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114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 460 
To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to train Department of Home-
land Security personnel how to effectively deter, detect, disrupt, and 
prevent human trafficking during the course of their primary roles and 
responsibilities, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 21, 2015 
Mr. WALKER (for himself, Mr. MCCAUL, Ms. LORETTA SANCHEZ of Cali-
fornia, Mr. MEADOWS, Mr. HUDSON, Mr. KATKO, Mrs. WAGNER, Mrs. 
WALORSKI, Mr. ADERHOLT, and Mr. PITTENGER) introduced the fol-
lowing bill; which was referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, 
and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee con-
cerned 
A BILL 
To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to train De-
partment of Homeland Security personnel how to effec-
tively deter, detect, disrupt, and prevent human traf-
ficking during the course of their primary roles and 
responsibilities, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Human Trafficking 
Detection Act of 2015’’. 
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) DEPARTMENT.—The term ‘‘Department’’ 
means the Department of Homeland Security. 
(2) HUMAN TRAFFICKING.—The term ‘‘human 
trafficking’’ means an act or practice described in 
paragraph (9) or (10) of section 103 of the Traf-
ficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 
7102). 
(3) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 
the Secretary of Homeland Security. 
SEC. 3. TRAINING FOR DEPARTMENT PERSONNEL TO IDEN-
TIFY HUMAN TRAFFICKING. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days after the 
date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall imple-
ment a program to— 
(1) train and periodically retrain relevant 
Transportation Security Administration, U.S. Cus-
toms and Border Protection, and other Department 
personnel that the Secretary considers appropriate, 
how to effectively deter, detect, and disrupt human 
trafficking, and, where appropriate, interdict a sus-
pected perpetrator of human trafficking, during the 
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course of their primary roles and responsibilities; 
and 
(2) ensure that the personnel referred to in 
paragraph (1) regularly receive current information 
on matters related to the detection of human traf-
ficking, including information that becomes available 
outside of the Department’s initial or periodic re-
training schedule, to the extent relevant to their offi-
cial duties and consistent with applicable informa-
tion and privacy laws. 
(b) TRAINING DESCRIBED.—The training referred to 
in subsection (a) may be conducted through in-class or 
virtual learning capabilities, and shall include— 
(1) methods for identifying suspected victims of 
human trafficking and, where appropriate, perpetra-
tors of human trafficking; 
(2) for appropriate personnel, methods to ap-
proach a suspected victim of human trafficking, 
where appropriate, in a manner that is sensitive to 
the suspected victim and is not likely to alert a sus-
pected perpetrator of human trafficking; 
(3) training that is most appropriate for a par-
ticular location or environment in which the per-
sonnel receiving such training perform their official 
duties; 
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(4) other topics determined by the Secretary to 
be appropriate; and 
(5) a post-training evaluation for personnel re-
ceiving the training. 
(c) TRAINING CURRICULUM REVIEW.—The Secretary 
shall annually reassess the training program established 
under subsection (a) to ensure it is consistent with current 
techniques, patterns, and trends associated with human 
trafficking. 
SEC. 4. CERTIFICATION AND REPORT TO CONGRESS. 
(a) CERTIFICATION.—Not later than one year after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall 
certify to the appropriate congressional committees that 
all personnel referred to in section 3(a) have successfully 
completed the training required under that section. 
(b) REPORT TO CONGRESS.—Not later than one year 
after the date of the enactment of this Act and annually 
thereafter, the Secretary shall report to the appropriate 
congressional committees the overall effectiveness of the 
program required by this Act, the number of cases re-
ported by Department personnel in which human traf-
ficking was suspected and, of those cases, the number of 
cases that were confirmed cases of such trafficking. 
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SEC. 5. ASSISTANCE TO NON-FEDERAL ENTITIES. 
The Secretary may provide training curricula to any 
State, local, or tribal government or private organization 
to assist such entity in establishing its program of training 
to identify human trafficking, upon request from such en-
tity. 
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