---
kind: "section"
citation: "6 U.S.C. § 645a"
title: "6"
title_heading: "Domestic Security"
number: "645a"
heading: "Human trafficking assessment"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/6/645a"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — Homeland Security Organization"
  - "Subchapter XVII — Anti-Trafficking Training for Department of Homeland Security Personnel"
---

# §645a. Human trafficking assessment


Not later than 1 year after December 21, 2018, and annually thereafter, the Executive Associate [Director](/usc/6/677a.md?p=3) of [Homeland](/usc/6/101.md?p=1) Security Investigations shall submit to the Committee on [Homeland](/usc/6/101.md?p=1) Security and Governmental Affairs and the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate, and the Committee on [Homeland](/usc/6/101.md?p=1) Security and the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives a report on [human trafficking](/usc/6/641.md?p=2) investigations undertaken by [Homeland](/usc/6/101.md?p=1) Security Investigations that includes—

- (1) the number of confirmed [human trafficking](/usc/6/641.md?p=2) investigations by category, including labor trafficking, sex trafficking, and transnational and domestic [human trafficking](/usc/6/641.md?p=2);
- (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)](#1) and [(2)](#2) and other data available to [Homeland](/usc/6/101.md?p=1) Security Investigations that indicates any general [human trafficking](/usc/6/641.md?p=2) or investigatory trends.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 115–393, title IV, § 403, Dec. 21, 2018, 132 Stat. 5275.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was enacted as part of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2017, and not as part of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 which comprises this chapter.