Under the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, human trafficking is defined as the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person to perform labor or a commercial sex act through force, fraud, or coercion. Any commercial sex act performed by a person under age 18 is considered human trafficking, regardless of whether force, fraud, or coercion is involved. (Learn more from the Bureau of Justice Statistics.)
Human Trafficking Legislation
- S 1354 End Sex Trafficking Act: to clarify the range of conduct punished as sex trafficking. (And HR 2805.)
- S 121 A bill to establish the US Advisory Council on Human Trafficking to review Federal Government policy on human trafficking.
- HR 1732 Strengthening the Child Welfare Response to Human Trafficking Act: To amend part E of title IV of the Social Security Act to better enable State child welfare agencies to prevent human trafficking of children and serve the needs of children who are victims of human trafficking.
- S 1118 Child Sex Trafficking Data and Response Act: To amend part E of title IV of the Social Security Act to better enable State child welfare agencies to prevent sex trafficking of children and serve the needs of children who are victims of sex trafficking. (And HR 2744.)
- HR 2624 Child Trafficking Victims Protection Act: To provide for enhanced protections for vulnerable unaccompanied alien children and female detainees.
- HR 2283 Human Trafficking Prioritization Act: To prioritize the fight against human trafficking within the Department of State according to congressional intent in the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 without increasing the size of the Federal Government.
- S 413 Human Trafficking Reporting Act: A bill to amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to include human trafficking as a part 1 violent crime for purposes of the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program.
- HR 906 Human Trafficking Reporting Act: To amend title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to provide for improvements under the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in the criminal justice system and to amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to include human trafficking as a part 1 violent crime for purposes of the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program.
