Enhancing Services for Runaway and Homeless Victims of Youth Trafficking Act of 2015

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)

Enhancing Services for Runaway and Homeless Victims of Youth Trafficking Act of 2015

(Sec. 2) Amends the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act with respect to grants to states, localities, and private entities to carry out research, evaluation, demonstration, and service projects regarding activities designed to increase knowledge concerning, and to improve services for, runaway youth and homeless youth.

Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to give priority to proposed projects relating to staff training in:

• the behavioral and emotional effects of severe forms of trafficking in persons and sex trafficking,
• responding to youth who are showing effects of severe forms of trafficking in persons and sex trafficking, and
• agency-wide strategies for working with runaway and homeless youth who are victims of trafficking.

Extends the Secretary's authority to make grants to nonprofit private agencies for the purpose of providing street-based services to runaway and homeless, and street youth, who have been subjected to, or are at risk of being subjected to, sexual abuse, prostitution, or sexual exploitation. Extends the scope of such grants also to street-based services to runaway and homeless, and street youth, who have been subjected to, or are at risk of being subjected to, severe forms of trafficking in persons and sex trafficking.

[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 468 Introduced in House (IH)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 468

   To amend the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act to increase knowledge 
 concerning, and improve services for, runaway and homeless youth who 
                      are victims of trafficking.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 22, 2015

Mr. Heck of Nevada (for himself, Mr. Kline, Mr. Scott of Virginia, and 
 Mr. Walberg) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                Committee on Education and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act to increase knowledge 
 concerning, and improve services for, runaway and homeless youth who 
                      are victims of 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 ``Enhancing Services for Runaway and 
Homeless Victims of Youth Trafficking Act of 2015''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS.

    The Runaway and Homeless Youth Act (42 U.S.C. 5701 et seq.) is 
amended--
            (1) in section 343(b)(5)--
                    (A) in subparagraph (A) by inserting ``, severe 
                forms of trafficking in persons (as defined in section 
                103(9) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 
                2000 (22 U.S.C. 7102(9))), and sex trafficking (as 
                defined in section 103(10) of such Act (22 U.S.C. 
                7102(10)))'' before the semicolon at the end;
                    (B) in subparagraph (B) by inserting ``, severe 
                forms of trafficking in persons (as defined in section 
                103(9) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 
                2000 (22 U.S.C. 7102(9))), and sex trafficking (as 
                defined in section 103(10) of such Act (22 U.S.C. 
                7102(10)))'' after ``assault''; and
                    (C) in subparagraph (C) by inserting ``, including 
                such youth who are victims of trafficking (as defined 
                in section 103(15) of the Trafficking Victims 
                Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7102(15)))'' before 
                the semicolon at the end; and
            (2) in section 351(a) by striking ``or sexual 
        exploitation'' and inserting ``sexual exploitation, severe 
        forms of trafficking in persons (as defined in section 103(9) 
        of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 
        7102(9))), or sex trafficking (as defined in section 103(10) of 
        such Act (22 U.S.C. 7102(10)))''.
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