
Any curriculum (including any continuing education 
curriculum) for the acquisition workforce used by the Fed-
eral Acquisition Institute established under section 1201 
of title 41, United States Code, or the Defense Acquisition 
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