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Title IV — Improved Data Collection and Interagency Coordination

115th Congress · Approved Dec 21, 2018 · 132 Stat. 5265

TITLE IV Improved Data Collection and Interagency Coordination

SEC. 401. Promoting Data Collection on Human Trafficking.

(a)
Prevalence of Human Trafficking.— Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Attorney General shall submit to Congress a report on the efforts of the National Institute of Justice to develop a methodology to assess the prevalence of human trafficking in the United States, including a timeline for completion of the methodology.
(b)
Innocence Lost National Initiative.— Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation shall submit to the Committee on the Judiciary and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate and the Committee on the Judiciary and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives a report on the status of the Innocence Lost National Initiative, which shall include, for each of the last 5 fiscal years, information on—
(1)
the number of human traffickers who were arrested, disaggregated by—
(A)
the number of individuals arrested for patronizing or soliciting an adult;
(B)
the number of individuals arrested for recruitment, harboring, maintaining, or obtaining an adult;
(C)
the number of individuals arrested for patronizing or soliciting a minor; and
(D)
the number of individuals arrested for recruitment, harboring, maintaining, or obtaining a minor;
(2)
the number of adults who were arrested on charges of prostitution;
(3)
the number of minor victims who were identified;
(4)
the number of minor victims who were arrested and formally petitioned by a juvenile court or criminally charged; and
(5)
the placement of and social services provided to each such minor victim as part of each State operation.
(c)
Availability of Reports.— The reports required under subsections (a) and (b) shall be posted on the website of the Department of Justice.

SEC. 402. Crime Reporting.

Section 7332(c) of the Uniform Federal Crime Reporting Act of 1988 (28 U.S.C. 534 note) is amended—
(1)
in paragraph (3), by striking “ in the form of annual Uniform Crime Reports for the United States” and inserting “ not less frequently than annually”; and
(2)
by adding at the end the following:

“(4) Interagency coordination.—

“(A) In general.—Not later than 90 days after the date of enactment of this paragraph, the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation shall coordinate with the head of each department or agency within the Federal Government that is subject to the mandatory reporting requirements under paragraph (2) for the purpose of ensuring successful implementation of paragraph (2).

“(B) For report.—Not later than 6 months after the date of enactment of this paragraph, the head of each department or agency within the Federal Government that is subject to the mandatory reporting requirements under paragraph (2) shall provide the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation such information as the Director determines is necessary to complete the first report required under paragraph (5).

“(5) Annual report by federal bureau of investigation.—Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this paragraph, and annually thereafter, the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation shall prepare and submit to the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate and the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives a report detailing the efforts of the departments and agencies within the Federal Government to come into compliance with paragraph (2). The report shall contain a list of all departments and agencies within the Federal Government subject to paragraph (2) and whether each department or agency is in compliance with paragraph (2).”

SEC. 403. Human Trafficking Assessment.

Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the Executive Associate Director of Homeland Security Investigations shall submit to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate, and the Committee on Homeland Security and the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives a report on human trafficking investigations undertaken by Homeland Security Investigations that includes—
(1)
the number of confirmed human trafficking investigations by category, including labor trafficking, sex trafficking, and transnational and domestic human trafficking;
(2)
the number of victims by category, including—
(A)
whether the victim is a victim of sex trafficking or a victim of labor trafficking; and
(B)
whether the victim is a minor or an adult; and
(3)
an analysis of the data described in paragraphs (1) and (2) and other data available to Homeland Security Investigations that indicates any general human trafficking or investigatory trends.