Sec. 5. Counter-trafficking in persons efforts in development cooperation and 
assistance policy. 
Sec. 6. Clarification of nonhumanitarian, nontrade-related foreign assistance. 
Sec. 7. Trafficking for the purposes of organ harvesting. 
Sec. 8. Elimination of duplicative reporting. 
Sec. 9. Printed version of the annual tip report. 
Sec. 10. Director of Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking reporting to 
Secretary. 
Sec. 11. Extension of authorizations under the Victims of Trafficking and Vio-
lence Protection Act of 2000. 
Sec. 12. Effective dates. 
SEC. 3. MODIFICATIONS TO PROGRAM TO END MODERN 
SLAVERY GRANTS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 1298 of the National De-
fense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 (22 U.S.C. 
7114 note) is amended as follows: 
(1) In subsection (g)(2), by striking ‘‘2020’’ 
and inserting ‘‘2029’’. 
(2) In subsection (h)(1), by striking ‘‘Not later 
than September 30, 2018, and September 30, 2020’’ 
and inserting ‘‘Not later than September 30, 2025, 
and September 30, 2029’’. 
(b) AWARD OF FUNDS.—All grants awarded under 
the authority provided by section 1298 of the National De-
fense Authorization Act of 2017, as amended by sub-
section (a), shall be— 
(1) awarded on a competitive basis; and 
(2) subject to the regular congressional notifica-
tion procedures applicable with respect to grants 
made available under section 1298(b) of the Na-
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tional Defense Authorization Act of 2017 (22 U.S.C. 
7114(b)). 
SEC. 4. AMENDMENTS TO TIER STANDARDS. 
(a) MODIFICATIONS TO TIER 2 WATCH LIST.—Sub-
section (b)(2) of section 110 of the Trafficking Victims 
Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7107) is amended— 
(1) in the heading, by striking ‘‘SPECIAL’’ and 
inserting ‘‘TIER 2’’; and 
(2) by amending subparagraph (A) to read as 
follows: 
‘‘(A) SUBMISSION
OF
LIST.—Not later 
than the date on which the determinations de-
scribed in subsections (c) and (d) are submitted 
to the appropriate congressional committees in 
accordance with such subsections, the Secretary 
of State shall submit to the appropriate con-
gressional committees a list of countries that 
the Secretary determines require special scru-
tiny during the following year. The list shall be 
composed of countries that have been listed 
pursuant to paragraph (1)(B) pursuant to the 
current annual report because— 
‘‘(i) the estimated number of victims 
of severe forms of trafficking is very sig-
nificant or is significantly increasing and 
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the country is not taking proportional con-
crete actions; or 
‘‘(ii) there is a failure to provide evi-
dence of increasing efforts to combat se-
vere forms of trafficking in persons from 
the previous year, including increased in-
vestigations, prosecutions and convictions 
of trafficking crimes, increased assistance 
to victims, and decreasing evidence of com-
plicity in severe forms of trafficking by 
government officials.’’. 
(b) MODIFICATION TO SPECIAL RULE FOR DOWN-
GRADED
AND
REINSTATED
COUNTRIES.—Subsection 
(b)(2)(F) of such section 110 (22 U.S.C. 7107) is amend-
ed— 
(1) in the matter preceding clause (i), by strik-
ing ‘‘the special watch list’’ and all that follows 
through ‘‘the country—’’ and inserting ‘‘the Tier 2 
watch list described in subparagraph (A) for more 
than 2 years immediately after the country consecu-
tively—’’; 
(2) in clause (i), in the matter preceding sub-
clause (I), by striking ‘‘the special watch list de-
scribed in subparagraph (A)(iii)’’ and inserting ‘‘the 
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Tier 2 watch list described in subparagraph (A)’’; 
and 
(3) in clause (ii), by inserting ‘‘in the year fol-
lowing such waiver under subparagraph (D)(ii)’’ be-
fore the period at the end. 
(c) CONFORMING
AMENDMENTS
TO
THE
TRAF-
FICKING VICTIMS PROTECTION ACT
OF 2000.—Sub-
section (b) of such section 110 (22 U.S.C. 7107) is 
amended as follows: 
(1) In paragraph (2), as amended by subsection 
(a)— 
(A) in subparagraph (B), by striking ‘‘spe-
cial watch list’’ and inserting ‘‘Tier 2 watch 
list’’; 
(B) in subparagraph (C), by striking ‘‘spe-
cial watch list’’ and inserting ‘‘Tier 2 watch 
list’’; and 
(C) in subparagraph (D)— 
(i) in the heading, by striking ‘‘SPE-
CIAL WATCH LIST’’ and inserting ‘‘TIER 2 
WATCH LIST’’; and 
(ii) in clause (i), by striking ‘‘special 
watch list’’ and inserting ‘‘Tier 2 watch 
list’’. 
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(2) In paragraph (3)(B), in the matter pre-
ceding clause (i), by striking ‘‘clauses (i), (ii), and 
(iii) of’’. 
(3) In paragraph (4)— 
(A) in subparagraph (A), in the matter 
preceding clause (i), by striking ‘‘each country 
described in paragraph (2)(A)(ii)’’ and inserting 
‘‘each country described in paragraph (2)(A)’’; 
and 
(B) in subparagraph (D)(ii), by striking 
‘‘the Special Watch List under paragraph (2)’’ 
and inserting ‘‘the Tier 2 watch list under para-
graph (2)’’. 
(d) CONFORMING AMENDMENT TO THE FREDERICK 
DOUGLASS
TRAFFICKING
VICTIMS
PREVENTION
AND 
PROTECTION REAUTHORIZATION ACT OF 2018.—Section 
204(b)(1) of the Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims 
Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act of 2018 
(Public Law 115–425) is amended by striking ‘‘special 
watch list described in paragraph (2)(A)(iii)’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘Tier 2 watch list described in paragraph (2)(A)’’. 
(e) CONFORMING AMENDMENT TO THE BIPARTISAN 
CONGRESSIONAL
TRADE
PRIORITIES
AND
ACCOUNT-
ABILITY ACT OF 2015.—Section 106(b)(6)(E)(iii) of the 
Bipartisan Congressional Trade Priorities and Account-
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ability Act of 2015 (Public Law 114–26; 19 U.S.C. 
4205(b)(6)(E)(iii)) is amended by striking ‘‘under sec-
tion’’ and all that follows and inserting ‘‘under section 
110(b)(2)(A) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 
2000 (22 U.S.C. 7107(b)(2)(A)).’’. 
SEC. 5. COUNTER-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS EFFORTS IN 
DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION AND ASSIST-
ANCE POLICY. 
The Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2151 
et seq.) is amended— 
(1) in section 102(b)(4) (22 U.S.C. 2151– 
1(b)(4))— 
(A) in subparagraph (F), by striking 
‘‘and’’ at the end; 
(B) in subparagraph (G), by striking the 
period at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(H) effective counter-trafficking in per-
sons policies and programs.’’; and 
(2) 
in 
section 
492(d)(1) 
(22 
U.S.C. 
2292a(d)(1))— 
(A) by striking the period at the end and 
inserting ‘‘; and’’; 
(B) by striking ‘‘that the funds’’ and in-
serting the following: ‘‘that— 
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