Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse
Chapter 78 — Trafficking Victims Protection
§ 7104e. Preventing future trafficking in the United States through receipt of complaints abroad
Statutory text
In general
The Secretary of State shall ensure that each diplomatic or consular post or other mission designates an employee to be responsible for receiving information from—
any person who was a victim of a severe form of trafficking in persons (as such term is defined in section 7102(14) 1 of this title) while present in the United States; or
any person who has information regarding a victim described in paragraph (1).
Provision of information
Any information received pursuant to subsection (a) shall be transmitted to the Department of Justice, the Department of Labor, the Department of Homeland Security, and to any other relevant Federal agency for appropriate response. The Attorney General, the Secretary of Labor, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and the head of any other such relevant Federal agency shall establish a process to address any actions to be taken in response to such information.
Assistance from foreign governments
The employee designated for receiving information pursuant to subsection (a) should coordinate with foreign governments or civil society organizations in the countries of origin of victims of severe forms of trafficking in persons, with the permission of and without compromising the safety of such victims, to ensure that such victims receive any additional support available.
Footnotes
- 1 See References in Text note below.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act of 2018
Pub. L. 115–425 title I § 102 · 132 Stat. 5472
Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 7104e
(Pub. L. 115–425, title I, § 102, Jan. 8, 2019, 132 Stat. 5474.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 115–425, title I, § 102, Jan. 8, 2019, 132 Stat. 5474.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 102. PREVENTING FUTURE TRAFFICKING IN THE UNITED STATES THROUGH RECEIPT OF COMPLAINTS ABROAD. (a) In General.— The Secretary of State shall ensure that each diplomatic or consular post or other mission designates an employee to be responsible for receiving information from— (1) any person who was a victim of a severe form of trafficking in persons (as such term is defined in section 103(14) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7102(14))) while present in the United States; or (2) any person who has information regarding a victim described in paragraph (1). (b) Provision of Information.— Any information received pursuant to subsection (a) shall be transmitted to the Department of Justice, the Department of Labor, the Department of Homeland Security, and to any other relevant Federal agency for appropriate response. The Attorney General, the Secretary of Labor, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and the head of any other such relevant Federal agency shall establish a process to address any actions to be taken in response to such information. (c) Assistance From Foreign Governments.— The employee designated for receiving information pursuant to subsection (a) should coordinate with foreign governments or civil society organizations in the countries of origin of victims of severe forms of trafficking in persons, with the permission of and without compromising the safety of such victims, to ensure that such victims receive any additional support available.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
References in Text
Section 7102(14) of this title, referred to in subsec. (a)(1), was redesignated section 7102(16) of this title by Pub. L. 115–427, § 2(1), , 132 Stat. 5503.
Codification
Section was enacted as part of the Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act of 2018, and not as part of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 which comprises this chapter.