Labor Department must train workers to spot human trafficking.
H.R. 4307 — Enhancing Detection of Human Trafficking Act · Filed by Tim Walberg (R-MI) · 3 cosponsors · Introduced Jul 10, 2025 · Signed
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What it does
The bill tells the Department of Labor to train its workers. Workers must recognize signs of human trafficking. Training must finish within 180 days. It can be in person or online. Training covers how to spot trafficking and protect victims. The Secretary must report to Congress each year. Reports show how many workers finished training. Reports also show how many trafficking cases went to the Department of Justice.
Who it affects
Department of Labor workers will take the training. Wage and Hour Division inspectors check on workplaces. They will learn to spot trafficking. The training may help find trafficked people and get them help.
One thing to notice
Wage inspectors now have a new job: spotting human trafficking. The bill creates yearly reports so Congress can track cases.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
3 cosponsors: 2 Democrats, 1 Republicans.
- Jul 10, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Jul 10, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Education and Workforce · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce”
- Jan 8, 2026 — Markup held in committee · Congress.gov: “Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held”
- Jan 8, 2026 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 36 - 0”
- Mar 3, 2026 — Passed the House · Congress.gov: “On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H2363)”
- Mar 3, 2026 — Floor vote scheduled · Congress.gov: “Mr. Walberg moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended”
- Sep 30, 2026 — Passed both chambers · Congress.gov: “Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent”
- Oct 15, 2026 — Sent to president · Congress.gov: “Presented to President”
- Oct 20, 2026 — Signed into law · Congress.gov: “Signed by President”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 1 reports from Mar 2026 to Mar 2026.
Those reports show $19,750,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 253 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 0% of bills with any report.
Tim Walberg, who sponsored the bill, received $886,648 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Chamber of Commerce of the U.S.A. — $19,750,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- human trafficking — forcing people to work against their will, often through threats or lies.
- Wage and Hour Division — the part of the Labor Department that checks if companies pay workers fairly.
- Department of Justice — the federal agency that handles criminal cases and law enforcement.
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
- sponsored — To sponsor a bill is to introduce it in Congress and put your name on it.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (3,582 characters) on Jul 6, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 16,938 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Mar 2026 to Mar 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 14, 2026 · page rendered 2026-11-05.
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