Victim of trafficking takes its meaning from the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000
To provide for the vacating of certain convictions and expungement of certain arrests of victims of human trafficking, section 2, Sec. 2.
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Victim of trafficking takes its meaning from the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000
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What the document says
“the term `victim of trafficking' has the meaning given that term in section 103 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7102); and”
The term that the whole section turns on is not defined here. It is given the meaning it carries in section 103 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, codified at 22 U.S.C. 7102. That statute is not indexed on this site, so nothing is recorded here about what the definition contains. Section 7 of this Act amends two paragraph cross references within that same section 103.
What the document actually says
“the term `victim of trafficking' has the meaning given that term in section 103 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7102); and”
That sentence, in plain words
The word victim has the same meaning as in a law from the year 2000.
What this is about
That older law is about people who are forced to work or have sex. The word here means the same thing. This law does not spell it out again.
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Trafficking Survivors Relief Act, Public Law 119-73, sec. 2, 139 Stat. 2003 (2026). https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ73/html/PLAW-119publ73.htm
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“Victim of trafficking takes its meaning from the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000,” Trafficking Survivors Relief Act, section 2, Sec. 2. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/trafficking-survivors-relief-act/proposal/sec02-victim-of-trafficking-defined/ (retrieved October 10, 2026).
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