End Banking for Human Traffickers Act of 2017
This bill amends the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000 to add the Secretary of the Treasury as a member of the President's Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking. The task force must submit to Congress recommendations for the revision of anti-money laundering programs to specifically target money laundering related to human trafficking.
The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council must review and enhance, where necessary: (1) training and procedures to improve the ability of anti-money laundering programs to target human trafficking operations, and (2) procedures for referring potential human trafficking cases to the appropriate law enforcement agency.
The Department of Justice must report on: (1) efforts to eliminate money laundering related to human trafficking; and (2) the number of investigations, arrests, indictments, and convictions in money laundering cases related to human trafficking.
| Action Date | Type | Text | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-04-26 | IntroReferral | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. | Senate |
| 2017-04-26 | IntroReferral | Introduced in Senate | Library of Congress |