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Enhancing Services for Runaway and Homeless Victims of Youth Trafficking Act of 2015

Introduced: January 26, 2015 See on congress.gov
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Jan 27, 2015
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Jan 26, 2015
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Jan 26, 2015
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H548)
Jan 26, 2015
Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H548)
Jan 26, 2015
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 468.
Jan 26, 2015
Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H548-549)
Jan 26, 2015
Mr. Walberg moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
Jan 22, 2015
Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
Jan 22, 2015
Introduced in House
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Enhancing Services for Runaway and Homeless Victims of Youth Trafficking Act of 2015

(Sec. 2) Amends the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act with respect to grants to states, localities, and private entities to carry out research, evaluation, demonstration, and service projects regarding activities designed to increase knowledge concerning, and to improve services for, runaway youth and homeless youth.

Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to give priority to proposed projects relating to staff training in:

  • the behavioral and emotional effects of severe forms of trafficking in persons and sex trafficking,
  • responding to youth who are showing effects of severe forms of trafficking in persons and sex trafficking, and
  • agency-wide strategies for working with runaway and homeless youth who are victims of trafficking.

Extends the Secretary's authority to make grants to nonprofit private agencies for the purpose of providing street-based services to runaway and homeless, and street youth, who have been subjected to, or are at risk of being subjected to, sexual abuse, prostitution, or sexual exploitation. Extends the scope of such grants also to street-based services to runaway and homeless, and street youth, who have been subjected to, or are at risk of being subjected to, severe forms of trafficking in persons and sex trafficking.

What's happening now January 27, 2015

Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

 Related & companion bills 1
  • S 529 Related bill Combating Human Trafficking Act of 2015
 Bill text 3 versions

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 Committees of jurisdiction 2
 Cosponsors 7
All 7 Democratic 2 Republican 3
Bishop, Mike
· Jan 26, 2015
Curbelo, Carlos
· Jan 26, 2015
 R
Guthrie, Brett
Kentucky · Jan 26, 2015
 R
Thompson, Glenn
Pennsylvania · Jan 26, 2015
 D
Watson Coleman, Bonnie
New Jersey · Jan 26, 2015
 D
Scott, Robert C. "Bobby"
Virginia · Jan 22, 2015
 R
Walberg, Tim
Michigan · Jan 22, 2015
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 468: Enhancing Services for Runaway and Homeless Victims of Youth Trafficking Act of 2015. 114th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-468/
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"H.R. 468: Enhancing Services for Runaway and Homeless Victims of Youth Trafficking Act of 2015." 114th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-468/.
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