Title: A bill to require the Attorney General to designate Human Trafficking Coordinators for Federal judicial districts, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
This bill amends the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act of 2015 to direct the Department of Justice (DOJ) to designate:

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1236 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1236

    To require the Attorney General to designate Human Trafficking 
  Coordinators for Federal judicial districts, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 25, 2017

 Mr. Brown (for himself and Mr. Casey) introduced the following bill; 
  which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
    To require the Attorney General to designate Human Trafficking 
  Coordinators for Federal judicial districts, 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. HUMAN TRAFFICKING COORDINATORS.

    Section 606 of the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act of 2015 
(42 U.S.C. 14044h) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (b)(1)--
                    (A) by striking subparagraph (B); and
                    (B) by redesignating subparagraphs (C) and (D) as 
                subparagraphs (B) and (C), respectively; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(c) Human Trafficking Justice Coordinators.--The Attorney General 
shall designate in each Federal judicial district not less than 1 
Assistant United States Attorney to serve as the Human Trafficking 
Coordinator for the district, who, in addition to any other 
responsibilities, shall be responsible for--
            ``(1) implementing the National Strategy with respect to 
        all forms of human trafficking, including labor trafficking and 
        sex trafficking;
            ``(2) prosecuting or assisting in the prosecution of human 
        trafficking cases;
            ``(3) conducting public outreach and awareness activities 
        relating to human trafficking;
            ``(4) ensuring the collection of data related to human 
        trafficking required by law to be collected;
            ``(5) coordinating with other Federal agencies, State, 
        Tribal, and local law enforcement agencies, and victim service 
        providers to build partnerships on activities relating to human 
        trafficking; and
            ``(6) take appropriate steps and, when necessary, legal 
        action to collect restitution for victims as required to be 
        ordered under section 1593 of title 18, United States Code, or 
        under any other restitution order issued by a Federal court to 
        be paid to a victim in a human trafficking case.
    ``(d) Department of Justice Coordinator.--Not later than 60 days 
after the date of enactment of this subsection, the Attorney General 
shall designate a Deputy Assistant Attorney General who is a career 
appointee (as that term is defined in section 3132(a) of title 5, 
United States Code) as the National Human Trafficking Coordinator 
within the Department of Justice, who, in addition to any other 
responsibilities, shall be responsible for--
            ``(1) coordinating, promoting, and supporting the work of 
        the Department of Justice relating to human trafficking, 
        including investigation, prosecution, training, outreach, 
        victim support, grant-making, and policy activities;
            ``(2) reviewing data collected by Human Trafficking Justice 
        Coordinators in the Federal judicial districts and, when 
        necessary, communicating with the Coordinators to discuss such 
        data;
            ``(3) making recommendations to the Deputy Attorney General 
        on where resources should be allocated to combat human 
        trafficking;
            ``(4) in consultation with survivors of human trafficking, 
        or anti-human trafficking organizations, producing, and 
        disseminating, including making publicly available, when 
        possible, replication guides and training materials for law 
        enforcement officers, prosecutors, judges, emergency 
        responders, individuals working in crime victim services, 
        schools and school systems, adult and child protective 
        services, social services, and public safety, medical 
        personnel, mental health personnel, financial services 
        personnel, and any other individuals whose work may bring them 
        in contact with human trafficking regarding how to--
                    ``(A) identify signs of human trafficking;
                    ``(B) conduct investigations in human trafficking 
                cases;
                    ``(C) address evidentiary issues and other legal 
                issues in human trafficking cases; and
                    ``(D) appropriately assess, respond to, and 
                interact with victims and witnesses in human 
                trafficking cases, including in administrative, civil, 
                and criminal judicial proceedings; and
            ``(5) carrying out such other duties as the Attorney 
        General determines necessary in connection with enhancing the 
        understanding, prevention, detection, investigation, and 
        prosecution of, and response to, human trafficking.''.
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