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113TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5135 
To direct the Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking 
to identify strategies to prevent children from becoming victims of traf-
ficking and review trafficking prevention efforts, to protect and assist 
in the recovery of victims of trafficking, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 17, 2014 
Mrs. NOEM (for herself, Mr. PAULSEN, Mr. CRAMER, Mr. DAINES, Mr. COFF-
MAN, Mr. RODNEY DAVIS of Illinois, Mrs. BLACK, Mr. FLORES, Mr. 
FITZPATRICK, Mrs. WALORSKI, Mrs. WAGNER, Mr. SCHOCK, Mr. 
SOUTHERLAND, Ms. BASS, Mr. JOLLY, Mr. LANCE, Mr. LANKFORD, Mr. 
MULLIN, Mr. WALBERG, Mr. LAMALFA, Mr. CRAWFORD, Mr. MCKIN-
LEY, Mr. PITTENGER, Mr. COOK, Ms. HERRERA
BEUTLER, Mrs. 
ELLMERS, Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York, Mrs. BLACKBURN, 
Mr. REED, and Mr. WEBER of Texas) introduced the following bill; which 
was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the 
Committee on Foreign Affairs, for a period to be subsequently deter-
mined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions 
as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To direct the Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Com-
bat Trafficking to identify strategies to prevent children 
from becoming victims of trafficking and review traf-
ficking prevention efforts, to protect and assist in the 
recovery of victims of trafficking, 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 
Prevention, Intervention, and Recovery Act of 2014’’. 
SEC. 2. INTERAGENCY TASK FORCE REPORT ON CHILD 
TRAFFICKING PRIMARY PREVENTION. 
(a) REVIEW.—The Interagency Task Force to Mon-
itor and Combat Trafficking, established under section 
105 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 
U.S.C. 7103), shall conduct a review that, with regard to 
trafficking in persons in the United States— 
(1) in consultation with nongovernmental orga-
nizations that the Task Force determines appro-
priate, surveys and catalogues the activities of the 
Federal Government and State governments to deter 
individuals from committing trafficking offenses and 
to prevent children from becoming victims of traf-
ficking; 
(2) surveys academic literature on deterring in-
dividuals from committing trafficking offenses, pre-
venting children from becoming victims of traf-
ficking, the commercial sexual exploitation of chil-
dren, and other similar topics that the Task Force 
determines appropriate; 
(3) identifies best practices and effective strate-
gies to deter individuals from committing trafficking 
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offenses and to prevent children from becoming vic-
tims of trafficking; and 
(4) identifies current gaps in research and data 
that would be helpful in formulating effective strate-
gies to deter individuals from committing trafficking 
offenses and to prevent children from becoming vic-
tims of trafficking. 
(b) REPORT.—Not later than one year after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Interagency Task Force 
to Monitor and Combat Trafficking shall provide to Con-
gress, and make publicly available in electronic format, a 
report on the review conducted pursuant to subparagraph 
(a). 
SEC. 3. GAO REPORT ON INTERVENTION. 
On the date that is one year after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the 
United States shall submit to Congress a report, which 
shall include— 
(1) information on the efforts of Federal and 
select State law enforcement agencies to combat 
human trafficking in the United States; and 
(2) information on each Federal grant program, 
a purpose of which is to combat human trafficking 
or assist victims of trafficking, as specified in an au-
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thorizing statute or in a guidance document issued 
by the agency carrying out the grant program. 
SEC. 4. PROVISION OF HOUSING PERMITTED TO PROTECT 
AND ASSIST IN THE RECOVERY OF VICTIMS 
OF TRAFFICKING. 
Section 107(b)(2)(A) of the Trafficking Victims Pro-
tection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7105(b)(2)(A)) is amended 
by inserting before the period at the end the following: 
‘‘, including programs that provide housing to victims of 
trafficking’’. 
SEC. 5. VICTIM OF TRAFFICKING DEFINED. 
In this Act, the term and ‘‘victim of trafficking’’ has 
the meaning given such term in section 103 of the Traf-
ficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7102). 
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