I 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 863 
To establish a national human trafficking database at the Office for Victims 
of Crime of the Department of Justice, and to incentivize certain State 
agencies to report data to the database. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 31, 2025 
Mr. KILEY of California (for himself, Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia, and Ms. 
HAGEMAN) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on the Judiciary 
A BILL 
To establish a national human trafficking database at the 
Office for Victims of Crime of the Department of Justice, 
and to incentivize certain State agencies to report data 
to the database. 
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 ‘‘National Human Traf-
ficking Database Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. NATIONAL HUMAN TRAFFICKING DATABASE. 
Title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe 
Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10101 et seq.) is amended 
by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘PART PP—NATIONAL HUMAN TRAFFICKING 
DATABASE 
‘‘SEC. 3061. NATIONAL HUMAN TRAFFICKING DATABASE. 
‘‘(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
‘‘(1) ANTI-HUMAN
TRAFFICKING
ORGANIZA-
TION.—The term ‘anti-human trafficking organiza-
tion’ means an organization whose main objective is 
to address and combat human trafficking, including 
by— 
‘‘(A) supporting populations known to be 
at a higher risk of human trafficking; 
‘‘(B) raising awareness of human traf-
ficking; and 
‘‘(C) providing services to survivors of 
human trafficking. 
‘‘(2) COVERED STATE AGENCY.—The term ‘cov-
ered State agency’ means— 
‘‘(A) a State bureau of investigation or 
equivalent State law enforcement agency; or 
‘‘(B) a State agency other than an agency 
described in subparagraph (A) that is empow-
ered by the State to coordinate a statewide 
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human trafficking response, which may be the 
State public health agency or another agency as 
determined by the State. 
‘‘(3) DIRECTOR
OF
THE
OFFICE.—The term 
‘Director of the Office’ means the Director of the 
Office for Victims of Crime. 
‘‘(4) HUMAN TRAFFICKING.—The term ‘human 
trafficking’ means labor trafficking or sex traf-
ficking. 
‘‘(5) LABOR
TRAFFICKING.—The term ‘labor 
trafficking’ means conduct described in section 
103(11)(B) of the Trafficking Victims Protection 
Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7102(11)(B)). 
‘‘(6) PRIMARY SERVICE.—With respect to an 
anti-human trafficking organization, the term ‘pri-
mary service’ means the essential function of the or-
ganization, which may be— 
‘‘(A) preventing human trafficking; 
‘‘(B) identifying survivors of human traf-
ficking; 
‘‘(C) recovering survivors from human 
trafficking situations; or 
‘‘(D) providing support for survivors to 
exit human trafficking situations. 
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‘‘(7) SEX TRAFFICKING.—The term ‘sex traf-
ficking’ has the meaning given the term in section 
103(11)(A) of the Trafficking Victims Protection 
Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7102(11)(A)). 
‘‘(b) DUTIES OF OFFICE FOR VICTIMS OF CRIME.— 
‘‘(1) GRANTS.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—For each fiscal year 
for which amounts are made available to carry 
out this section, the Director of the Office shall 
award grants to covered State agencies to col-
lect and report to the Director of the Office 
human trafficking data, directly or by contract 
with a private or nonprofit organization with 
expertise and experience in the collection of 
human trafficking data, in accordance with sub-
section (c). 
‘‘(B) 
APPLICATION.—A 
covered 
State 
agency seeking a grant under this subsection 
shall submit an application to the Director of 
the Office at such time, in such manner, and 
containing such information as the Director of 
the Office may reasonably require. 
‘‘(C) GRANT CONDITION.—A covered State 
agency may not receive a grant under subpara-
graph (A) unless the agency certifies to the Di-
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rector of the Office that, not later than 180 
days after the date on which the agency re-
ceives the grant, the agency will identify how 
the agency will collect or ensure the collection 
and reporting of human trafficking data de-
scribed in subsection (c)(1)(A). 
‘‘(D) USE
OF
GRANT.—A covered State 
agency may only use a grant received under 
subparagraph (A) to collect and report the data 
described in section (c)(1)(A). 
‘‘(2) GUIDANCE FOR USE OF GRANT FUNDS.— 
Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment 
of the National Human Trafficking Database Act, 
the Director of the Office shall issue guidance that 
includes goals and guidelines for the use of grants 
awarded under paragraph (1). 
‘‘(c) DATABASE.— 
‘‘(1) ESTABLISHMENT.— 
‘‘(A) 
INITIAL
SUBMISSION
OF
STATE 
DATA.—Not later than 1 year after the date of 
enactment of the National Human Trafficking 
Database Act, each covered State agency that 
has received a grant under subsection (b)(1) 
shall report to the Director of the Office, for 
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the most recently ended fiscal year (as of that 
date of enactment) for the State— 
‘‘(i) where such data is available— 
‘‘(I) with respect to each county 
in the State— 
‘‘(aa) the number of pros-
ecutions, arrests, or convictions 
for human trafficking; 
‘‘(bb) 
aggregated 
and 
anonymized data from State-level 
human trafficking hotlines; 
‘‘(cc) 
aggregated 
and 
anonymized data from the Na-
tional Human Trafficking Hot-
line, operated by the Administra-
tion for Children and Families; 
‘‘(dd) 
aggregated 
and 
anonymized data from State-level 
children’s services agencies; 
‘‘(ee) 
aggregated 
and 
anonymized human trafficking 
data from the Office of Justice 
Services of the Bureau of Indian 
Affairs, including the Missing 
and Murdered Unit; 
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‘‘(ff) 
aggregated 
and 
anonymized human trafficking 
data from the Center for Coun-
tering Human Trafficking of the 
Department of Homeland Secu-
rity; 
‘‘(gg) the presence and like-
lihood of criminal activity known 
to be correlated with human traf-
ficking, including crimes of pros-
titution, drug distribution, sexual 
assault, and gang-related vio-
lence; and 
‘‘(hh) the number of sur-
vivors of human trafficking who 
have been served by nongovern-
mental human trafficking victim 
service organizations; 
‘‘(II) the name and primary serv-
ice of each anti-human trafficking or-
ganization operating in each county in 
the State; and 
‘‘(III) the total number of State- 
level human trafficking prosecutions, 
which the covered State agency shall 
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compile by collecting the necessary in-
formation from the prosecutor’s office 
for each county in the State, cat-
egorized by sex, race, citizenship, pri-
mary language, and prior convictions; 
and 
‘‘(ii) if any data described in clause (i) 
is not available, a statement explaining 
why the data is not available. 
‘‘(B) ESTABLISHMENT.—Not later than 18 
months after the date of enactment of the Na-
tional Human Trafficking Database Act, the 
Director of the Office shall publish on the inter-
net website of the Department of Justice a 
database that includes, for each State— 
‘‘(i) the data for each county in the 
State, as reported by the covered State 
agency under subparagraph (A)(i)(I), in 
accordance with subsection (d); 
‘‘(ii) the name and primary service of 
each anti-human trafficking organization 
operating in each county in the State, as 
reported by the covered State agency under 
subparagraph (A)(i)(II); 
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‘‘(iii) the total number of State-level 
human trafficking prosecutions, as re-
ported by the covered State agency under 
subparagraph (A)(i)(III); 
‘‘(iv) any statement from the covered 
State agency of the State described in sub-
paragraph (A)(ii); 
‘‘(v)(I) except as provided in sub-
clause (II)— 
‘‘(aa) the 10 counties in the 
State with the highest rates of human 
trafficking; and 
‘‘(bb) the 10 counties in the 
State with the lowest rates of human 
trafficking; or 
‘‘(II) if the State has fewer than 20 
counties, a list of the counties in the State, 
ranked by rate of human trafficking from 
highest to lowest; and 
‘‘(vi) the number of Federal prosecu-
tions, arrests, or convictions for human 
trafficking occurring in the State. 
‘‘(C) COLLECTION
OF
DATA
REGARDING 
ANTI-HUMAN
TRAFFICKING
ORGANIZATIONS.— 
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In carrying out subparagraph (A)(ii), a covered 
State agency may coordinate with— 
‘‘(i) the Administration for Children 
and Families, in its capacity as the oper-
ator of the National Human Trafficking 
Hotline; 
‘‘(ii) the Office for Victims of Crime; 
‘‘(iii) the Office on Violence Against 
Women; 
‘‘(iv) the Bureau of Justice Statistics; 
‘‘(v) any office of the United States 
attorney in the State; 
‘‘(vi) the Office of Justice Services of 
the Bureau of Indian Affairs; 
‘‘(vii) the Center for Countering 
Human Trafficking of the Department of 
Homeland Security; 
‘‘(viii) a relevant State-level human 
trafficking task force or Missing and Mur-
dered Indigenous People task force; and 
‘‘(ix) the Office of National Drug 
Control Policy, including the High Inten-
sity Drug Trafficking Areas Program. 
‘‘(2) ADMINISTRATION.— 
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Congress the contents of the database established 
under paragraph (1)(B) for that fiscal year. 
‘‘(d) SURVIVOR CONFIDENTIALITY.—In order to en-
sure the safety of survivors of human trafficking and their 
families, a covered State agency that receives a grant 
under subsection (b)(1), in collecting and reporting data 
under this section, shall protect the confidentiality and 
privacy of those survivors and their families. 
‘‘(e) RULES OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this 
section shall be construed— 
‘‘(1) to permit the Department of Justice to 
make any funding decisions based on the collected 
data described in subsection (c); or 
‘‘(2) to permit the Department of Justice, or 
any covered State agency that receives a grant 
under subsection (b)(1), to demand, access, or pub-
licize personally identifying information about sur-
vivors of human trafficking from any source. 
‘‘(f) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—There are authorized to be 
appropriated to the Director of the Office for each 
of fiscal years 2025 through 2028— 
‘‘(A) $50,000,000 to carry out subsection 
(b); and 
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‘‘(B) $1,000,000 to carry out paragraphs 
(1)(B), (2)(B), and (3) of subsection (c). 
‘‘(2) AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS.—The amounts 
authorized under paragraph (1) shall remain avail-
able until expended.’’. 
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