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 PUBLIC LAW 109–164—JAN. 10, 2006

119 STAT. 3569

persons with expertise or professional responsibilities with relevance to trafficking in persons, including, but not limited to— (i) Federal Government officials, including law enforcement and prosecutorial officials; (ii) State and local government officials, including law enforcement and prosecutorial officials; (iii) persons who have been subjected to severe forms of trafficking in persons or commercial sex acts; (iv) medical personnel; (v) social service providers and relevant nongovernmental organizations; and (vi) academic experts. (C) REPORTS.—The Attorney General and the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall prepare and post on the respective Internet Web sites of the Department of Justice and the Department of Health and Human Services reports on the findings and best practices identified and disseminated at the conference described in this paragraph. (b) TERMINATION OF CERTAIN GRANTS, CONTRACTS, AND COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS.—Section 106(g) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7104) is amended— (1) by striking ‘‘COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS.—’’ and all that follows through ‘‘The President shall’’ and inserting ‘‘COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS.—The President shall’’; (2) by striking ‘‘described in paragraph (2)’’; and (3) by striking paragraph (2). (c) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There are authorized to be appropriated— (1) $2,500,000 for each of the fiscal years 2006 and 2007 to carry out the activities described in subsection (a)(1)(B)(i) and $2,500,000 for each of the fiscal years 2006 and 2007 to carry out the activities described in subsection (a)(1)(B)(ii); and (2) $1,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2006 through 2007 to carry out the activities described in subsection (a)(2). SEC.

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ESTABLISHMENT OF GRANT PROGRAM TO DEVELOP, EXPAND, AND STRENGTHEN ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS FOR CERTAIN PERSONS SUBJECT TO TRAFFICKING.

42 USC 14044a.

(a) GRANT PROGRAM.—The Secretary of Health and Human Services may make grants to States, Indian tribes, units of local government, and nonprofit, nongovernmental victims’ service organizations to establish, develop, expand, and strengthen assistance programs for United States citizens or aliens admitted for permanent residence who are the subject of sex trafficking or severe forms of trafficking in persons that occurs, in whole or in part, within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States. (b) SELECTION FACTOR.—In selecting among applicants for grants under subsection (a), the Secretary shall give priority to applicants with experience in the delivery of services to persons who have been subjected to sexual abuse or commercial sexual exploitation and to applicants who would employ survivors of sexual abuse or commercial sexual exploitation as a part of their proposed project.

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