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INFORMATION .
118TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 118-355
ENHANCING DETECTION OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING ACT
JANUARY 25, 2024.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Ms. Foxx, from the Committee on Education and the Workforce,
submitted the following
R E P O R T
together with
MINORITY VIEWS
[To accompany H.R. 443]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Education and the Workforce, to whom was
referred the bill (H.R. 443) to direct the Secretary of Labor to train
certain employees of Department of Labor how to effectively detect
and assist law enforcement in preventing human trafficking during
the course of their official duties, and for other purposes, having
considered the same, reports favorably thereon with an amendment
and recommends that the bill as amended do pass.
The amendment is as follows:
Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following:
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the Enhancing Detection of Human Trafficking Act.
SEC. 2. DEFINITION OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING.
In this Act, the term human trafficking means any act or practice described in
paragraph (11) of section 103 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22
U.S.C. 7102).
SEC. 3. TRAINING FOR DEPARTMENT PERSONNEL TO IDENTIFY HUMAN TRAFFICKING.
(a) IN GENERAL.-Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act,
the Secretary of Labor shall implement a program to provide the training and peri-
odic continuing education described in subsection (b) to employees of the Depart-
ment of Labor whom the Secretary determines should receive such training or edu-
cation based on their official duties. In making such determination with respect to
employees of the Wage and Hour Division, the Secretary shall consider the training
and education needs of such employees operating in a State with a significant in-
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