Title: Empowering Educators to Prevent Trafficking Act
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
Empowering Educators to Prevent Trafficking Act
This bill authorizes the Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to award grants to local educational agencies: (1) to train school staff to recognize and respond to signs of labor and sex trafficking, and (2) to provide classroom curricula to students on how to avoid becoming victims of labor and sex trafficking.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2268 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2268

 To authorize the Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and 
Delinquency Prevention of the Department of Justice to award grants to 
 local educational agencies to establish, expand, and support programs 
 to train school staff to recognize and respond to signs of labor and 
 sex trafficking and to provide classroom curricula to students on how 
        to avoid becoming victims of labor and sex trafficking.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 1, 2017

Mrs. Davis of California (for herself, Mrs. Wagner, Mr. Kinzinger, and 
    Ms. Jenkins of Kansas) introduced the following bill; which was 
        referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To authorize the Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and 
Delinquency Prevention of the Department of Justice to award grants to 
 local educational agencies to establish, expand, and support programs 
 to train school staff to recognize and respond to signs of labor and 
 sex trafficking and to provide classroom curricula to students on how 
        to avoid becoming victims of labor and sex trafficking.

    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 ``Empowering Educators to Prevent 
Trafficking Act''.

SEC. 2. GRANTS FOR TRAINING SCHOOL STAFF TO RECOGNIZE AND RESPOND TO 
              SIGNS OF LABOR AND SEX TRAFFICKING.

    (a) In General.--The Administrator of the Office of Juvenile 
Justice and Delinquency Prevention of the Department of Justice may 
award grants to local educational agencies to establish, expand, and 
support programs--
            (1) to train school staff to recognize and respond to signs 
        of labor trafficking and sex trafficking; and
            (2) to provide classroom curricula to students on how to 
        avoid becoming victims of labor trafficking and sex 
        trafficking.
    (b) Program Requirements.--A program funded through a grant under 
this section shall include--
            (1) training on--
                    (A) indicators that an individual is a victim or 
                potential victim of labor trafficking or sex 
                trafficking;
                    (B) options and procedures for referring such an 
                individual, as appropriate, to--
                            (i) information on such trafficking; and
                            (ii) legal, social, and health services for 
                        victims of such trafficking;
                    (C) reporting requirements and procedures in 
                accordance with applicable Federal and State law; and
                    (D) how to administer classroom curricula provided 
                pursuant to subsection (a)(2); and
            (2) a plan, developed and implemented in consultation with 
        local law enforcement authorities, to ensure the safety of 
        school staff reporting such trafficking.
    (c) Priority.--In awarding grants under this section, the 
Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency 
Prevention of the Department of Justice shall give priority to local 
educational agencies serving a high-intensity child sex trafficking 
area.
    (d) Definitions.--In this Act:
            (1) ESEA terms.--The terms ``elementary school''; ``local 
        educational agency''; ``other staff''; 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).
            (2) High-intensity child sex trafficking area.--The term 
        ``high-intensity child sex trafficking area'' means a 
        metropolitan area designated by the Federal Bureau of 
        Investigation as a high intensity child prostitution area.
            (3) Labor trafficking.--The term ``labor trafficking'' 
        means conduct described in section 103(9)(B) of the Trafficking 
        Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7102(9)(B)).
            (4) School staff.--The term ``school staff'' means 
        teachers, nurses, security personnel, school leaders and 
        administrators, and other staff at elementary schools and 
        secondary schools.
            (5) Sex trafficking.--The term ``sex trafficking'' means 
        the conduct described in section 103(9)(A) of the Trafficking 
        Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7102(9)(A)).
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