(A) by inserting ‘‘and Congress’’ after 
‘‘public’’; and 
(B) by inserting ‘‘, including the United 
States,’’ after ‘‘countries’’. 
(b) ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES OF THE DEPARTMENT 
OF STATE.—Section 105 of the Trafficking Victims Pro-
tection Reauthorization Act of 2005 (22 U.S.C. 7112) is 
amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(c) ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES OF THE DEPARTMENT 
OF STATE.— 
‘‘(1) SHORT TITLE.—This subsection may be 
cited as the ‘Business Transparency on Trafficking 
and Slavery Act’. 
‘‘(2) DISCLOSURE.—The Secretary of State, 
acting through the Ambassador-at-Large for Com-
bating Human Trafficking, shall encourage any per-
son described in paragraph (3)(B) to disclose on an 
annual basis on the person’s website and to the Sec-
retary of State any measures such person has taken 
during the year to identify and address conditions of 
forced labor, slavery, human trafficking, and the 
worst forms of child labor within such person’s sup-
ply chains. Such disclosure should include the fol-
lowing information under a heading ‘Policies to Ad-
dress Forced Labor, Slavery, Human Trafficking 
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and the Worst Forms of Child Labor’ describing to 
what extent, if any, the person conducts any of the 
following activities: 
‘‘(A) Maintains a policy to identify and 
eliminate risks of forced labor, slavery, human 
trafficking, and the worst forms of child labor 
within its supply chain. If the person maintains 
such a policy, the disclosure should include the 
text of the policy or a substantive description of 
the elements of the policy. 
‘‘(B) Maintains a policy prohibiting the use 
of the person’s corporate products, facilities, or 
services to obtain or maintain someone under 
conditions of forced labor, slavery, human traf-
ficking, and the worst forms of child labor. 
‘‘(C) Engages in verification of product 
supply chains to evaluate and address risks of 
forced labor, slavery, human trafficking and the 
worst forms of child labor. The disclosure 
should— 
‘‘(i) describe the greatest risks identi-
fied within the supply chain, and the meas-
ures taken toward eliminating those risks; 
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‘‘(ii) specify whether the verification 
was or was not conducted by a third party; 
and 
‘‘(iii) specify whether the verification 
process includes consultations with inde-
pendent unions, workers’ associations, or 
workers within workplaces and incor-
porates the resulting certification or writ-
ten comments from such independent 
union, workers’ associations, or workers. 
‘‘(D) Ensures that audits of suppliers are 
conducted to evaluate supplier compliance with 
the person’s company standards for eliminating 
forced labor, slavery, human trafficking, and 
the worst forms of child labor in supply chains. 
The disclosure should specify if the verification 
was not an independent, unannounced audit. 
‘‘(E) Assesses supply chain management 
and procurement systems of suppliers in the 
person’s supply chain, to verify whether said 
suppliers have in place appropriate systems to 
identify risks of forced labor, slavery, human 
trafficking, and the worst forms of child labor 
within their own supply chain. 
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