H. R. 3244
One Hundred Sixth Congress
of the
United States of America
AT THE SECOND SESSION
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Monday,
the twenty-fourth day of January, two thousand
An Act
To combat trafficking in persons, especially into the sex trade, slavery, and involun-
tary servitude, to reauthorize certain Federal programs to prevent violence against
women, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of
the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Victims of Trafficking and
Violence Protection Act of 2000’’.
SEC. 2. ORGANIZATION OF ACT INTO DIVISIONS; TABLE OF CONTENTS.
(a) DIVISIONS.—This Act is organized into three divisions, as
follows:
(1) DIVISION A.—Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000.
(2) DIVISION B.—Violence Against Women Act of 2000.
(3) DIVISION C.—Miscellaneous Provisions.
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for this Act
is as follows:
Sec.1.Short title.
Sec.2.Organization of Act into divisions; table of contents.
DIVISION A—TRAFFICKING VICTIMS PROTECTION ACT OF 2000
Sec.101.Short title.
Sec.102.Purposes and findings.
Sec.103.Definitions.
Sec.104.Annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices.
Sec.105.Interagency Task Force To Monitor and Combat Trafficking.
Sec.106.Prevention of trafficking.
Sec.107.Protection and assistance for victims of trafficking.
Sec.108.Minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking.
Sec.109.Assistance to foreign countries to meet minimum standards.
Sec.110.Actions against governments failing to meet minimum standards.
Sec.111.Actions against significant traffickers in persons.
Sec.112.Strengthening prosecution and punishment of traffickers.
Sec.113.Authorizations of appropriations.
DIVISION B—VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN ACT OF 2000
Sec.1001.Short title.
Sec.1002.Definitions.
Sec.1003.Accountability and oversight.
TITLE I—STRENGTHENING LAW ENFORCEMENT TO REDUCE VIOLENCE
AGAINST WOMEN
Sec.1101.Full faith and credit enforcement of protection orders.
Sec.1102.Role of courts.
Sec.1103.Reauthorization of STOP grants.
Sec.1104.Reauthorization of grants to encourage arrest policies.
Sec.1105.Reauthorization of rural domestic violence and child abuse enforcement
grants.
Sec.1106.National stalker and domestic violence reduction.
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Sec.1107.Amendments to domestic violence and stalking offenses.
Sec.1108.School and campus security.
Sec.1109.Dating violence.
TITLE II—STRENGTHENING SERVICES TO VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE
Sec.1201.Legal assistance for victims.
Sec.1202.Shelter services for battered women and children.
Sec.1203.Transitional housing assistance for victims of domestic violence.
Sec.1204.National domestic violence hotline.
Sec.1205.Federal victims counselors.
Sec.1206.Study of State laws regarding insurance discrimination against victims of
violence against women.
Sec.1207.Study of workplace effects from violence against women.
Sec.1208.Study of unemployment compensation for victims of violence against
women.
Sec.1209.Enhancing protections for older and disabled women from domestic
violence and sexual assault.
TITLE III—LIMITING THE EFFECTS OF VIOLENCE ON CHILDREN
Sec.1301.Safe havens for children pilot program.
Sec.1302.Reauthorization of victims of child abuse programs.
Sec.1303.Report on effects of parental kidnapping laws in domestic violence cases.
TITLE IV—STRENGTHENING EDUCATION AND TRAINING TO COMBAT
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
Sec.1401.Rape prevention and education.
Sec.1402.Education and training to end violence against and abuse of women with
disabilities.
Sec.1403.Community initiatives.
Sec.1404.Development of research agenda identified by the Violence Against
Women Act of 1994.
Sec.1405.Standards, practice, and training for sexual assault forensic examinations.
Sec.1406.Education and training for judges and court personnel.
Sec.1407.Domestic Violence Task Force.
TITLE V—BATTERED IMMIGRANT WOMEN
Sec.1501.Short title.
Sec.1502.Findings and purposes.
Sec.1503.Improved access to immigration protections of the Violence Against
Women Act of 1994 for battered immigrant women.
Sec.1504.Improved access to cancellation of removal and suspension of deportation
under the Violence Against Women Act of 1994.
Sec.1505.Offering equal access to immigration protections of the Violence Against
Women Act of 1994 for all qualified battered immigrant self-petitioners.
Sec.1506.Restoring immigration protections under the Violence Against Women Act
of 1994.
Sec.1507.Remedying problems with implementation of the immigration provisions of
the Violence Against Women Act of 1994.
Sec.1508.Technical correction to qualified alien definition for battered immigrants.
Sec.1509.Access to Cuban Adjustment Act for battered immigrant spouses and
children.
Sec.1510.Access to the Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act for
battered spouses and children.
Sec.1511.Access to the Haitian Refugee Fairness Act of 1998 for battered spouses
and children.
Sec.1512.Access to services and legal representation for battered immigrants.
Sec.1513.Protection for certain crime victims including victims of crimes against
women.
TITLE VI—MISCELLANEOUS
Sec.1601.Notice requirements for sexually violent offenders.
Sec.1602.Teen suicide prevention study.
Sec.1603.Decade of pain control and research.
DIVISION C—MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
Sec.2001.Aimee’s law.
Sec.2002.Payment of anti-terrorism judgments.
Sec.2003.Aid to victims of terrorism.
Sec.2004.Twenty-first amendment enforcement.
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DIVISION A—TRAFFICKING VICTIMS
PROTECTION ACT OF 2000
SEC. 101. SHORT TITLE.
This division may be cited as the ‘‘Trafficking Victims Protection
Act of 2000’’.
SEC. 102. PURPOSES AND FINDINGS.
(a) PURPOSES.—The purposes of this division are to combat
trafficking in persons, a contemporary manifestation of slavery
whose victims are predominantly women and children, to ensure
just and effective punishment of traffickers, and to protect their
victims.
(b) FINDINGS.—Congress finds that:
(1) As the 21st century begins, the degrading institution
of slavery continues throughout the world. Trafficking in per-
sons is a modern form of slavery, and it is the largest manifesta-
tion of slavery today. At least 700,000 persons annually, pri-
marily women and children, are trafficked within or across
international borders. Approximately 50,000 women and chil-
dren are trafficked into the United States each year.
(2) Many of these persons are trafficked into the inter-
national sex trade, often by force, fraud, or coercion. The sex
industry has rapidly expanded over the past several decades.
It involves sexual exploitation of persons, predominantly women
and girls, involving activities related to prostitution, pornog-
raphy, sex tourism, and other commercial sexual services. The
low status of women in many parts of the world has contributed
to a burgeoning of the trafficking industry.
(3) Trafficking in persons is not limited to the sex industry.
This growing transnational crime also includes forced labor
and involves significant violations of labor, public health, and
human rights standards worldwide.
(4) Traffickers primarily target women and girls, who are
disproportionately affected by poverty, the lack of access to
education, chronic unemployment, discrimination, and the lack
of economic opportunities in countries of origin. Traffickers
lure women and girls into their networks through false promises
of decent working conditions at relatively good pay as nannies,
maids, dancers, factory workers, restaurant workers, sales
clerks, or models. Traffickers also buy children from poor fami-
lies and sell them into prostitution or into various types of
forced or bonded labor.
(5) Traffickers often transport victims from their home
communities to unfamiliar destinations, including foreign coun-
tries away from family and friends, religious institutions, and
other sources of protection and support, leaving the victims
defenseless and vulnerable.
(6) Victims are often forced through physical violence to
engage in sex acts or perform slavery-like labor. Such force
includes rape and other forms of sexual abuse, torture, starva-
tion, imprisonment, threats, psychological abuse, and coercion.
(7) Traffickers often make representations to their victims
that physical harm may occur to them or others should the
victim escape or attempt to escape. Such representations can