Reducing the Demand for Human Trafficking Act of 2021

Reducing the Demand for Human Trafficking Act of 2021

This bill modifies the requirements regarding trafficking victim services grants. Specifically, it creates a preference for applicants who use the grant funds to investigate and prosecute individuals who solicit or purchase commercial sex.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 332 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 332

To amend the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 to encourage a 
victim-centered approach to combating human trafficking, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 15, 2021

 Mr. Kinzinger (for himself and Ms. Kelly of Illinois) 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 encourage a 
victim-centered approach to combating human 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 ``Reducing the Demand for Human 
Trafficking Act of 2021''.

SEC. 2. IMPLEMENTING A VICTIM-CENTERED APPROACH TO COMBATING HUMAN 
              TRAFFICKING.

    Section 107(b)(2) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 
(22 U.S.C. 7105(b)(2)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(D) Preferences.--The Attorney General shall 
                provide affirmative preferences to applicants for grant 
                funding under this paragraph whose grant application 
                includes an attestation that grant funds awarded to a 
                State or local law enforcement agency will be used in 
                part to assist in strengthening efforts to reduce 
                demand for human trafficking through the investigation 
                and prosecution of persons who solicit or purchase 
                commercial sex.''.
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