I 
115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2268 
To authorize the Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delin-
quency Prevention of the Department of Justice to award grants to 
local educational agencies to establish, expand, and support programs 
to train school staff to recognize and respond to signs of labor and 
sex trafficking and to provide classroom curricula to students on how 
to avoid becoming victims of labor and sex trafficking. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 1, 2017 
Mrs. DAVIS of California (for herself, Mrs. WAGNER, Mr. KINZINGER, and Ms. 
JENKINS of Kansas) introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
the Committee on Education and the Workforce 
A BILL 
To authorize the Administrator of the Office of Juvenile 
Justice and Delinquency Prevention of the Department 
of Justice to award grants to local educational agencies 
to establish, expand, and support programs to train 
school staff to recognize and respond to signs of labor 
and sex trafficking and to provide classroom curricula 
to students on how to avoid becoming victims of labor 
and sex trafficking. 
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 ‘‘Empowering Edu-
cators to Prevent Trafficking Act’’. 
SEC. 2. GRANTS FOR TRAINING SCHOOL STAFF TO RECOG-
NIZE AND RESPOND TO SIGNS OF LABOR AND 
SEX TRAFFICKING. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Administrator of the Office 
of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention of the De-
partment of Justice may award grants to local educational 
agencies to establish, expand, and support programs— 
(1) to train school staff to recognize and re-
spond to signs of labor trafficking and sex traf-
ficking; and 
(2) to provide classroom curricula to students 
on how to avoid becoming victims of labor traf-
ficking and sex trafficking. 
(b) PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS.—A program funded 
through a grant under this section shall include— 
(1) training on— 
(A) indicators that an individual is a vic-
tim or potential victim of labor trafficking or 
sex trafficking; 
(B) options and procedures for referring 
such an individual, as appropriate, to— 
(i) information on such trafficking; 
and 
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(ii) legal, social, and health services 
for victims of such trafficking; 
(C) reporting requirements and procedures 
in accordance with applicable Federal and State 
law; and 
(D) how to administer classroom curricula 
provided pursuant to subsection (a)(2); and 
(2) a plan, developed and implemented in con-
sultation with local law enforcement authorities, to 
ensure the safety of school staff reporting such traf-
ficking. 
(c) PRIORITY.—In awarding grants under this sec-
tion, the Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice 
and Delinquency Prevention of the Department of Justice 
shall give priority to local educational agencies serving a 
high-intensity child sex trafficking area. 
(d) DEFINITIONS.—In this Act: 
(1) ESEA TERMS.—The terms ‘‘elementary 
school’’; ‘‘local educational agency’’; ‘‘other staff’’; 
and ‘‘secondary school’’ have the meanings given the 
terms in section 8101 of the Elementary and Sec-
ondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801). 
(2) HIGH-INTENSITY CHILD SEX TRAFFICKING 
AREA.—The term ‘‘high-intensity child sex traf-
ficking area’’ means a metropolitan area designated 
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by the Federal Bureau of Investigation as a high in-
tensity child prostitution area. 
(3) LABOR
TRAFFICKING.—The term ‘‘labor 
trafficking’’ means conduct described in section 
103(9)(B) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act 
of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7102(9)(B)). 
(4) SCHOOL STAFF.—The term ‘‘school staff’’ 
means teachers, nurses, security personnel, school 
leaders and administrators, and other staff at ele-
mentary schools and secondary schools. 
(5) SEX TRAFFICKING.—The term ‘‘sex traf-
ficking’’ means the conduct described in section 
103(9)(A) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act 
of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7102(9)(A)). 
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