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tors, and social service providers in addressing 
child human trafficking; and 
‘‘(C) has developed a workable, multi-dis-
ciplinary plan to combat child human traf-
ficking.’’; and 
(3) in subsection (j) (as so redesignated)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘Secretary of Health and 
Human Services’’ and inserting ‘‘Attorney Gen-
eral, in consultation with the Secretary of 
Health and Human Services,’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘fiscal years 2008 through 
2011’’ and inserting ‘‘fiscal years 2015 through 
2019’’. 
SEC. 3. AMENDMENTS TO THE VICTIMS OF CHILD ABUSE 
ACT OF 1990. 
The Victims of Child Abuse Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 
13001 et seq.) is amended— 
(1) in section 212(5) (42 U.S.C. 13001a(5)), by 
inserting ‘‘, including human trafficking and the 
production of child pornography’’ before the semi-
colon at the end; and 
(2) in section 214 (42 U.S.C. 13002)— 
(A) by redesignating subsections (b), (c), 
and (d) as subsections (c), (d), and (e), respec-
tively; and 
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(B) by inserting after subsection (a) the 
following: 
‘‘(b) DIRECT SERVICES FOR VICTIMS OF CHILD POR-
NOGRAPHY.—The Administrator, in coordination with the 
Director and with the Director of the Office of Victims 
of Crime, may make grants to develop and implement spe-
cialized programs to identify and provide direct services 
to victims of child pornography.’’. 
SEC. 4. STREAMLINING FEDERAL, STATE, AND LOCAL 
HUMAN TRAFFICKING INVESTIGATIONS. 
Section 2516 of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended— 
(1) in paragraph (1)(C)— 
(A) by inserting before ‘‘section 1591’’ the 
following: ‘‘section 1581 (peonage; obstructing 
enforcement), section 1584 (sale into involun-
tary servitude), section 1589 (forced labor), sec-
tion 1590 (trafficking with respect to peonage, 
slavery, 
involuntary 
servitude, 
or 
forced 
labor),’’; and 
(B) by inserting before ‘‘section 1751’’ the 
following: ‘‘section 1592 (unlawful conduct with 
respect to documents in furtherance of traf-
ficking, peonage, slavery, involuntary servitude, 
or forced labor),’’; and 
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(2) in paragraph (2), by inserting ‘‘human traf-
ficking, offenses pertaining to child pornography, 
child sexual abuse, coercion and enticement of chil-
dren,’’ after ‘‘kidnapping,’’. 
SEC. 5. ENHANCING HUMAN TRAFFICKING REPORTING. 
Section 3702 of the Crime Control Act of 1990 (42 
U.S.C. 5780) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘and’’ at the 
end; and 
(2) in paragraph (4)— 
(A) in the matter preceding subparagraph 
(A), by striking ‘‘paragraph (2)’’ and inserting 
‘‘paragraph (3)’’; 
(B) in subparagraph (A), by inserting 
‘‘and a photograph taken within the previous 
180 days’’ after ‘‘dental records’’; 
(C) in subparagraph (B), by striking 
‘‘and’’ at the end; 
(D) by redesignating subparagraph (C) as 
subparagraph (D); and 
(E) by inserting after subparagraph (B) 
the following: 
‘‘(C) notify the National Center for Miss-
ing and Exploited Children of each report re-
ceived relating to a child reported missing from 
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a foster care family home or childcare institu-
tion; and’’. 
SEC. 6. REDUCING DEMAND FOR SEX TRAFFICKING. 
Section 1591 of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)(1), by striking ‘‘or main-
tains’’ and inserting ‘‘maintains, patronizes, or solic-
its’’; 
(2) in subsection (b)— 
(A) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘or ob-
tained’’ and inserting ‘‘obtained, patronized, or 
solicited’’; and 
(B) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘or ob-
tained’’ and inserting ‘‘obtained, patronized, or 
solicited’’; and 
(3) in subsection (c)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘or maintained’’ and in-
serting ‘‘, maintained, patronized, or solicited’’; 
and 
(B) by striking ‘‘knew that the person’’ 
and inserting ‘‘knew, or recklessly disregarded 
the fact, that the person’’. 
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SEC. 7. USING EXISTING TASK FORCES TO TARGET OF-
FENDERS WHO EXPLOIT CHILDREN. 
Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment 
of this Act, the Attorney General shall ensure that all task 
forces and working groups within the Violent Crimes 
Against Children Program engage in activities, programs, 
or operations to increase the investigative capabilities of 
State and local law enforcement officers in the detection, 
investigation, and prosecution of persons who patronize, 
or solicit children for sex. 
SEC. 8. HOLDING SEX TRAFFICKERS ACCOUNTABLE. 
Section 2423(g) of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended by striking ‘‘a preponderance of the evidence’’ 
and inserting ‘‘clear and convincing evidence’’. 
SEC. 9. OVERSIGHT AND ACCOUNTABILITY. 
(a) AUDIT REQUIREMENT.—In fiscal year 2015, and 
each fiscal year thereafter, the Inspector General of the 
Department of Justice shall conduct audits of covered 
grantees to prevent waste, fraud, and abuse of such funds. 
The Inspector General shall determine the appropriate 
number of covered grantees to be audited each year. 
(b) MANDATORY EXCLUSION.—A covered grantee 
that is found to have an unresolved audit finding shall 
not be eligible for an allocation of grant funds from the 
covered grant program from which it received a grant 
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award during the first 2 fiscal years beginning after the 
end of the 12-month period described in subsection (g)(3). 
(c) REIMBURSEMENT.—If a covered grantee is 
awarded funds under the covered grant program from 
which it received a grant award during the 2-fiscal-year 
period during which the covered grantee is ineligible for 
an allocation of grant funds as a result of subsection (b), 
the Attorney General shall— 
(1) deposit an amount equal to the amount of 
the grant funds that were improperly awarded to the 
covered grantee into the General Fund of the Treas-
ury; and 
(2) seek to recoup the costs of the repayment 
to the Fund from the covered grantee that was erro-
neously awarded grant funds. 
(d) NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION REQUIREMENTS.— 
(1) DEFINITION.—For purposes of this section, 
the term ‘‘nonprofit’’, when used with respect to an 
organization, means an organization that is de-
scribed in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue 
Code of 1986 and is exempt from taxation under 
section 501(a) of such Code. 
(2) PROHIBITION.—A nonprofit organization 
that holds money in offshore accounts for the pur-
pose of avoiding paying the tax described in section 
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511(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, shall 
not be eligible to receive, directly or indirectly, any 
funds from a covered grant program. 
(3) DISCLOSURE.—Each nonprofit organization 
that is a covered grantee shall disclose in its applica-
tion for such a grant, as a condition of receipt of 
such a grant, the compensation of its officers, direc-
tors, and trustees. Such disclosure shall include a 
description of the criteria relied upon to determine 
such compensation. 
(e) CONFERENCE EXPENDITURES.— 
(1) LIMITATION.—No amounts made available 
under a covered grant program may be used to host 
or support a conference that uses more than 
$20,000 in funds made available by the Department 
of Justice unless the Deputy Attorney General or 
the appropriate Assistant Attorney General, Direc-
tor, or principal deputy (as designated by the Dep-
uty Attorney General) provides prior written ap-
proval that the funds may be expended to host or 
support such conference, except that a conference 
that uses more than $20,000 in such funds, but less 
than $500 in such funds for each attendee of the 
conference, shall not be subject to the limitation 
under this paragraph. 
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(2) WRITTEN
APPROVAL.—Written approval 
under paragraph (1) shall include a written estimate 
of all costs associated with the conference, including 
the cost of all food, beverages, audio-visual equip-
ment, honoraria for speakers, and entertainment. 
(3) REPORT.—The Deputy Attorney General 
shall submit an annual report to the Committee on 
the Judiciary of the Senate and the Committee on 
the Judiciary of the House of Representatives on all 
conference expenditures approved under this sub-
section. 
(f) PROHIBITION ON LOBBYING ACTIVITY.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Amounts made available 
under a covered grant program may not be used by 
any covered grantee to— 
(A) lobby any representative of the Depart-
ment of Justice regarding the award of grant 
funding; or 
(B) lobby any representative of the Federal 
Government or a State, local, or tribal govern-
ment regarding the award of grant funding. 
(2) PENALTY.—If the Attorney General deter-
mines that a covered grantee has violated paragraph 
(1), the Attorney General shall— 
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(A) require the covered grantee to repay 
the grant in full; and 
(B) prohibit the covered grantee from re-
ceiving a grant under the covered grant pro-
gram from which it received a grant award dur-
ing at least the 5-year period beginning on the 
date of such violation. 
(g) DEFINITIONS.—In this section, the following defi-
nitions apply: 
(1) The term ‘‘covered grant program’’ means 
the following: 
(A) The grant program under section 203 
of the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthor-
ization Act of 2005 (42 U.S.C. 14044b). 
(B) The grant programs under section 214 
and 214A of the Victims of Child Abuse Act of 
1990 (42 U.S.C. 13002, 13003). 
(2) The term ‘‘covered grantee’’ means a recipi-
ent of a grant from a covered grant program. 
(3) The term ‘‘unresolved audit finding’’ means 
an audit report finding in a final audit report of the 
Inspector General of the Department of Justice that 
a covered grantee has used grant funds awarded to 
that grantee under a covered grant program for an 
unauthorized expenditure or otherwise unallowable 
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cost that is not closed or resolved during the 12- 
month period beginning on the date on which the 
final audit report is issued. 
SEC. 10. CRIME VICTIMS’ RIGHTS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 3771 of title 18, United 
States Code, is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a), by adding at the end the 
following: 
‘‘(9) The right to be informed in a timely man-
ner of any plea agreement or deferred prosecution 
agreement. 
‘‘(10) The right to be informed of the rights 
under this section and the services described in sec-
tion 503(c) of the Victims’ Rights and Restitution 
Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 10607(c)) and provided con-
tact information for the Office of the Victims’ 
Rights Ombudsman of the Department of Justice.’’; 
(2) in subsection (d)(3), in the fifth sentence, 
by inserting ‘‘, unless the litigants, with the approval 
of the court, have stipulated to a different time pe-
riod for consideration’’ before the period; and 
(3) in subsection (e)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘this chapter, the term’’ 
and inserting the following: ‘‘this chapter: 
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‘‘(1) COURT OF APPEALS.—The term ‘court of 
appeals’ means— 
‘‘(A) the United States court of appeals for 
the judicial district in which a defendant is 
being prosecuted; or 
‘‘(B) for a prosecution in the Superior 
Court of the District of Columbia, the District 
of Columbia Court of Appeals. 
‘‘(2) CRIME VICTIM.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The term’’; 
(B) by striking ‘‘In the case’’ and inserting 
the following: 
‘‘(B) MINORS AND CERTAIN OTHER VIC-
TIMS.—In the case’’; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(3) DISTRICT
COURT; COURT.—The terms 
‘district court’ and ‘court’ include the Superior 
Court of the District of Columbia.’’. 
(b) APPELLATE REVIEW OF PETITIONS RELATING 
TO CRIME VICTIMS’ RIGHTS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Section 3771(d)(3) of title 
18, United States Code, as amended by subsection 
(a)(2) of this section, is amended by inserting after 
the fifth sentence the following: ‘‘In deciding such 
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application, the court of appeals shall apply ordinary 
standards of appellate review.’’. 
(2) APPLICATION.—The amendment made by 
paragraph (1) shall apply with respect to any peti-
tion for a writ of mandamus filed under section 
3771(d)(3) of title 18, United States Code, that is 
pending on the date of enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 11. SENSE OF CONGRESS. 
It is the sense of Congress that— 
(1) child human trafficking (as such term is de-
fined in section 203(i) of the Trafficking Victims 
Protection Reauthorization Act of 2005 (42 U.S.C. 
14044b), as added by this Act) has no place in a civ-
ilized society, and that persons who commit crimes 
relating to child human trafficking should be pros-
ecuted to the fullest extent of the law; 
(2) the United States, as a leader in monitoring 
and combating human trafficking throughout the 
world, must hold all nations to the same standards 
to which we hold our Nation; 
(3) those who obtain, solicit, or patronize a vic-
tim of trafficking for the purpose of engaging in a 
commercial sex act with that person, are committing 
a human trafficking offense under Federal law; 
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(4) the demand for commercial sex is a primary 
cause of the human rights violation of human traf-
ficking, and the elimination of that human rights 
violation requires the elimination of that demand; 
(5) United States citizens or lawful permanent 
residents who are victims of severe forms of traf-
ficking are not required to obtain an official certifi-
cation from the Secretary of Health and Human 
Services in order to access any of the specialized 
services described in section 107 of the Trafficking 
Victims Protection Act of 2000 or any other Federal 
benefits and protections to which they are otherwise 
entitled; and 
(6) as matters stand on the date of enactment 
of this Act, there are insufficient services and pro-
grams for victims of severe forms of human traf-
ficking in the United States, including United States 
citizens and lawful permanent residents. 
SEC. 12. CLARIFYING THE BENEFITS AND PROTECTIONS 
OFFERED TO DOMESTIC VICTIMS OF HUMAN 
TRAFFICKING. 
Section 107(b) of the Trafficking Victims Protection 
Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7105(b)) is amended— 
(1) by redesignating subparagraph (F), as sub-
paragraph (G); 
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(2) by redesignating subparagraph (G), as sub-
paragraph (H); and 
(3) by inserting after subparagraph (E) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(F) NO REQUIREMENT OF OFFICIAL CER-
TIFICATION FOR UNITED STATES CITIZENS AND 
LAWFUL PERMANENT RESIDENTS.—Nothing in 
this section may be construed to require United 
States citizens or lawful permanent residents 
who are victims of severe forms of trafficking to 
obtain an official certification from the Sec-
retary of Health and Human Services in order 
to access any of the specialized services de-
scribed in this subsection or any other Federal 
benefits and protections to which they are oth-
erwise entitled.’’. 
Passed the House of Representatives January 27, 
2015. 
Attest: 
KAREN L. HAAS, 
Clerk. 
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