Sec. 201. Interagency Task Force To Monitor and Combat Trafficking
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Section 105(b) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 ( 22 U.S.C. 7103(b) ) is amended by inserting after Education, the following: the Director of the Peace Corps, . Section 105(d)(7) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 ( 22 U.S.C. 7103(d)(7) ) is amended— by redesignating subparagraphs
(D)through
(J)as subparagraphs
(I)through (O); by striking subparagraphs
(B)and
(C)and inserting the following: the number of persons who have been granted continued presence in the United States under section 107(c)(3) during the preceding fiscal year and the mean and median time taken to adjudicate applications submitted under such section, including the time from the receipt of an application by law enforcement to the issuance of continued presence, and a description of any efforts being taken to reduce the adjudication and processing time while ensuring the safe and competent processing of the applications; the number of persons who have applied for, been granted, or been denied a visa or otherwise provided status under subparagraph (T)(i) or (U)(i) of section 101(a)(15) of the Immigration and Nationality Act ( 8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15) ) during the preceding fiscal year; the number of persons who have applied for, been granted, or been denied a visa or status under clause
(ii)of section 101(a)(15)(T) of the Immigration and Nationality Act ( 8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(T) ) during the preceding fiscal year, broken down by the number of such persons described in subclauses (I), (II), and
(III)of such clause (ii); the amount of Federal funds expended in direct benefits paid to individuals described in subparagraph
(D)in conjunction with T visa status; the number of persons who have applied for, been granted, or been denied a visa or status under section 101(a)(15)(U)(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(U)(i)) during the preceding fiscal year; the mean and median time in which it takes to adjudicate applications submitted under the provisions of law set forth in subparagraph (C), including the time between the receipt of an application and the issuance of a visa and work authorization; any efforts being taken to reduce the adjudication and processing time, while ensuring the safe and competent processing of the applications; ; in subparagraph (N)(iii), as redesignated, by striking and at the end; in subparagraph (O), as redesignated, by striking the period at the end and inserting ; and ; and by adding at the end the following: the activities undertaken by Federal agencies to train appropriate State, tribal, and local government and law enforcement officials to identify victims of severe forms of trafficking, including both sex and labor trafficking; the activities undertaken by Federal agencies in cooperation with State, tribal, and local law enforcement officials to identify, investigate, and prosecute offenses under sections 1581, 1583, 1584, 1589, 1590, 1592, and 1594 of title 18, United States Code, or equivalent State offenses, including, in each fiscal year— the number, age, gender, country of origin, and citizenship status of victims identified for each offense; the number of individuals charged, and the number of individuals convicted, under each offense; the number of individuals referred for prosecution for State offenses, including offenses relating to the purchasing of commercial sex acts; the number of victims granted continued presence in the United States under section 107(c)(3); and the number of victims granted a visa or otherwise provided status under subparagraph (T)(i) or (U)(i) of section 101(a)(15) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)); and the activities undertaken by the Department of Justice and the Department of Health and Human Services to meet the specific needs of minor victims of domestic trafficking, including actions taken pursuant to subsection
(f)and section 202(a) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2005 (42 U.S.C. 14044(a)), and the steps taken to increase cooperation among Federal agencies to ensure the effective and efficient use of programs for which the victims are eligible. . Section 105(d)(7) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 ( 22 U.S.C. 7103(d)(7) ) is amended— in subparagraph (M)(iii), as redesignated by subsection (b), by striking the semicolon at the end and inserting the following: , including whether— employee handbooks or handbook equivalents of such government contractors and subcontractors describe the United States Government’s zero-tolerance policy regarding trafficking in persons and the actions, up to and including termination, that the employer will take against its employees for violations of the zero-tolerance policy; and any employees of such government contractors or subcontractors have been disciplined or terminated or prosecuted for violation of the zero-tolerance policy; ; and in subparagraph (N)(i), as redesignated by subsection (b), by adding at the end before the semicolon the following: , including the extent to which Federal departments and agencies have terminated any contracts of United States Government’s contractors or subcontractors based on a trafficking in persons offense and whether any employees of any United States Government’s contractor or subcontractor have been disciplined, terminated, or prosecuted for violation of the zero-tolerance policy . Section 105(d)(7) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 ( 22 U.S.C. 7103(d)(7) ), as amended by subsection
(b)of this section, is further amended— in subparagraph (N), as redesignated by subsection (b), by striking and at the end; in subparagraph (O), as redesignated by subsection (b), by striking the period at the end and inserting ; and ; and by adding the following: with regard to grant activities of the Bureau of Justice Assistance— for each human trafficking taskforce whose operations are supported by grants from the Department of Justice, the number of reports of trafficking, investigations of trafficking, T- and U-visa certifications requested and granted in connection with instances of trafficking, requests for continuation of presence under 107(c)(A)(iii) and grants of the same; a description of the data described in clause
(i)classified by certain identifying information of each trafficking victim including sex, age, citizenship, and whether that individual was the victim of trafficking for purposes of labor or for commercial sex; and an outline of the content of any existing protocols of the human trafficking taskforce for reporting trafficking and points of entry into the criminal investigation and service provision collaboration. .
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Interagency Task Force To Monitor and Combat Trafficking
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