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H.R. 357

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Human Trafficking Prevention Act
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Passed
Latest Action · January 27, 2015
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
Congress
114th (2015–2017)
Introduced
January 14, 2015
Cosponsors (14)
6D 8R
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(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.) Human Trafficking Prevention Act Amends the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 to require training for federal government personnel related to trafficking in persons to include at a minimum: a distance learning course on trafficking-in-persons issues and the Department of State's obligations under the Act, targeted for embassy reporting officers, regional bureaus' trafficking-in-persons coordinators, and their superiors; specific trafficking-in-persons briefings for all ambassadors and deputy chiefs of mission before they depart for their posts; and at least annual reminders to all such personnel and other federal personnel at each diplomatic or consular post of the Department of State located outside the United States of key problems, threats, methods, and warning signs of trafficking in persons specific to the country or jurisdiction in which each such post is located, and appropriate procedures to report information acquired about possible trafficking cases.

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