Voices of Human Trafficking Act of 2014

Voices of Human Trafficking Act of 2014 - Establishes the United States Advisory Council on Human Trafficking, which shall provide advice and recommendations to the Senior Policy Operating Group and the President's Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons.

Directs the Council to: (1) meet at least annually or at the request of the Group to review federal, state, and local government policy and programs intended to combat human trafficking, (2) formulate assessments and recommendations to ensure that U.S. policy and programming efforts conform to best practices in the field of human trafficking prevention, (3) meet with the Group at least annually to formally present the Council's findings and recommendations, and (4) submit annual reports to the Task Force.

Sunsets this Act on September 30, 2020.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5607 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5607

To establish the United States Advisory Council on Human Trafficking to 
         review Federal Government policy on human trafficking.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 18, 2014

Mr. Honda (for himself, Mr. Poe of Texas, Mr. Rodney Davis of Illinois, 
  Ms. Bass, Mr. Grijalva, and Ms. McCollum) introduced the following 
 bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in 
    addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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 establish the United States Advisory Council on Human Trafficking to 
         review Federal Government policy on human 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 ``Voices of Human Trafficking Act of 
2014''.

SEC. 2. UNITED STATES ADVISORY COUNCIL ON HUMAN TRAFFICKING.

    (a) Establishment.--There is established the United States Advisory 
Council on Human Trafficking (referred to in this section as the 
``Council''), which shall provide advice and recommendations to the 
Senior Policy Operating Group (referred to in this section as the 
``Group'') and the President's Task Force to Monitor and Combat 
Trafficking in Persons.
    (b) Membership.--
            (1) Composition.--The Council shall be composed of not 
        fewer than 8 individuals who are--
                    (A) survivors of human trafficking; or
                    (B) nongovernmental experts or professionals in the 
                human trafficking field.
            (2) Equal representation.--To the extent practicable, the 
        Council be comprised of an equal number of survivors and 
        nongovernmental experts.
            (3) Appointment.--Not later than 180 days after the date of 
        the enactment of this Act, the President shall appoint the 
        members of the Council.
            (4) Term; reappointment.--Council members shall serve for 
        terms of 2 years and may be reappointed by the President to 
        serve additional 2-year terms.
    (c) Functions.--The Council shall--
            (1) be a nongovernmental advisory body to the Group;
            (2) meet, at its own discretion, not less frequently than 
        annually or at the request of the Group to review Federal, 
        State, and local government policy and programs intended to 
        combat human trafficking, including programs related to the 
        provision of services for victims;
            (3) formulate assessments and recommendations to ensure 
        that United States policy and programming efforts conform, to 
        the extent practicable, to the best practices in the field of 
        human trafficking prevention; and
            (4) meet with the Group not less frequently than annually 
        to formally present the Council's findings and recommendations.
    (d) Reports.--Every year beginning after the date of the enactment 
of this Act, the Council shall submit a report to the chair of the 
President's Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking 
that contains the findings derived from the reviews conducted pursuant 
to subsection (c)(2).
    (e) Employee Status.--Members of the Council--
            (1) shall not be considered employees of the United States 
        Government for any purpose; and
            (2) shall not receive compensation other than reimbursement 
        of travel expenses and per diem allowance in accordance with 
        section 5703 of title 5, United States Code.
    (f) Nonapplicability of FACA.--The Council shall not be subject to 
the requirements under the Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. 
App.).

SEC. 3. SUNSET.

    This section shall cease to be effective on September 30, 2020.
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