Trafficking in Persons Report Improvement Act of 2011 - Amends the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 to revise the annual trafficking in persons report, including by requiring that the report: (1) describes U.S. and foreign government anti-trafficking efforts according to the certain standards and criteria set forth in such Act, (2) describes the nature and scope of trafficking in persons in each country, and (3) analyzes the trend lines for individual governmental efforts.
[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1362 Introduced in Senate (IS)]
112th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 1362
To simplify the Trafficking in Persons Report by reducing the number of
country categories and ranking countries within each category according
to their relative adherence to the minimum standards set forth in
section 108 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22
U.S.C. 7106).
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
July 13, 2011
Mr. Webb introduced the following bill; which was read twice and
referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations
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A BILL
To simplify the Trafficking in Persons Report by reducing the number of
country categories and ranking countries within each category according
to their relative adherence to the minimum standards set forth in
section 108 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22
U.S.C. 7106).
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 ``Trafficking in Persons Report
Improvement Act of 2011''.
SEC. 2. TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT.
Section 110 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22
U.S.C. 7107) is amended--
(1) by striking subsection (b) and inserting the following:
``(b) Annual Report.--Not later than June 1 of each year, the
Secretary of State shall submit a report to the appropriate
congressional committees that describes the anti-trafficking efforts of
the United States and foreign governments according to the minimum
standards and criteria set forth in section 108, the nature and scope
of trafficking in persons in each country, and analyzes the trend lines
for individual governmental efforts. The report shall include--
``(1) a list of countries whose governments are in full
compliance with the applicable minimum standards set forth in
section 108, ranked on a single scale according to their
relative adherence to such standards;
``(2) a list of countries whose governments are not in full
compliance with such standards, ranked on a single scale
according to their relative adherence to such standards;
``(3) a section entitled `Exemplary Governments and
Practices in the Eradication of Trafficking in Persons' that
highlights--
``(A) effective practices and use of innovation and
technology in prevention, protection, prosecution, and
partnerships, including by foreign governments, the
private sector, and domestic civil society actors; and
``(B) governments that have shown exemplary overall
efforts to combat trafficking in persons;
``(4) information on the measures taken by the United
Nations, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in
Europe, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and, as
appropriate, other multilateral organizations in which the
United States participates, to prevent the involvement of the
organization's employees, contractor personnel, and
peacekeeping forces in trafficking in persons or the
exploitation of victims of trafficking;
``(5) reporting and analysis on the emergence or shifting
of global patterns in human trafficking, including data on the
number of victims trafficked to, through, or from major source
and destination countries, disaggregated by nationality,
gender, and age, to the extent possible; and
``(6) emerging issues in human trafficking.''; and
(2) in subsection (c)--
(A) by striking ``Not less'' and inserting the
following:
``(1) In general.--Not fewer'';
(B) by striking ``, on or after January 1, 2003, of
an annual report under subsection (b)(1) of this
section, or an interim report under subsection (b)(2)
of this section,'' and inserting ``of an annual report
under subsection (b),'';
(C) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``, as
described in subsection (b)(1)(C) of this section'';
and
(D) by adding at the end the following:
``(2) Significant efforts.--In determining under paragraph
(1)(B) whether the government of a country is making
significant efforts to bring itself into compliance with the
minimum standards set forth in section 108, the Secretary of
State shall consider--
``(A) the extent to which the country is a country
of origin, transit, or destination for severe forms of
trafficking;
``(B) the extent of noncompliance with the minimum
standards by the government and the extent to which
officials or employees of the government have
participated in, facilitated, condoned, or are
otherwise complicit in severe forms of trafficking; and
``(C) what measures are reasonable to bring the
government into compliance with the minimum standards
in light of the resources and capabilities of the
government.''.
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Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
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