HR 159 · 114th Congress · Crime and Law Enforcement

Stop Exploitation Through Trafficking Act of 2015

Introduced 2015-01-06· Sponsored by Rep. Paulsen, Erik [R-MN-3]· House

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Latest: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.(2015-02-04)

Plain Language Summary

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Stop Exploitation Through Trafficking Act of 2015 Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to authorize the Attorney General to give preferential consideration in awarding Community Oriented Police Services grants to an application from an applicant in a state that has in effect a law that: (1) treats a minor who has engaged in, or has attempted to engage in, a commercial sex act as a victim of a severe form of trafficking in persons; (2) discourages the charging or prosecution of such individual for a prostitution or sex trafficking offense based on such conduct; and (3) encourages the diversion of such an individual to appropriate service providers, including child welfare services, victim treatment programs, child advocacy centers, rape crisis centers, or other social services. Amends the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000 (VTVPA) to require the Attorney General's annual report on federal agencies that are implementing provisions relating to the Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking to include information on the activities of such agencies in cooperation with state, tribal, and local law enforcement officials to ide…

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H.R. 159, Stop Exploitation Through Trafficking Act of 2015

Jan 27, 2015

As ordered reported by the House Committee on the Judiciary on January 21, 2015

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Cosponsors (20)

7 Democrats13 Republicans