Human Trafficking Prevention, Intervention, and Recovery Act of 2014

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Human Trafficking Prevention, Intervention, and Recovery Act of 2014 - Requires the Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking to conduct a review that: (1) surveys federal and state activities to deter individuals from committing trafficking offenses and to prevent children from becoming trafficking victims; (2) surveys academic literature on deterring individuals from committing trafficking offenses, preventing children from becoming trafficking victims, and the commercial sexual exploitation of children; and (3) identifies best practices and strategies to deter such actions.

Requires the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to report to Congress regarding: (1) federal and state law enforcement efforts to combat human trafficking in the United States, and (2) information on each relevant federal grant program.

Amends the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 to authorize grants for programs that provide housing assistance to victims of trafficking.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5135 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5135

To direct the Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking 
  to identify strategies to prevent children from becoming victims of 
 trafficking and review trafficking prevention efforts, to protect and 
    assist in the recovery of victims of trafficking, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 17, 2014

   Mrs. Noem (for herself, Mr. Paulsen, Mr. Cramer, Mr. Daines, Mr. 
  Coffman, Mr. Rodney Davis of Illinois, Mrs. Black, Mr. Flores, Mr. 
 Fitzpatrick, Mrs. Walorski, Mrs. Wagner, Mr. Schock, Mr. Southerland, 
Ms. Bass, Mr. Jolly, Mr. Lance, Mr. Lankford, Mr. Mullin, Mr. Walberg, 
 Mr. LaMalfa, Mr. Crawford, Mr. McKinley, Mr. Pittenger, Mr. Cook, Ms. 
  Herrera Beutler, Mrs. Ellmers, Mrs. Carolyn B. Maloney of New York, 
   Mrs. Blackburn, Mr. Reed, and Mr. Weber of Texas) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 
and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
  of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
                               concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
To direct the Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking 
  to identify strategies to prevent children from becoming victims of 
 trafficking and review trafficking prevention efforts, to protect and 
    assist in the recovery of victims of trafficking, 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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Human Trafficking Prevention, 
Intervention, and Recovery Act of 2014''.

SEC. 2. INTERAGENCY TASK FORCE REPORT ON CHILD TRAFFICKING PRIMARY 
              PREVENTION.

    (a) Review.--The Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat 
Trafficking, established under section 105 of the Trafficking Victims 
Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7103), shall conduct a review that, 
with regard to trafficking in persons in the United States--
            (1) in consultation with nongovernmental organizations that 
        the Task Force determines appropriate, surveys and catalogues 
        the activities of the Federal Government and State governments 
        to deter individuals from committing trafficking offenses and 
        to prevent children from becoming victims of trafficking;
            (2) surveys academic literature on deterring individuals 
        from committing trafficking offenses, preventing children from 
        becoming victims of trafficking, the commercial sexual 
        exploitation of children, and other similar topics that the 
        Task Force determines appropriate;
            (3) identifies best practices and effective strategies to 
        deter individuals from committing trafficking offenses and to 
        prevent children from becoming victims of trafficking; and
            (4) identifies current gaps in research and data that would 
        be helpful in formulating effective strategies to deter 
        individuals from committing trafficking offenses and to prevent 
        children from becoming victims of trafficking.
    (b) Report.--Not later than one year after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat 
Trafficking shall provide to Congress, and make publicly available in 
electronic format, a report on the review conducted pursuant to 
subparagraph (a).

SEC. 3. GAO REPORT ON INTERVENTION.

    On the date that is one year after the date of the enactment of 
this Act, the Comptroller General of the United States shall submit to 
Congress a report, which shall include--
            (1) information on the efforts of Federal and select State 
        law enforcement agencies to combat human trafficking in the 
        United States; and
            (2) information on each Federal grant program, a purpose of 
        which is to combat human trafficking or assist victims of 
        trafficking, as specified in an authorizing statute or in a 
        guidance document issued by the agency carrying out the grant 
        program.

SEC. 4. PROVISION OF HOUSING PERMITTED TO PROTECT AND ASSIST IN THE 
              RECOVERY OF VICTIMS OF TRAFFICKING.

    Section 107(b)(2)(A) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 
2000 (22 U.S.C. 7105(b)(2)(A)) is amended by inserting before the 
period at the end the following: ``, including programs that provide 
housing to victims of trafficking''.

SEC. 5. VICTIM OF TRAFFICKING DEFINED.

    In this Act, the term and ``victim of trafficking'' has the meaning 
given such term in section 103 of the Trafficking Victims Protection 
Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7102).
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