COMBAT Act

Collecting Official Measurements and Baselines to Assess Trafficking Act of 2019 or the COMBAT Act

This bill requires the Department of Homeland Security to undertake a study to determine the extent of human trafficking in the United States, including estimates of the number of victims.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4581 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4581

To amend the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 to provide for 
  a comprehensive domestic human trafficking estimate, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 27, 2019

Mr. Yoho (for himself and Mr. Van Drew) introduced the following bill; 
          which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 to provide for 
  a comprehensive domestic human trafficking estimate, 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 ``Collecting Official Measurements and 
Baselines to Assess Trafficking Act of 2019'' or the ``COMBAT Act''.

SEC. 2. COMPREHENSIVE STUDY ON HUMAN TRAFFICKING.

    Section 112A of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(d) Comprehensive Study on Human Trafficking.--
            ``(1) In general.--The Secretary of Homeland Security shall 
        conduct a comprehensive study to determine the extent of human 
        trafficking in the United States, consistent with the 
        conclusions of the consultation under paragraph (2).
            ``(2) Consultation.--In the year prior to commencing the 
        study the Secretary shall, in consultation with such Federal 
        agencies and State and local government entities as the 
        Secretary determines appropriate--
                    ``(A) determine the appropriate time period for the 
                study to consider;
                    ``(B) determine what information regarding 
                incidence of human trafficking is necessary to complete 
                the study;
                    ``(C) from among information under subparagraph 
                (B), determine what information is already reported to 
                any other Federal agency, and the availability of such 
                information;
                    ``(D) take such actions as may be appropriate to 
                arrange for other agencies having custody of such 
                information to make it available to the Secretary, and, 
                where such actions are not, to promptly report to 
                Congress thereon; and
                    ``(E) enter into agreements with State and local 
                governments providing for the reporting of such 
                information.
            ``(3) Report.--The Secretary shall report the results of 
        the comprehensive study under paragraph (1) to Congress, 
        including--
                    ``(A) the estimated number of victims disaggregated 
                by--
                            ``(i) whether the victim was trafficked 
                        within a State; and
                            ``(ii) whether the victim was trafficked in 
                        interstate commerce;
                    ``(B) what industries the practice of human 
                trafficking is most prevalent in;
                    ``(C) estimated number of victims disaggregated 
                by--
                            ``(i) whether the victim was sex 
                        trafficked; and
                            ``(ii) whether the victim was trafficked 
                        for labor; and
                    ``(D) any other information the Secretary deems 
                appropriate.''.
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