CATCH Traffickers Act of 2015

Summary

Coordinated Assistance To Catch Human Traffickers Act of 2015 or the CATCH Traffickers Act of 2015 Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish and maintain a database to serve as a central location for information from law enforcement agency investigations relating to human trafficking. Requires: (1) the head of a law enforcement agency conducting such an investigation to ensure that information the Secretary determines to be appropriate is entered into the database, and (2) the Attorney General to reduce by 20% the amount of a grant under the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program received by a state or local government the law enforcement agency of which does not substantially comply with such requirement. Permits law enforcement agencies to access the database only in connection with an investigation related to human trafficking.

This text is taken from the official record. PoliticalRepo does not editorialize.

Timeline

No timeline events have been ingested for this record yet.

Votes

No vote records are attached yet.

Versions

No version snapshots stored. Document URLs remain at the source.

Documents

3 official files

• Introduced in House (text)

  Introduced in House · EN · 6 January 2015

  ViewDownloadOpen at official source

• Introduced in House (PDF)

  Introduced in House · EN · 6 January 2015

  ViewDownloadOpen at official source

• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 6 January 2015

  Open at official source

Sponsors

No sponsors or actors listed by the source.

Related records

No cross-record relationships stored yet.