Sec. 124. Ensuring anti-trafficking-in-persons trainings and provisions into codes of conduct of all Federal departments and executive agencies
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Congress finds the following: Human trafficking is inimical to every Federal agency’s core values and inherently harmful and dehumanizing. Through the adoption of a Code of Conduct, Federal agencies hold their personnel to similar standards that are required of contractors and subcontractors of the agency under Federal law. Human trafficking is a violation of human rights and against Federal law. The United States Government seeks to deter activities that would facilitate or support trafficking in persons.
It is the sense of Congress that— every agency head should incorporate a module on human trafficking into its staff training requirements and menu of topics to be covered in the annual ethics training of the agency beginning no later than 18 months after the date of the enactment of this Act; both labor and sex trafficking should be covered in the staff trainings and include how to prevent, identify, and report trafficking in persons; agencies that already provide counter trafficking-in-persons training for staff should share their curricula with ones that do not have one; the head of each agency should inform all candidates for employment about the anti-trafficking provisions in the Code of Conduct of the agency; employees should also sign acknowledgment of the Code of Conduct, and it should be kept in the file of the employee; and violation of the Code of Conduct should lead to disciplinary action up to and including termination of employment.
The President shall take such steps as may be necessary to ensure that each officer and employee (including temporary employees, persons stationed abroad while working for the United States, and details from other agencies of the Federal Government) of an agency in the executive branch of the Federal Government is subject to a policy with a minimum standard that contains the following: A prohibition from engaging in any severe form of trafficking in persons (as defined in section 103 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 ( 22 U.S.C. 7102 )) while employed by the Government in a full-time or part-time capacity.
A requirement that all Federal personnel, without regard to whether the person is stationed abroad, be sensitized to human trafficking and the ethical conduct requirements that prohibit the procurement of trafficking in persons. A requirement that all such personnel be equipped with the necessary knowledge and tools to prevent, recognize, report, and address human trafficking offenses through a training for new personnel and through regular refresher courses offered every two years.
A requirement that all such personnel report to the applicable inspector general and agency trafficking in persons point of contact any suspected cases of misconduct, waste, fraud, or abuse relating to trafficking in persons. The policy described in subsection (c)— shall be established or integrated into all applicable employee codes of conduct not later than 18 months after the date of the enactment of this Act; shall not replace any pre-existing code of conduct that is more robust; and shall be signed by all applicable personnel (as described in subsection (c)) not later than 2 years after such date of enactment.
The Office of Inspector General of a department or agency, in consultation with the head of the agency, shall report to Congress and the public, on an annual basis— the number of suspected violations reported; the number of investigations; the status and outcomes of such investigations; and when appropriate, recommend actions to improve the programs and operations of the agency.
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Sec. 124
Ensuring anti-trafficking-in-persons trainings and provisions into codes of conduct of all Federal departments and executive agencies
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