US Congress House Bill 4259 (Prior Session Legislation)

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May 7 2012 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, and Human Rights.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, and Human Rights Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

End Trafficking in Government Contracting Act of 2012 - Amends the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 to expand the authority of a federal agency to terminate a grant, contract, or cooperative agreement involving grantees or contractors who engage in severe forms of trafficking in persons to include grantees or contractors who: (1) engage in acts that directly support or advance trafficking in persons, (2) destroy an employee's immigration documents or fail to repatriate such employee upon the end of employment, (3) solicit persons for employment under false pretenses, (4) charge recruited employees exorbitant placement fees, or (5) provide inhumane living conditions. Requires the Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking to monitor all known cases and activities involving trafficking in persons that are reported to certain officials of the Department of Defense (DOD). Prohibits the head of an executive agency from entering into a grant, contract, or cooperative agreement valued at $1 million or more if performance will predominantly be conducted overseas unless a representative of the recipient of such grant, contract, or cooperative agreement certifies that the recipient has implemented a plan and procedures to prevent trafficking in persons. Requires a contracting or grant officer of an executive agency who receives credible evidence that a recipient of a grant, contract, or cooperative agreement has engaged in trafficking in persons or other prohibited activities to request the agency's Inspector General to investigate allegations of trafficking and to take remedial actions, including the suspension of payments under the grant, contract, or cooperative agreement. Amends the federal criminal code to impose a fine and/or prison term of up to five years on any individual who knowingly and with intent to defraud recruits, solicits, or hires a person outside the United States, or attempts to do so, to work on on a government contract performed on government facilities outside the United States by means of materially false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises regarding such employment.

End Trafficking in Government Contracting Act of 2012

Rep Lankford, James	Rep Bachmann, Michele	Rep Bass, Karen	Rep Capuano, Michael E.
Rep Clarke, Hansen	Rep Cole, Tom	Rep Connolly, Gerald E. "Gerry"	Rep Cummings, Elijah E.
Rep Fortenberry, Jeff	Rep Hanna, Richard L.	Rep Issa, Darrell E.	Rep Kelly, Mike
Rep Maloney, Carolyn B.	Rep Markey, Edward J.	Rep Moran, James P.	Rep Poe, Ted
Rep Roskam, Peter J.	Rep Rothman, Steven R.	Rep Schock, Aaron	Rep Smith, Christopher H.
Rep Speier, Jackie	Rep Stark, Fortney Pete	Rep Van Hollen, Chris	Rep Wolf, Frank R.
Rep Womack, Steve

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-05-07	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, and Human Rights.
2012-04-09	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Commercial and Administrative Law.
2012-04-09	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
2012-03-26	House	Referred to House Judiciary
2012-03-26	House	Referred to House Foreign Affairs
2012-03-26	House	Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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.

SB2234 (Related) 2012-12-19 - Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 571.
SB2139 (Related) 2012-04-17 - Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Contracting Oversight. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 112-659.
SB3286 (Related) 2012-06-12 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

Type	Source
Summary	http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:HN04259:@@@L&summ2=m&
Text	http://gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112hr4259ih/pdf/BILLS-112hr4259ih.pdf