Title: Prevent Trafficking in Our Schools Act
Policy area: Education

Summary:
Prevent Trafficking in Our Schools Act
This bill directs the Department of Homeland Security, at the request of the Department of Education (ED), to develop educational materials that ED may use to provide teachers, school leaders, and other personnel of elementary and secondary schools (covered educational personnel) with training in human trafficking awareness and techniques for identifying victims of human trafficking in elementary and secondary schools.
The bill sets forth matters that the educational materials must address and requires that such materials emphasize that covered educational personnel who notice indicators of potential human trafficking should contact law enforcement and should not attempt to engage in counter-trafficking operations.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5407 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5407

  To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to develop educational 
          materials relating to human trafficking in schools.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 22, 2018

 Mr. Yoho (for himself, Mr. Poe of Texas, Mr. Posey, Mr. Fleischmann, 
Ms. Tenney, Mr. LaMalfa, Mr. King of Iowa, Mr. Flores, Mrs. Wagner, and 
  Mr. Dunn) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                Committee on Education and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
  To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to develop educational 
          materials relating to human trafficking in schools.

    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 ``Prevent Trafficking in Our Schools 
Act''.

SEC. 2. DEVELOPMENT OF MATERIALS FOR HUMAN TRAFFICKING AWARENESS 
              TRAINING.

    (a) In General.--At the request of the Secretary of Education, the 
Secretary of Homeland Security shall develop educational materials 
which may be used by the Secretary of Education to provide covered 
educational personnel with training in human trafficking awareness and 
techniques for identifying victims of human trafficking in elementary 
schools and secondary schools.
    (b) Educational Materials.--The educational materials developed 
under subsection (a) shall address the following:
            (1) Methods that covered educational personnel can use to 
        identify and respond to suspected victims and perpetrators of 
        human trafficking.
            (2) Variations in locations or environments that may affect 
        the ability of covered educational personnel to identify and 
        address victims of human trafficking.
            (3) Information on changing trends in human trafficking to 
        assist covered educational personnel in detecting and 
        investigating human trafficking in classrooms and the 
        environment in the school system.
            (4) Best practices for referring human trafficking cases to 
        the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice, 
        and State and local law enforcement agencies.
            (5) Resources that are available for trafficking victims 
        such as victim service providers, victim support services, and 
        the National Human Trafficking Hotline.
    (c) Additional Requirement.--The educational materials developed 
under subsection (a) shall emphasize that covered educational personnel 
who notice indicators of potential human trafficking--
            (1) should contact an appropriate law enforcement agency; 
        and
            (2) should not attempt to engage in counter-trafficking 
        operations.

SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.

    In this section:
            (1) Covered educational personnel.--The term ``covered 
        educational personnel'' means teachers, school leaders, and 
        other personnel of elementary schools and secondary schools.
            (2) ESEA terms.--The terms ``elementary school'', ``school 
        leader'', and ``secondary school'' have the meanings given the 
        terms in section 8101 of the Elementary and Secondary Education 
        Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801).
            (1) Human trafficking.--The term ``human trafficking'' 
        means an act or practice described in paragraph (9) or 
        paragraph (10) of section 103 of the Trafficking Victims 
        Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7102).
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