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§645a Human Trafficking Assessment

Title 6 › Chapter 1— HOMELAND SECURITY ORGANIZATION › Subchapter XVII— ANTI-TRAFFICKING TRAINING FOR DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY PERSONNEL › § 645a

Last updated Apr 3, 2026|Official source

Summary

Within 1 year after December 21, 2018, and every year after, the Executive Associate Director of Homeland Security Investigations must send a report to four congressional committees: the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, the Senate Judiciary Committee, the House Homeland Security Committee, and the House Judiciary Committee. The report must cover HSI’s human trafficking investigations. It must give the number of confirmed investigations by type (including labor, sex, transnational, and domestic), the number of victims broken down by type (sex vs. labor) and by age (minor vs. adult), and an analysis of those numbers and other HSI data showing overall trafficking or investigation trends.

Full Legal Text

Title 6, §645a

Domestic Security — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

Not later than 1 year after December 21, 2018, and annually thereafter, the Executive Associate Director of Homeland Security Investigations shall submit to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate, and the Committee on Homeland Security and the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives a report on human trafficking investigations undertaken by Homeland Security Investigations that includes—
(1)the number of confirmed human trafficking investigations by category, including labor trafficking, sex trafficking, and transnational and domestic human trafficking;
(2)the number of victims by category, including—
(A)whether the victim is a victim of sex trafficking or a victim of labor trafficking; and
(B)whether the victim is a minor or an adult; and
(3)an analysis of the data described in paragraphs (1) and (2) and other data available to Homeland Security Investigations that indicates any general human trafficking or investigatory trends.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was enacted as part of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2017, and not as part of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 which comprises this chapter.

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Citation

6 U.S.C. § 645a

Title 6 — Domestic Security

Last Updated

Apr 3, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60