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S 205 114th Congress Senate

Trafficking Awareness Training for Health Care Act of 2015

Official title: A bill to provide for the development and dissemination of evidence-based best practices for health care professionals to recognize victims of a severe form of… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: A bill to provide for the development and dissemination of evidence-based best practices for health care professionals to recognize victims of a severe form of trafficking and respond to such individuals appropriately, and for other purposes.

Introduced: January 21, 2015 Introduced by: Cassidy, Bill Republican · Louisiana See on congress.gov
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Jan 21, 2015
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 Latest action January 21, 2015

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

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Trafficking Awareness Training for Health Care Act of 2015

Requires the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to award one medical or nursing school a grant to develop best practices for health care professionals to recognize and respond appropriately to victims of severe forms of human trafficking.

Requires the grantee to: (1) develop methods or materials to train health care professionals on best practices, (2) make a subgrant to one entity in each of the 10 administrative regions of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to create a pilot program to test the best practices and training, and (3) analyze the results of the pilot programs and determine which best practices are evidence-based.

Directs HHS to disseminate evidence-based best practices on their website and to health care profession schools.
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  • HR 398 Identical bill Trafficking Awareness Training for Health Care Act of 2015
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Peters, Gary C.
Michigan · Jan 21, 2015
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 205: Trafficking Awareness Training for Health Care Act of 2015. 114th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/114-S-205/
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"S. 205: Trafficking Awareness Training for Health Care Act of 2015." 114th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/114-S-205/.
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S. 205, 114th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/114-S-205/.
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