(9) describe the engagement of the relevant 
Federal departments and agencies with stakeholders, 
including the engagement of importers, forced labor 
experts, and nongovernmental organizations; and 
(10) based on the information required by para-
graphs (1) through (9), identify any regulatory ob-
stacles or challenges to enforcement of such provi-
sions and provide recommendations for actions that 
could be taken by the relevant Federal departments 
and agencies to overcome these obstacles. 
SEC. 143. MODIFICATION TO LIST OF CHILD-MADE AND 
SLAVERY-MADE GOODS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 105(b)(2)(C) of the Traf-
ficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2005 
(22 U.S.C. 7112(b)(2)(C)) is amended by inserting ‘‘, in-
cluding, to the extent practicable, goods that are produced 
with inputs that are produced with forced labor or child 
labor’’ after ‘‘international standards’’. 
(b) INCLUSION IN AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIA-
TIONS.—Amounts appropriated pursuant to the authoriza-
tion of appropriations under section 113(f) of the Traf-
ficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 
7110(f)), as amended by section 301(a) of this Act, are 
authorized to be made available to carry out the purposes 
described in section 105(b)(2) of the Trafficking Victims 
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Protection Reauthorization Act of 2005 (22 U.S.C. 
7112(b)(2)), as amended by subsection (a). 
TITLE II—FIGHTING HUMAN 
TRAFFICKING ABROAD 
Subtitle A—Monitoring Efforts To 
Combat Trafficking 
SEC. 211. INCLUDING THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY 
AND 
THE 
UNITED 
STATES 
TRADE 
REP-
RESENTATIVE AS A MEMBER OF THE INTER-
AGENCY TASK FORCE TO MONITOR AND COM-
BAT TRAFFICKING. 
Section 105(b) of the Trafficking Victims Protection 
Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7103(b)) is amended by inserting 
‘‘the Secretary of the Treasury, the United States Trade 
Representative,’’ after ‘‘the Secretary of Education,’’. 
SEC. 212. ENCOURAGING COUNTRIES TO MAINTAIN AND 
SHARE DATA ON HUMAN TRAFFICKING EF-
FORTS. 
Paragraphs (1) and (7) of section 108(b) of the Traf-
ficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7106 
(b)(1) and (b)(7)) are each amended by striking the final 
sentence of such paragraphs. 
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SEC. 213. APPROPRIATE LISTING OF GOVERNMENTS IN-
VOLVED IN HUMAN TRAFFICKING. 
Subsection (b) of section 110 of the Trafficking Vic-
tims Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7107(b)) is 
amended as follows: 
(1) In paragraph (1)(C)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘and whose governments 
do not’’ and inserting the following: ‘‘and whose 
governments— 
‘‘(i) do not’’; and 
(B) by adding at the end the following new 
clauses: 
‘‘(ii) tolerate trafficking in govern-
ment-funded programs; or 
‘‘(iii) have a government-supported 
practice of trafficking, including, for exam-
ple, by using forced labor in agriculture, 
forestry, mining, or construction, permit-
ting sexual slavery in government camps, 
compounds, or outposts, or employing child 
soldiers;’’. 
(2) In paragraph (2)— 
(A) in subparagraph (A)(iii)(I), by insert-
ing ‘‘and the country is not taking steps com-
mensurate with the size of the trafficking prob-
lem’’ before the semicolon at the end; 
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(B) in subparagraph (D)(ii), by striking ‘‘2 
years’’ and inserting ‘‘1 year’’; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following new 
subparagraph: 
‘‘(F) SPECIAL RULE FOR CERTAIN COUN-
TRIES
ON
SPECIAL
WATCH
LIST
THAT
ARE 
DOWNGRADED
AND
REINSTATED
ON
SPECIAL 
WATCH LIST.—Notwithstanding subparagraphs 
(D) and (E), a country that— 
‘‘(i) was included on the special watch 
list described in subparagraph (A) for— 
‘‘(I) two consecutive years after 
the date of the enactment of subpara-
graph (D); and 
‘‘(II) any additional years after 
such date of enactment by reason of 
the President exercising the waiver 
authority under clause (ii) of subpara-
graph (D); and 
‘‘(ii) was subsequently included on the 
list of countries described in paragraph 
(1)(C), 
may not thereafter be included on the special 
watch list described in subparagraph (A) for 
more than 1 consecutive year.’’. 
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SEC. 214. REQUIREMENTS FOR STRATEGIES TO PREVENT 
TRAFFICKING. 
(a) REPORT ON NEW PRACTICES TO COMBAT TRAF-
FICKING.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Not later than 120 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, and an-
nually thereafter for seven years, the Secretary of 
State, in consultation with the Administrator of the 
United States Agency for International Develop-
ment, shall submit to the Committee on Foreign Af-
fairs of the House of Representatives and the Com-
mittee on Foreign Relations of the Senate a re-
port— 
(A) describing any practices adopted by 
the Department or the Agency to better combat 
trafficking in persons, in accordance with the 
report submitted under section 101(b)(4) of the 
Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization 
Act of 2005, in order to reduce the risk of traf-
ficking in post-conflict or post-disaster areas; or 
(B) if no such practices have been adopted, 
including a strategy to reduce the risk of traf-
ficking in such areas. 
(2) PUBLIC AVAILABILITY.—Each report sub-
mitted under paragraph (1) shall be posted on a 
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publicly available Internet Web site of the Depart-
ment of State. 
(b) CHILD PROTECTION STRATEGIES
IN WATCH 
LIST COUNTRIES.—The Administrator of the United 
States Agency for International Development shall incor-
porate into the relevant country development cooperation 
strategy for each country on the special watch list de-
scribed in section 110(b)(2)(A) or the list described in sec-
tion 110(b)(1)(C) of the Trafficking Victims Protection 
Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7107 (b)(2)(A) and (b)(1)(C)), 
as amended by section 213 of this Act, strategies for the 
protection of children and the reduction of the risk of traf-
ficking. 
Subtitle B—Child Soldier 
Prevention Act of 2017 
SEC. 221. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) The recruitment or use of children in armed 
conflict is unacceptable for any government or gov-
ernment supported entity receiving United States as-
sistance. 
(2) The recruitment or use of children in armed 
conflict, including direct combat, support roles, and 
sexual slavery, occurred during 2015–2016 in Af-
ghanistan, South Sudan, Sudan, Burma, the Demo-
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cratic Republic of Congo, Iraq, Nigeria, Rwanda, So-
malia, Syria, and Yemen. 
(3) Entities of the Government of Afghanistan, 
particularly the Afghan Local Police and Afghan 
National Police, continue to recruit children to serve 
as combatants or as servants, including as sex 
slaves. 
(4) Police forces of the Government of Afghani-
stan participate in counter-terrorism operations, di-
rect and indirect combat, security operations, fight 
alongside regular armies, and are targeted for vio-
lence by the Taliban as well as by other opposition 
groups. 
(5) In February 2016, a 10-year-old boy was 
assassinated by the Taliban after he had been pub-
lically honored by Afghan local police forces for his 
assistance in combat operations against the Taliban. 
(6) Recruitment and use of children in armed 
conflict by government forces has continued in 2016 
in South Sudan with the return to hostilities. 
(7) At least 650 children have been recruited 
and used in armed conflict in South Sudan in 2016, 
and at least 16,000 have been recruited since that 
country’s civil war began in 2013. 
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SEC. 222. AMENDMENTS TO THE CHILD SOLDIERS PREVEN-
TION ACT OF 2008. 
(a) DEFINITIONS.—Section 402(2)(A) of the Child 
Soldiers Prevention Act of 2008 (22 U.S.C. 2370c(2)(A)) 
is amended by inserting ‘‘, police, or other security forces’’ 
after ‘‘governmental armed forces’’ each place it appears. 
(b) PROHIBITION.—Section 404 of the Child Soldiers 
Prevention Act of 2008 (22 U.S.C. 2370c–1) is amend-
ed— 
(1) in subsection (a)— 
(A) by inserting ‘‘, police, or other security 
forces’’ after ‘‘governmental armed forces’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘recruit and use child sol-
diers’’ and inserting ‘‘recruit or use child sol-
diers’’; 
(2) in subsection (b)(2), to read as follows: 
‘‘(2) NOTIFICATION.— 
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—Not later than 45 
days after the date of submission of each report 
required under section 110(b) of the Traf-
ficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, the Sec-
retary of State shall formally notify each gov-
ernment included in the list required under 
paragraph (1) that such government is so in-
cluded. 
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‘‘(B) CONGRESSIONAL NOTIFICATION.—As 
soon as practicable after making all of the noti-
fications required under subparagraph (A) with 
respect to a report, the Secretary of State shall 
notify the appropriate congressional committees 
that the requirements of subparagraph (A) have 
been met.’’; 
(3) in subsection (c)(1), by adding at the end 
before the period the following: ‘‘and certifies to the 
appropriate congressional committees that the gov-
ernment of such country is taking effective and con-
tinuing steps to address the problem of child sol-
diers’’; and 
(4) in subsection (e)(1), by striking ‘‘to a coun-
try’’ and all that follows through ‘‘subsection (a)’’ 
and inserting ‘‘under section 541 of the Foreign As-
sistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2347) through the 
Defense Institute for International Legal Studies or 
the Center for Civil-Military Relations at the Naval 
Post-Graduate School, and may provide nonlethal 
supplies (as defined in section 2557(d)(1)(B) of title 
10), to a country subject to the prohibition under 
subsection (a)’’. 
(c) REPORTS.—Section 405 of the Child Soldiers Pre-
vention Act of 2008 (22 U.S.C. 2370c–2) is amended— 
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(1) in subsection (c)— 
(A) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), 
by striking ‘‘, during any of the 5 years fol-
lowing the date of the enactment of this Act,’’; 
(B) 
by 
redesignating 
paragraphs 
(2) 
through (4) as paragraphs (3) through (5), re-
spectively; 
(C) by inserting after paragraph (1) the 
following: 
‘‘(2) a description and the amount of any as-
sistance withheld under this title pursuant to the ap-
plication to those countries of the prohibition in sec-
tion 404(a);’’; and 
(D) in paragraph (5) (as so redesignated), 
by inserting ‘‘and the amount’’ after ‘‘a descrip-
tion’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(d) INFORMATION TO BE INCLUDED IN ANNUAL 
TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT.—If a country is noti-
fied pursuant to section 404(b)(2), or a waiver is granted 
pursuant to section 404(c)(1), the Secretary of State shall 
include in each report required under section 110(b) of 
the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 
7107(b)) the information required to be included in the 
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annual report to Congress under paragraphs (1) through 
(5) of subsection (c) of this section.’’. 
TITLE III—AUTHORIZATION OF 
APPROPRIATIONS 
SEC. 301. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS UNDER 
THE 
TRAFFICKING 
VICTIMS 
PROTECTION 
ACT OF 2000. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 113 of the Trafficking 
Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7110), as 
amended by sections 114 and 143 of this Act, is further 
amended by striking ‘‘2017’’ each place it appears and 
inserting ‘‘2021’’. 
(b) HUMAN SMUGGLING
AND TRAFFICKING CEN-
TER.—Section 112A(b)(4) of the Trafficking Victims Pro-
tection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7109a(b)(4)) is amended 
by striking ‘‘2017’’ and inserting ‘‘2021’’. 
SEC. 302. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS UNDER 
THE TRAFFICKING VICTIMS PROTECTION RE-
AUTHORIZATION ACT OF 2005. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 201(c)(2) of the Traf-
ficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2005 
(42 U.S.C. 14044(c)(2)) is amended by striking ‘‘2017’’ 
and inserting ‘‘2021’’. 
(b) ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS FOR CERTAIN PERSONS 
SUBJECT TO TRAFFICKING.— 
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(1) IN
GENERAL.—Section 202 of the Traf-
ficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 
2005 is amended by striking ‘‘2017’’ and inserting 
‘‘2021’’. 
(2) REPEAL OF SUNSET.—Section 1241 of the 
Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 
2013 (Public Law 113–4; 127 Stat. 149) is amend-
ed— 
(A) by striking subsection (b); and 
(B) by striking ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Sec-
tion 202’’ and inserting ‘‘Section 202’’. 
(c) CHILD TRAFFICKING DETERRENCE PROGRAM.— 
Section 203 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Reau-
thorization Act of 2005 (42 U.S.C. 14044b) is amended 
by striking ‘‘2020’’ and inserting ‘‘2021’’. 
(d) ENHANCING STATE AND LOCAL EFFORTS.—Sec-
tion 204(e) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Reau-
thorization Act of 2005 (42 U.S.C. 14044c(e)) is amended 
by striking ‘‘2017’’ and inserting ‘‘2021’’. 
SEC. 303. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR EN-
HANCING EFFORTS TO COMBAT THE TRAF-
FICKING OF CHILDREN. 
Section 235(c)(6)(F) of the William Wilberforce 
Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 
2008 (8 U.S.C. 1232(c)(6)(F)) is amended— 
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