End Banking for Human Traffickers Act of 2019
This bill establishes requirements related to the use of financial transactions in human trafficking. The bill adds 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 specifically targeting severe forms of human trafficking.
The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council must review procedures to improve the capability of specified programs to target financial transactions relating to severe forms of human trafficking.
The Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence must coordinate with other specified agencies to combat the illicit financing relating to severe forms of human trafficking.
The bill provides additional criteria to be considered by the State Department to indicate a country's serious and sustained efforts to eliminate human trafficking. Specifically, the bill adds criteria regarding whether a country has taken or is taking steps to implement a framework for preventing financial transactions involving severe forms of human trafficking.
| Action Date | Type | Text | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-03-07 | Committee | Committee Agreed to Seek Consideration Under Suspension of the Rules,. | House committee actions |
| 2019-03-07 | Committee | Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote. | House committee actions |
| 2019-03-07 | Committee | Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held. | House committee actions |
| 2019-01-08 | IntroReferral | Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. | House floor actions |
| 2019-01-08 | IntroReferral | Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. | House floor actions |
| 2019-01-08 | IntroReferral | Introduced in House | Library of Congress |