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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 1185 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for the implementation |
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| 6 | 6 | | of curricula for training students, teachers, and school personnel to |
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| 7 | 7 | | understand, recognize, prevent, and respond to signs of human trafficking |
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| 8 | 8 | | and exploitation in children and youth, and for other purposes. |
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| 9 | 9 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 10 | 10 | | FEBRUARY11, 2025 |
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| 11 | 11 | | Mr. B |
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| 12 | 12 | | UCHANAN(for himself and Ms. WASSERMANSCHULTZ) introduced the |
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| 13 | 13 | | following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce |
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| 14 | 14 | | A BILL |
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| 15 | 15 | | To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for |
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| 16 | 16 | | the implementation of curricula for training students, |
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| 17 | 17 | | teachers, and school personnel to understand, recognize, |
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| 18 | 18 | | prevent, and respond to signs of human trafficking and |
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| 19 | 19 | | exploitation in children and youth, and for other pur- |
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| 20 | 20 | | poses. |
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| 21 | 21 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 22 | 22 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 23 | 23 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 24 | 24 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Human Trafficking 4 |
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| 25 | 25 | | and Exploitation Prevention Training Act’’. 5 |
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| 29 | 29 | | SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 1 |
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| 30 | 30 | | Congress finds the following: 2 |
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| 31 | 31 | | (1) According to the National Human Traf-3 |
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| 32 | 32 | | ficking Hotline, operated by the National Human 4 |
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| 33 | 33 | | Trafficking Resource Center, there is no single pro-5 |
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| 34 | 34 | | file for trafficking survivors—trafficking survivors 6 |
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| 35 | 35 | | include adults and minors from rural, suburban, and 7 |
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| 36 | 36 | | urban communities across the country. Survivors of 8 |
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| 37 | 37 | | human trafficking have diverse socioeconomic back-9 |
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| 38 | 38 | | grounds, varied levels of education, and may be doc-10 |
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| 39 | 39 | | umented or undocumented. According to the 2018 11 |
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| 40 | 40 | | Trafficking In Persons Report produced by the De-12 |
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| 41 | 41 | | partment of State, the Department of Justice, the 13 |
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| 42 | 42 | | National Human Trafficking Resource Center, and 14 |
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| 43 | 43 | | Youth.gov, vulnerable populations and risk factors 15 |
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| 44 | 44 | | for human trafficking include— 16 |
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| 45 | 45 | | (A) children in the child welfare and juve-17 |
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| 46 | 46 | | nile justice systems; 18 |
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| 47 | 47 | | (B) runaway youth; 19 |
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| 48 | 48 | | (C) homeless youth; 20 |
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| 49 | 49 | | (D) youth forced to leave home by parents 21 |
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| 50 | 50 | | or caregivers with no alternate care arranged; 22 |
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| 51 | 51 | | (E) unaccompanied children; 23 |
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| 52 | 52 | | (F) American Indians and Alaska Natives; 24 |
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| 56 | 56 | | (G) migrant laborers, including undocu-1 |
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| 57 | 57 | | mented workers and individuals with temporary 2 |
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| 58 | 58 | | visas; 3 |
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| 59 | 59 | | (H) recent migration or relocation; 4 |
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| 60 | 60 | | (I) persons with disabilities; 5 |
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| 61 | 61 | | (J) LGBTI individuals; 6 |
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| 62 | 62 | | (K) people of color; 7 |
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| 63 | 63 | | (L) those with limited-English proficiency; 8 |
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| 64 | 64 | | (M) low literacy; 9 |
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| 65 | 65 | | (N) substance abuse; 10 |
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| 66 | 66 | | (O) mental health issues; 11 |
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| 67 | 67 | | (P) past trauma or violence; 12 |
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| 68 | 68 | | (Q) stigma or discrimination; 13 |
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| 69 | 69 | | (R) family conflict, disruption, or dysfunc-14 |
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| 70 | 70 | | tion; 15 |
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| 71 | 71 | | (S) community-level risk factors such as 16 |
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| 72 | 72 | | peer pressure, social norms, social isolation, 17 |
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| 73 | 73 | | gang involvement, and living in an under- 18 |
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| 74 | 74 | | resourced school, neighborhood, or community; 19 |
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| 75 | 75 | | and 20 |
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| 76 | 76 | | (T) society-level risk factors such as lack 21 |
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| 77 | 77 | | of awareness of commercial exploitation and 22 |
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| 78 | 78 | | human trafficking, sexualization of children, 23 |
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| 79 | 79 | | and lack of resources. 24 |
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| 83 | 83 | | (2) According to the National Human Traf-1 |
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| 84 | 84 | | ficking Resource Center, human trafficking survivors 2 |
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| 85 | 85 | | have been identified in cities, suburbs, and rural 3 |
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| 86 | 86 | | areas in all 50 States, and in Washington, DC. The 4 |
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| 87 | 87 | | 3 States with the highest incidents of human traf-5 |
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| 88 | 88 | | ficking cases reported via phone calls, emails, and 6 |
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| 89 | 89 | | online tips to the National Human Trafficking Hot-7 |
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| 90 | 90 | | line in 2018 were California, Texas, and Florida, re-8 |
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| 91 | 91 | | spectively. 9 |
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| 92 | 92 | | (3) According to the National Human Traf-10 |
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| 93 | 93 | | ficking Resource Center, the top recruitment meth-11 |
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| 94 | 94 | | ods used by sex traffickers based on self-reported 12 |
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| 95 | 95 | | data from survivors involve an intimate partner or 13 |
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| 96 | 96 | | marriage proposition, family members, individuals 14 |
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| 97 | 97 | | posing as a benefactor, offers of employment, or in-15 |
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| 98 | 98 | | dividuals perpetrating fraud or offering false prom-16 |
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| 99 | 99 | | ises. 17 |
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| 100 | 100 | | (4) According to the National Center on Safe 18 |
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| 101 | 101 | | Supportive Learning Environments, traffickers may 19 |
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| 102 | 102 | | systematically target vulnerable children by fre-20 |
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| 103 | 103 | | quenting locations where children congregate—malls, 21 |
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| 104 | 104 | | schools, bus and train stations, and group homes, 22 |
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| 105 | 105 | | among other locations. Traffickers also use peers or 23 |
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| 106 | 106 | | classmates who befriend the target and slowly groom 24 |
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| 107 | 107 | | the child for the trafficker by bringing the child 25 |
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| 111 | 111 | | along to parties and other activities. According to 1 |
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| 112 | 112 | | Common Sense Media, nearly all children age 8 and 2 |
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| 113 | 113 | | under live in a home with some type of mobile device 3 |
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| 114 | 114 | | and use it every day. This is especially concerning 4 |
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| 115 | 115 | | given that traffickers often recruit through social 5 |
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| 116 | 116 | | media platforms and other websites. 6 |
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| 117 | 117 | | (5) Those within vulnerable populations are 7 |
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| 118 | 118 | | often exploited or groomed for entry into human 8 |
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| 119 | 119 | | trafficking at a very young age. According to a 2005 9 |
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| 120 | 120 | | clinical report, ‘‘The Evaluation of Sexual Abuse in 10 |
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| 121 | 121 | | Children’’, published by the American Academy of 11 |
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| 122 | 122 | | Pediatrics, studies have suggested that each year ap-12 |
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| 123 | 123 | | proximately 739,000 children experience some form 13 |
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| 124 | 124 | | of sexual abuse, resulting in the sexual victimization 14 |
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| 125 | 125 | | of 12 percent to 25 percent of girls and 8 percent 15 |
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| 126 | 126 | | to 10 percent of boys before the age of 18. 16 |
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| 127 | 127 | | (6) Sex trafficking and exploitation can take 17 |
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| 128 | 128 | | many harmful forms, including a lesser-known but 18 |
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| 129 | 129 | | just as damaging form of uncoerced exploitation re-19 |
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| 130 | 130 | | ferred to as ‘‘survival sex’’, meaning the exchange of 20 |
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| 131 | 131 | | sex for basic needs including clothing, food, shelter, 21 |
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| 132 | 132 | | or other basic necessities. Survival sex does not in-22 |
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| 133 | 133 | | volve a third-party trafficker or exploiter, and often 23 |
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| 134 | 134 | | affects youth, including those who are homeless, 24 |
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| 135 | 135 | | runaways, or housing-insecure, who lack the finan-25 |
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| 139 | 139 | | cial resources, job readiness, support system, or op-1 |
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| 140 | 140 | | portunity to afford or access these basic necessities. 2 |
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| 141 | 141 | | (7) Training students, teachers, and school per-3 |
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| 142 | 142 | | sonnel to understand, recognize, and respond to 4 |
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| 143 | 143 | | signs of human trafficking and exploitation in chil-5 |
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| 144 | 144 | | dren and youth is invaluable in the effort to identify 6 |
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| 145 | 145 | | and prevent human trafficking and exploitation be-7 |
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| 146 | 146 | | fore it occurs. According to the National Human 8 |
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| 147 | 147 | | Trafficking Resource Center, the widespread lack of 9 |
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| 148 | 148 | | awareness and understanding of human trafficking 10 |
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| 149 | 149 | | leads to low levels of survivor identification by the 11 |
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| 150 | 150 | | people who most often encounter them. Survivors of 12 |
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| 151 | 151 | | human trafficking are often forced to work or pro-13 |
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| 152 | 152 | | vide commercial sex against their will in legal and le-14 |
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| 153 | 153 | | gitimate business settings or underground markets. 15 |
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| 154 | 154 | | It is often the case that those who are being ex-16 |
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| 155 | 155 | | ploited or trafficked are in plain view and may inter-17 |
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| 156 | 156 | | act with community members, underscoring the ur-18 |
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| 157 | 157 | | gent need for the expansion of training programs to 19 |
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| 158 | 158 | | increase awareness and prevention activities in com-20 |
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| 159 | 159 | | munities across the United States. 21 |
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| 163 | 163 | | SEC. 3. DEMONSTRATION PROJECT TO TRAIN STUDENTS, 1 |
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| 164 | 164 | | TEACHERS, AND SCHOOL PERSONNEL TO UN-2 |
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| 165 | 165 | | DERSTAND, RECOGNIZE, PREVENT, AND RE-3 |
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| 166 | 166 | | SPOND TO SIGNS OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING 4 |
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| 167 | 167 | | AND CHILD EXPLOITATION. 5 |
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| 168 | 168 | | Section 582 of the Public Health Service Act (42 6 |
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| 169 | 169 | | U.S.C. 290hh–1) is amended— 7 |
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| 170 | 170 | | (1) by redesignating subsections (j) and (k) as 8 |
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| 171 | 171 | | subsections (k) and (l), respectively; 9 |
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| 172 | 172 | | (2) by inserting after subsection (i) the fol-10 |
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| 173 | 173 | | lowing: 11 |
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| 174 | 174 | | ‘‘(j) D |
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| 175 | 175 | | EMONSTRATION PROJECTTOTRAINSTU-12 |
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| 176 | 176 | | DENTS, TEACHERS, ANDSCHOOLPERSONNELTOUN-13 |
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| 177 | 177 | | DERSTAND, RECOGNIZE, PREVENT, ANDRESPOND TO 14 |
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| 178 | 178 | | S |
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| 179 | 179 | | IGNS OFHUMANTRAFFICKING AND CHILDEXPLOI-15 |
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| 180 | 180 | | TATION.— 16 |
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| 181 | 181 | | ‘‘(1) I |
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| 182 | 182 | | N GENERAL.—The Director of the Office 17 |
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| 183 | 183 | | on Trafficking in Persons of the Administration for 18 |
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| 184 | 184 | | Children and Families (in this subsection referred to 19 |
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| 185 | 185 | | as the ‘Director’) shall carry out a demonstration 20 |
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| 186 | 186 | | project for training students, teachers, and school 21 |
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| 187 | 187 | | personnel at elementary schools and secondary 22 |
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| 188 | 188 | | schools to understand, recognize, prevent, and re-23 |
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| 189 | 189 | | spond to signs of human trafficking and exploitation 24 |
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| 190 | 190 | | in children and youth. 25 |
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| 194 | 194 | | ‘‘(2) PROJECT ACTIVITIES.—In carrying out the 1 |
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| 195 | 195 | | demonstration project under this subsection, the Di-2 |
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| 196 | 196 | | rector shall— 3 |
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| 197 | 197 | | ‘‘(A) approve vendors pursuant to para-4 |
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| 198 | 198 | | graph (3); 5 |
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| 199 | 199 | | ‘‘(B) award grants pursuant to paragraph 6 |
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| 200 | 200 | | (4); 7 |
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| 201 | 201 | | ‘‘(C) develop a reliable methodology for 8 |
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| 202 | 202 | | vendors and grantees to collect, and report to 9 |
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| 203 | 203 | | the Director, in a manner that prevents disclo-10 |
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| 204 | 204 | | sure of individually identifiable information con-11 |
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| 205 | 205 | | sistent with all applicable privacy laws and reg-12 |
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| 206 | 206 | | ulations, data on the number of human traf-13 |
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| 207 | 207 | | ficking survivors identified and served pursuant 14 |
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| 208 | 208 | | to this subsection, the number of students in el-15 |
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| 209 | 209 | | ementary school or secondary school identified 16 |
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| 210 | 210 | | as being at risk of being trafficked or exploited, 17 |
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| 211 | 211 | | and the demographics of such survivors and 18 |
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| 212 | 212 | | students at risk; and 19 |
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| 213 | 213 | | ‘‘(D) assist entities that are eligible for 20 |
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| 214 | 214 | | grants under paragraph (4) in developing prop-21 |
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| 215 | 215 | | er protocols and procedures to— 22 |
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| 216 | 216 | | ‘‘(i) work with law enforcement to re-23 |
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| 217 | 217 | | port, and facilitate communication with, 24 |
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| 221 | 221 | | human trafficking survivors and exploited 1 |
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| 222 | 222 | | children; and 2 |
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| 223 | 223 | | ‘‘(ii) refer human trafficking survivors 3 |
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| 224 | 224 | | and exploited children to appropriate social 4 |
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| 225 | 225 | | or survivor service agencies or organiza-5 |
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| 226 | 226 | | tions. 6 |
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| 227 | 227 | | ‘‘(3) V |
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| 228 | 228 | | ENDORS.— 7 |
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| 229 | 229 | | ‘‘(A) I |
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| 230 | 230 | | N GENERAL.—In carrying out the 8 |
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| 231 | 231 | | demonstration project under this subsection, 9 |
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| 232 | 232 | | the Director shall approve a list of nonprofit or-10 |
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| 233 | 233 | | ganizations as verified vendors— 11 |
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| 234 | 234 | | ‘‘(i) to develop or make available cur-12 |
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| 235 | 235 | | ricula for the training described in para-13 |
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| 236 | 236 | | graph (1); and 14 |
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| 237 | 237 | | ‘‘(ii) to implement such training in ac-15 |
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| 238 | 238 | | cordance with such curricula. 16 |
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| 239 | 239 | | ‘‘(B) C |
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| 240 | 240 | | ONSIDERATIONS.—In approving 17 |
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| 241 | 241 | | vendors under this subsection, the Director 18 |
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| 242 | 242 | | shall give consideration to whether the non-19 |
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| 243 | 243 | | profit organization— 20 |
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| 244 | 244 | | ‘‘(i) engages stakeholders, including 21 |
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| 245 | 245 | | survivors of human trafficking, and Fed-22 |
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| 246 | 246 | | eral, State, local, and Tribal partners, to 23 |
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| 247 | 247 | | develop the curricula; and 24 |
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| 251 | 251 | | ‘‘(ii) has a demonstrated expertise 1 |
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| 252 | 252 | | in— 2 |
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| 253 | 253 | | ‘‘(I) developing human traf-3 |
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| 254 | 254 | | ficking and exploitation prevention 4 |
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| 255 | 255 | | curricula for students, teachers, or 5 |
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| 256 | 256 | | school personnel in elementary school 6 |
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| 257 | 257 | | and secondary school that is— 7 |
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| 258 | 258 | | ‘‘(aa) age-appropriate; 8 |
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| 259 | 259 | | ‘‘(bb) culturally competent; 9 |
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| 260 | 260 | | ‘‘(cc) evidence based; 10 |
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| 261 | 261 | | ‘‘(dd) validated by university 11 |
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| 262 | 262 | | research partners; 12 |
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| 263 | 263 | | ‘‘(ee) inclusive of K–12 stu-13 |
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| 264 | 264 | | dents; 14 |
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| 265 | 265 | | ‘‘(ff) adaptive to all regions; 15 |
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| 266 | 266 | | ‘‘(gg) inclusive of all chil-16 |
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| 267 | 267 | | dren; and 17 |
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| 268 | 268 | | ‘‘(hh) based on vetted and 18 |
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| 269 | 269 | | proven materials that have been 19 |
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| 270 | 270 | | tested over a 3-year run of suc-20 |
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| 271 | 271 | | cess; 21 |
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| 272 | 272 | | ‘‘(II) training students, teachers, 22 |
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| 273 | 273 | | or school personnel in identification 23 |
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| 274 | 274 | | and proper response to human traf-24 |
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| 278 | 278 | | ficking described in paragraph (1); 1 |
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| 279 | 279 | | and 2 |
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| 280 | 280 | | ‘‘(III) creating a scalable, repeat-3 |
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| 281 | 281 | | able ‘Train the Trainer’ program (de-4 |
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| 282 | 282 | | fined as a program that trains in-5 |
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| 283 | 283 | | structors who can teach material to 6 |
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| 284 | 284 | | other instructors) that employs appro-7 |
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| 285 | 285 | | priate technology tools and methodolo-8 |
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| 286 | 286 | | gies, including measurement and 9 |
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| 287 | 287 | | training curricula. 10 |
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| 288 | 288 | | ‘‘(4) G |
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| 289 | 289 | | RANTS.— 11 |
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| 290 | 290 | | ‘‘(A) I |
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| 291 | 291 | | N GENERAL.—In carrying out the 12 |
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| 292 | 292 | | demonstration project under this subsection, 13 |
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| 293 | 293 | | the Director shall award grants to eligible enti-14 |
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| 294 | 294 | | ties to implement the training described in 15 |
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| 295 | 295 | | paragraph (1) in accordance with the curricula 16 |
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| 296 | 296 | | developed and made available by verified ven-17 |
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| 297 | 297 | | dors pursuant to paragraph (3). 18 |
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| 298 | 298 | | ‘‘(B) D |
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| 299 | 299 | | IVERSITY OF GRANTS .—In award-19 |
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| 300 | 300 | | ing grants under this subsection, the Director 20 |
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| 301 | 301 | | shall— 21 |
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| 302 | 302 | | ‘‘(i) consult with the Director of the 22 |
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| 303 | 303 | | Bureau of Justice Assistance, the Adminis-23 |
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| 304 | 304 | | trator for the Office of Juvenile Justice 24 |
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| 305 | 305 | | and Delinquency Prevention, the Director 25 |
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| 309 | 309 | | of the Office for Victims of Crime, and the 1 |
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| 310 | 310 | | head of the Office of Partnership and En-2 |
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| 311 | 311 | | gagement of the Department of Homeland 3 |
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| 312 | 312 | | Security to identify the geographic areas in 4 |
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| 313 | 313 | | the United States with the highest preva-5 |
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| 314 | 314 | | lence of reported human trafficking in-6 |
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| 315 | 315 | | stances for children, aged 5 through 17; 7 |
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| 316 | 316 | | ‘‘(ii) consult, as appropriate, with the 8 |
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| 317 | 317 | | Secretary of Education, the Secretary of 9 |
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| 318 | 318 | | Housing and Urban Development, the Sec-10 |
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| 319 | 319 | | retary of Labor, and the Attorney General 11 |
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| 320 | 320 | | of the United States to identify the geo-12 |
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| 321 | 321 | | graphic areas in the United States with 13 |
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| 322 | 322 | | the highest prevalence of at risk, vulner-14 |
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| 323 | 323 | | able, or underserved populations, including 15 |
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| 324 | 324 | | homeless youth, foster youth, youth in-16 |
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| 325 | 325 | | volved in the child welfare system, and 17 |
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| 326 | 326 | | runaways; and 18 |
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| 327 | 327 | | ‘‘(iii) give priority to eligible entities 19 |
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| 328 | 328 | | located in, or primarily serving, one or 20 |
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| 329 | 329 | | more areas identified pursuant to clause (i) 21 |
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| 330 | 330 | | or (ii). 22 |
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| 331 | 331 | | ‘‘(C) A |
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| 332 | 332 | | LLOCATION OF GRANT FUNDING .— 23 |
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| 337 | 337 | | under this subsection are awarded to applicants 1 |
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| 338 | 338 | | who serve K–12 students. 2 |
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| 340 | 340 | | EFINITION.—In this paragraph, the 3 |
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| 341 | 341 | | term ‘eligible entity’ includes a nonprofit orga-4 |
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| 342 | 342 | | nization, an elementary school, a local edu-5 |
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| 343 | 343 | | cational agency, a secondary school, and a State 6 |
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| 344 | 344 | | educational agency. 7 |
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| 345 | 345 | | ‘‘(5) D |
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| 348 | 348 | | N GENERAL.—The Director shall 9 |
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| 349 | 349 | | collect, and report to the Congress, data on the 10 |
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| 350 | 350 | | following: 11 |
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| 351 | 351 | | ‘‘(i) The total number of entities that 12 |
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| 352 | 352 | | received a grant under this subsection. 13 |
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| 353 | 353 | | ‘‘(ii) The total number of elementary 14 |
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| 354 | 354 | | and secondary schools that established 15 |
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| 355 | 355 | | proper protocols and procedures through 16 |
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| 356 | 356 | | program development. 17 |
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| 357 | 357 | | ‘‘(iii) The total number and geo-18 |
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| 358 | 358 | | graphic distribution of students, teachers, 19 |
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| 359 | 359 | | and school personnel trained pursuant to 20 |
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| 360 | 360 | | this subsection. 21 |
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| 361 | 361 | | ‘‘(iv) The results of pretraining and 22 |
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| 362 | 362 | | posttraining surveys to gauge increased 23 |
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| 363 | 363 | | understanding and recognition of signs of 24 |
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| 367 | 367 | | human trafficking and exploitation in chil-1 |
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| 368 | 368 | | dren and youth. 2 |
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| 369 | 369 | | ‘‘(v) The number of human trafficking 3 |
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| 370 | 370 | | survivors and exploited children identified 4 |
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| 371 | 371 | | and served by vendors and grantees under 5 |
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| 372 | 372 | | this subsection, excluding any individually 6 |
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| 373 | 373 | | identifiable information about such sur-7 |
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| 374 | 374 | | vivors and children. 8 |
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| 375 | 375 | | ‘‘(vi) The number of students in ele-9 |
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| 376 | 376 | | mentary school or secondary school identi-10 |
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| 377 | 377 | | fied by vendors and grantees under this 11 |
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| 378 | 378 | | subsection as being at risk of being traf-12 |
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| 379 | 379 | | ficked or exploited, excluding any individ-13 |
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| 380 | 380 | | ually identifiable information about such 14 |
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| 381 | 381 | | survivors. 15 |
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| 382 | 382 | | ‘‘(vii) The demographics of human 16 |
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| 383 | 383 | | trafficking survivors, exploited children, 17 |
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| 384 | 384 | | and students at risk of being trafficked or 18 |
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| 385 | 385 | | exploited described in clauses (v) and (vi), 19 |
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| 386 | 386 | | excluding any individually identifiable in-20 |
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| 387 | 387 | | formation about such survivors, children, 21 |
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| 388 | 388 | | and students. 22 |
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| 389 | 389 | | ‘‘(viii) Any best practices identified by 23 |
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| 390 | 390 | | the grantees under this subsection. 24 |
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| 394 | 394 | | ‘‘(B) ANNUAL REPORT .—The Director 1 |
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| 395 | 395 | | shall— 2 |
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| 396 | 396 | | ‘‘(i) submit a report under subpara-3 |
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| 397 | 397 | | graph (A) not later than 1 year after the 4 |
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| 398 | 398 | | date of enactment of this subsection and 5 |
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| 399 | 399 | | annually thereafter; and 6 |
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| 400 | 400 | | ‘‘(ii) prepare and submit each such re-7 |
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| 401 | 401 | | port in a manner that prevents the disclo-8 |
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| 402 | 402 | | sure of individually identifiable information 9 |
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| 403 | 403 | | consistent with all applicable privacy laws 10 |
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| 404 | 404 | | and regulations. 11 |
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| 407 | 407 | | ‘‘(A) The terms ‘elementary school’, ‘local 13 |
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| 408 | 408 | | educational agency’, ‘middle grades’, ‘secondary 14 |
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| 409 | 409 | | school’, and ‘State educational agency’ have the 15 |
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| 410 | 410 | | meanings given to those terms in section 8101 16 |
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| 411 | 411 | | of the Elementary and Secondary Education 17 |
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| 412 | 412 | | Act of 1965. 18 |
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| 413 | 413 | | ‘‘(B) The term ‘school personnel’ includes 19 |
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| 414 | 414 | | school resource officers, school nurses, school 20 |
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| 415 | 415 | | counselors, school principals, school administra-21 |
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| 416 | 416 | | tors, and other school leadership.’’; and 22 |
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| 417 | 417 | | (3) in subsection (k) (authorizing appropria-23 |
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| 418 | 418 | | tions), as redesignated by paragraph (1)— 24 |
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| 422 | 422 | | (A) by striking ‘‘There is authorized to be 1 |
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| 423 | 423 | | appropriated to carry out this section’’ and in-2 |
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| 424 | 424 | | serting the following: 3 |
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| 425 | 425 | | ‘‘(1) I |
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| 426 | 426 | | N GENERAL.—There is authorized to be 4 |
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| 427 | 427 | | appropriated to carry out this section (other than 5 |
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| 428 | 428 | | subsection (j))’’; and 6 |
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| 429 | 429 | | (B) by adding at the end the following: 7 |
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| 430 | 430 | | ‘‘(2) D |
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| 431 | 431 | | EMONSTRATION PROJECT FUNDING .— 8 |
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| 432 | 432 | | There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out 9 |
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| 433 | 433 | | subsection (j) $15,000,000 for each of fiscal years 10 |
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| 434 | 434 | | 2026 through 2029.’’. 11 |
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