I 
117TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6552 
To reauthorize the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, and for 
other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 1, 2022 
Mr. SMITH of New Jersey (for himself, Ms. BASS, and Mr. MCCAUL) intro-
duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign 
Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Over-
sight and Reform, Education and Labor, and the Judiciary, for a period 
to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consider-
ation 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 2022’’. 
SEC. 2. TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
The table of contents for this Act is as follows: 
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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. 101. Modifications to grants to assist in the recognition of trafficking. 
Sec. 102. Human trafficking survivors employment and education program. 
Sec. 103. Extending sunset for Advisory Council on Human Trafficking. 
Subtitle B—Governmental Efforts To Prevent Human Trafficking 
Sec. 121. Priority for accommodation in places with policies relating to severe 
forms of human trafficking. 
Subtitle C—Monitoring Child, Forced, and Slave Labor 
Sec. 131. Amendments to Social Security Act. 
Sec. 132. Sense of Congress on submission of Department of Justice reports 
on time. 
Sec. 133. Sense of Congress on requiring child welfare agencies to report infor-
mation on missing and abducted foster children and youth. 
TITLE II—FIGHTING HUMAN TRAFFICKING ABROAD 
Sec. 201. Amendments to the International Megan’s Law. 
Sec. 202. Modifications to program to end modern slavery grants. 
Sec. 203. Amendments to tier standards. 
Sec. 204. Expanding prevention efforts at the United States Agency for Inter-
national Development. 
TITLE III—AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS 
Sec. 301. Extension of authorizations under the Victims of Trafficking and Vio-
lence Protection Act of 2000. 
Sec. 302. Extension of authorizations under the international Megan’s Law. 
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TITLE 
I—COMBATING 
TRAF-
FICKING IN PERSONS IN THE 
UNITED STATES 
Subtitle A—Programs To Support 
Victims and Persons Vulnerable 
to Human Trafficking 
SEC. 101. MODIFICATIONS TO GRANTS TO ASSIST IN THE 
RECOGNITION OF TRAFFICKING. 
(a) AMENDMENTS TO AUTHORITIES TO PREVENT 
TRAFFICKING.—Section 106(b)(2) of the Victims of Traf-
ficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 
7104(b)) is amended— 
(1) in the heading, by striking ‘‘GRANTS TO AS-
SIST IN THE RECOGNITION OF TRAFFICKING’’ and 
inserting ‘‘FREDERICK
DOUGLASS
HUMAN
TRAF-
FICKING PREVENTION EDUCATION GRANTS’’; 
(2) in subparagraph (B)— 
(A) in the matter preceding clause (i), by 
inserting ‘‘under a program named ‘Frederick 
Douglass Human Trafficking Prevention Edu-
cation Grants’ ’’ after ‘‘may award grants’’; and 
(B) in clause (ii), by inserting ‘‘, linguis-
tically accessible, and culturally responsive’’ 
after ‘‘age-appropriate’’; 
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(3) in the heading of subparagraph (C), by in-
serting ‘‘FOR FREDERICK DOUGLASS HUMAN TRAF-
FICKING
PREVENTION
EDUCATION
GRANTS’’ after 
‘‘PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS’’; 
(4) by amending subparagraph (D) to read as 
follows: 
‘‘(D) PRIORITY.—In awarding Frederick 
Douglass Human Trafficking Prevention Edu-
cation Grants under this paragraph, the Sec-
retary shall— 
‘‘(i) give priority to local educational 
agencies serving a high-intensity child sex 
trafficking area or an area with significant 
child labor trafficking; 
‘‘(ii) give additional priority to local 
educational agencies that partner with 
non-profit organizations specializing in 
human trafficking prevention education, 
law enforcement, and technology or social 
media companies, to assist in training ef-
forts to protect children from labor traf-
ficking and sexual exploitation and abuse 
including grooming, materials depicting the 
sexual abuse of children, and human traf-
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