S. 656 · 114th Congress
Ensuring a Better Response for Victims of Child Sex Trafficking
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Ensuring a Better Response for Victims of Child Sex Trafficking
What it does: CRS summary · Introduced in Senate · Mar 4, 2015
Ensuring a Better Response for Victims of Child Sex Trafficking
This bill amends the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act to require a state plan for its child protective services system to include a certified assurance that the state has in effect and is enforcing a law requiring: (1) identification and assessment of all reports involving children known or suspected to be victims of sex trafficking; and (2) training child protective services workers about identifying, assessing, and providing comprehensive services for children who are sex trafficking victims.
Each state receiving a grant must work with the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make an annual data report that includes the number of children determined to be victims of sex trafficking.
A child is considered to be a victim of "child abuse and neglect" and of "sexual abuse" if the child is identified by a state or local agency employee as being a victim of sex trafficking or a victim of severe forms of trafficking in persons.
A state is given the option to define "child" under such Act as a person who has not attained age 24.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. All summary versions on Congress.gov
About this bill and sources
Official title: Ensuring a Better Response for Victims of Child Sex Trafficking
Latest action (Mar 4, 2015): Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement · Origin: Senate · Introduced: Mar 4, 2015
Official page on Congress.gov · Bill text (GovInfo) · Status record (XML)
No recorded floor vote found.