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H.R. 468: Enhancing Services for Runaway and Homeless Victims of Youth Trafficking Act of 2015

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H.R. 468: Enhancing Services for Runaway and Homeless Victims of Youth Trafficking Act of 2015

114th Congress · introduced 2015-01-22 · Families · Latest: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2015-01-22 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Heck, Joseph J. [R-NV-3] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title

Enhancing Services for Runaway and Homeless Victims of Youth Trafficking Act of 2015

Plain summary

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.) Enhancing Services for Runaway and Homeless Victims of Youth Trafficking Act of 2015 (Sec. 2) Amends the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act with respect to grants to states, localities, and private entities to carry out research, evaluation, demonstration, and service projects regarding activities designed to increase knowledge concerning, and to improve services for, runaway youth and homeless youth. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to give priority to proposed projects relating to staff training in: the behavioral and emotional effects of severe forms of trafficking in persons and sex trafficking, responding to youth who are showing effects of severe forms of trafficking in persons and sex trafficking, and agency-wide strategies for working with runaway and homeless youth who are victims of trafficking. Extends the Secretary's authority to make grants to nonprofit private agencies for the purpose of providing street-based services to runaway and homeless, and street youth, who have been subjected to, or are at risk of being subjected to, sexual abuse, prostitution, or sexual exploitation. Extends the scope of such grants also to street-based services to runaway and homeless, and street youth, who have been subjected to, or are at risk of being subjected to, severe forms of trafficking in persons and sex trafficking.

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Official text

Enhancing Services for Runaway and Homeless Victims of Youth Trafficking Act of 2015

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Passed House without amendment)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Heck, Joseph J. [R-NV-3] · 17 cosponsors

Cost estimate: No cost estimate published yet.

Cosponsors on this site

Robert C. "Bobby" Scott (D-VA), Tim Walberg (R-MI), Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ), Brett Guthrie (R-KY), Glenn Thompson (R-PA)

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong114-hr468 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong114 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong114