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Stop Exploitation Through Trafficking Act of 2015

Introduced: January 6, 2015 See on congress.gov

Everywhere this bill has been 17 steps

Introduced

In committee

Reported out

Passed House

Passed Senate

To President

Became law

Feb 4, 2015

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Jan 28, 2015

Received in the Senate.

Jan 27, 2015

Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.

Jan 27, 2015

On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H592-593)

Jan 27, 2015

Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H592-593)

Jan 27, 2015

DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 159.

Jan 27, 2015

Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H592-595)

Jan 27, 2015

Mr. Sensenbrenner moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.

Jan 27, 2015

Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 2.

Jan 27, 2015

Committee on Education and the Workforce discharged.

Jan 27, 2015

Reported by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 114-6, Part I.

Jan 21, 2015

Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.

Jan 21, 2015

Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.

Jan 20, 2015

Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations Discharged.

Jan 7, 2015

Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.

Jan 6, 2015

Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

Jan 6, 2015

Introduced in House

Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Stop Exploitation Through Trafficking Act of 2015

(Sec. 2) Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to authorize the Attorney General to give preferential consideration in awarding Community Oriented Police Services grants to an application from an applicant in a state that has in effect a law that: (1) treats a minor who has engaged in, or has attempted to engage in, a commercial sex act as a victim of a severe form of trafficking in persons; (2) discourages the charging or prosecution of such individual for a prostitution or sex trafficking offense based on such conduct; and (3) encourages the diversion of such an individual to appropriate service providers, including child welfare services, victim treatment programs, child advocacy centers, rape crisis centers, or other social services.

(Sec. 3) Amends the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000 (VTVPA) to require the Attorney General's annual report on federal agencies that are implementing provisions relating to the Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking to include information on the activities of such agencies in cooperation with state, tribal, and local law enforcement officials to identify, investigate, and prosecute: (1) sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion or with a minor; (2) sexual exploitation of children; (3) the selling and buying of children; (4) transportation with intent that the victim engage in illegal sexual activity; (5) coercion or enticement to travel for illegal sexual activity; and (6) transportation of minors for illegal sexual activity.

(Sec. 4) Amends the VTVPA to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services, annually beginning in FY2017, to make grants for a national communication system to assist victims of severe forms of trafficking in persons in communicating with service providers.

(Sec. 5) Amends the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act to include victims of a severe form of trafficking in persons among those eligible for the Job Corps without being required to demonstrate low-income eligibility.

(Sec. 6) Amends the federal judicial code to authorize the United States Marshals Service to assist state, local, and other federal law enforcement agencies, upon request, in locating and recovering missing children.

What's happening now February 4, 2015

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

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