34 U.S.C. § 20701 — Prevention of domestic trafficking in persons

(a) Program to reduce trafficking in persons and demand for commercial sex acts in the United States.
(1) Comprehensive research and statistical review. The Attorney General must use data from state and local authorities, plus research data, to do a biennial (every two years) comprehensive study of severe forms of trafficking in persons^*, and a separate biennial study of sex trafficking^* and unlawful commercial sex acts, then report the findings to Congress in two separate reports. The trafficking study must cover the estimated number and characteristics of people engaged in trafficking, and the number of investigations, arrests, prosecutions, and incarcerations by states. The sex-trafficking study must cover the estimated number and characteristics of people engaged in sex trafficking and commercial sex acts (including buyers), the estimated dollar value of the commercial sex economy including average income from it, the number of investigations, arrests, prosecutions, and incarcerations (including of buyers), and how enforcement of these laws differs across the country.
(2) Trafficking conference. The Attorney General, working with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, must hold a conference on trafficking and commercial sex acts each year from 2006 through 2008, then every two years after. At each conference, the Attorney General (or a designee) must announce and evaluate the research findings, and share best practices for enforcing anti-trafficking laws, training law enforcement, and training officers to work with social services and build trust with trafficking survivors. Each conference must include federal, state, and local officials (including law enforcement and prosecutors), trafficking survivors, medical personnel, social service and nonprofit staff, and academic experts. The Attorney General and the Secretary of Health and Human Services must publish reports on the conference's findings and best practices on their agencies' websites.

(b) Omitted.

(c) Authorization of appropriations. Congress authorized $1,500,000 per year for fiscal years 2008 through 2011 for the trafficking study, and another $1,500,000 per year for those same years for the sex-trafficking study; and $250,000 per year for fiscal years 2014 through 2021 for the conference program.