A bill to rename the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking of the Department of State the Bureau to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons and to provide for an Assistant Secretary to head such Bureau, and for other purposes.

Bill: 114-s-1876
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT]
Introduced: 2015-07-28
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Department of State

Executive agency funding and structure

Federal officials

Human trafficking
Latest action: action_date: 2015-07-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-07-28
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p>Amends the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 to: (1) redesignate the Department of State's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking as the Bureau to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, and (2) require an Assistant Secretary to head the Bureau.</p>

tv_txt: II 114th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 1876 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES July 28, 2015 Mr. Blumenthal (for himself, Mr. Portman , Mr. Markey , Ms. Stabenow , Mrs. Gillibrand , Ms. Baldwin , Ms. Warren , Mr. Reed , Mr. Bennet , Mr. Schumer , Mr. Coons , Mr. Whitehouse , Mr. Boozman , Ms. Klobuchar , and Mr. Franken ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations A BILL To rename the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking of the Department of State the Bureau to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons and to provide for an Assistant Secretary to head such Bureau, and for other purposes.

1. Redesignation of office (a) In general Section 105(e) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 ( 22 U.S.C. 7103(e) ) is amended— (1) in the subsection heading, by striking Office To Monitor and Combat Trafficking and inserting Bureau To Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons ; (2) in paragraph (1)— (A) in the first sentence, by striking Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking and inserting Bureau to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons ; (B) in the second sentence, by striking Office and inserting Bureau ; and (C) in the sixth sentence, by striking Office and inserting Bureau ; and (3) in paragraph (2)(A), by striking Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking and inserting Bureau to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons . (b) Conforming amendments (1) Section 112A(b)(3) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 ( 22 U.S.C. 7109a(b)(3) ) is amended by striking Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking and inserting Bureau to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons . (2) Section 113(a) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 ( 22 U.S.C. 7110(a) ) is amended by striking Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking and inserting Bureau to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons . (3) Section 105 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 ( 22 U.S.C. 7112 ) is amended— (A) by striking Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking both places it appears and inserting Bureau to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons ; and (B) in subsection (a)(2), by striking focus of the Office and inserting focus of the Bureau . (4) Section 708(a) of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 ( 22 U.S.C. 4028(a) ) is amended by striking Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking and inserting Bureau to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons . 2. Assistant Secretary of the Bureau to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (a) In general Section 105(e) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 ( 22 U.S.C. 7103(e) ), as amended by section 1(a), is further amended— (1) in paragraph (1)— (A) by striking Director each place it appears and inserting Assistant Secretary ; and (B) by striking , with the rank of Ambassador-at-Large ; and (2) in paragraph (2), by striking Director both places it appears and inserting Assistant Secretary . (b) Conforming amendments (1) Section 112A(b)(3) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 ( 22 U.S.C. 7109a(b)(3) ), as amended by section 1(b)(1), is further amended by striking Director and inserting Assistant Secretary . (2) Section 105(a)(2) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 ( 22 U.S.C. 7112(a)(2) ), as amended by section 1(b)(3), is further amended by striking Director and inserting Assistant Secretary . (3) Section 708(a) of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 ( 22 U.S.C. 4028(a) ), as amended by section 1(b)(4), is further amended by striking Director and inserting Assistant Secretary . (c) Increase in authorized Assistant Secretary positions (1) Section 1(c)(1) of the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 ( 22 U.S.C. 2651a(c)(1) ) is amended by striking not more than 24 Assistant Secretaries and inserting not more than 25 Assistant Secretaries . (2) Section 5315 of title 5, United States Code, is amended by striking Assistant Secretaries of State (24) and inserting Assistant Secretaries of State (25) . 3. References (a) Office To Monitor and Combat Trafficking Any reference to the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in any law, regulation, map, document, record, or other paper of the United States shall be deemed to be a reference to the Bureau to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons. (b) Assistant Secretary of the Bureau To Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons Any reference to the Director of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in any law, regulation, map, document, record, or other paper of the United States shall be deemed to be a reference to the Assistant Secretary of the Bureau to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons.