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This bill establishes a national human trafficking database at the Office for Victims of Crime within the Department of Justice, designed to comprehensively track and report human trafficking data across the United States. The bill provides grants to state agencies to collect and report detailed data about human trafficking, including the number of prosecutions, arrests, and convictions in each county, anonymized hotline data, information about anti-human trafficking organizations, and demographic details of trafficking cases. Participating state agencies will be required to report data annually, beginning in fiscal year 2025, which will then be compiled into a public online database that ranks counties by human trafficking rates and provides aggregated information about trafficking incidents and services. The bill emphasizes protecting survivors' confidentiality and explicitly prohibits the Department of Justice from using the collected data to make funding decisions or accessing personally identifying information about trafficking survivors. To support this initiative, the bill authorizes $50 million annually from 2025 to 2028 for data collection and an additional $1 million for database maintenance and reporting. Critically, the legislation aims to create a standardized, comprehensive approach to understanding and addressing human trafficking by providing a centralized, transparent data repository.

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https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/863/all-info