Title: Secure our Skies Act of 2017
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
Secure our Skies Act of 2017
This bill requires each air carrier providing passenger air transportation to provide flight attendants, pilots, and dispatchers who are employees or contractors of the carrier with training to combat human trafficking in the course of carrying out their duties. Such training shall cover: (1) common indicators of human trafficking, and (2) best practices for reporting suspected trafficking to law enforcement officers.
To assist in such training, the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Transportation shall provide information, including the Blue Campaign training module, for use by air carriers.
The Federal Aviation Administration shall report recommendations for improving the identification and reporting of human trafficking by air carrier personnel while protecting the civil liberties of passengers.
The bill grants immunity to an air carrier for reporting any suspicious transaction relevant to a possible violation of law or regulation relating to human trafficking.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2602 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2602

To amend title 49, United States Code, to include training for certain 
 employees of air carriers to combat human trafficking, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 23, 2017

  Ms. Titus introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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 concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 49, United States Code, to include training for certain 
 employees of air carriers to combat human trafficking, and for other 
                               purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Secure our Skies Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. TRAINING TO COMBAT HUMAN TRAFFICKING FOR CERTAIN EMPLOYEES OF 
              AIR CARRIERS.

    (a) In General.--Subchapter I of chapter 417 of title 49, United 
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:
``Sec. 41725. Training to combat human trafficking
    ``(a) In General.--Each air carrier providing passenger air 
transportation shall provide flight attendants, pilots, and dispatchers 
who are employees or contractors of the air carrier with training to 
combat human trafficking in the course of carrying out their duties as 
employees or contractors of the air carrier.
    ``(b) Elements of Training.--The training an air carrier is 
required to provide under subsection (a) to flight attendants, pilots, 
and dispatchers shall include training with respect to--
            ``(1) common indicators of human trafficking; and
            ``(2) best practices for reporting suspected trafficking to 
        law enforcement officers.
    ``(c) Training Module.--To assist in training flight attendants, 
pilots, and dispatchers to identify and report human trafficking, the 
Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Transportation 
shall provide information to air carriers, including the Blue Campaign 
training module, and permit air carriers to use such information, in 
whole or in part, in complying with subsection (a).
    ``(d) Human Trafficking Defined.--In this section, the term `human 
trafficking' means one or more severe forms of trafficking in persons 
(as defined in section 103 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 
2000 (22 U.S.C. 7102)).''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The analysis for chapter 417 of title 49, 
United States Code, is amended by inserting after the item relating to 
section 41724 the following:

``41725. Training to combat human trafficking.''.
    (c) Report Required.--Not later than 1 year after the date of 
enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the Federal Aviation 
Administration shall submit to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and 
Transportation of the Senate and the Committee on Transportation and 
Infrastructure of the House of Representatives a report that includes--
            (1) the status of air carrier compliance with section 
        41725(a) and the dissemination and use of information described 
        in subsection (c) of that section; and
            (2) recommendations for improving the identification and 
        reporting of human trafficking by air carrier personnel while 
        protecting the civil liberties of passengers.

SEC. 3. IMMUNITY FOR REPORTING HUMAN TRAFFICKING.

    Section 44941(a) of title 49, United States Code, is amended by 
striking ``or terrorism, as defined by section 3077 of title 18, United 
States Code,'' and inserting ``human trafficking (as defined by section 
41725), or terrorism (as defined by section 3077 of title 18, United 
States Code)''.
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