Runaway and Homeless Youth and Trafficking Prevention Act

Fair and Inclusive Housing Rights Act Department of Housing and Urban Development Guidelines on Housing Discrimination Housing Opportunities Made Equal Act (H.R. 2479; S. 1242) Runaway and Homeless Youth Inclusion Act (H.R. 2955) Runaway and Homeless Youth Act Reauthorization Runaway and Homeless Youth and Trafficking Prevention Act (S. 2646) Non-Discrimination Regulations for Runaway and Homeless Youth Act programs under the Family and Youth Services Bureau and the Administration for Children and Families Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA) Program Appropriations

Client expense: $290,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: Administration for Children & Families (ACF), Administration on Aging, Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), Commerce, Dept of (DOC), Defense, Dept of (DOD), Education, Dept of, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Food & Drug Administration (FDA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Housing & Urban Development, Dept of (HUD), Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Justice, Dept of (DOJ), Natl Institutes of Health (NIH), Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Office on Violence Against Women, SENATE, Social Security Administration (SSA), State, Dept of (DOS), Treasury, Dept of, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA), White House Office

Every Child Deserves a Family Act (H.R. 2028; S. 1069) Reconnecting Youth to Prevent Homelessness Act Runaway and Homeless Youth Act Reauthorization FAMILY Act (H.R. 3712; S. 1810) Runaway and Homeless Youth Inclusion Act (H.R. 2955) Runaway and Homeless Youth and Trafficking Prevention Act (S. 2646) Non-Discrimination Regulations for Runaway and Homeless Youth Act programs under the Family and Youth Services Bureau and the Administration for Children and Families Child Welfare Provider Inclusion Act (H.R. 5285; S. 2706)

Client expense: $290,000 · Firm income: Not reported

contraception and family planning; comprehensive sexuality education; teen pregnancy prevention; abortion; domestic HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ youth, funding for Labor-Health and Human Services-Education; health care access H.R. 725, Real Education for Healthy Youth Act (comprehensive sexuality education) S. 372, Real Education for Healthy Youth Act (comprehensive sexuality education) H.R. 1199, Safe Schools Improvement Act (anti-bullying) S. 403, Safe Schools Improvement Act (anti-bullying) H.R. 1652, Student Non-Discrimination Act (sexual orientation and/or gender identity) S. 1088, Student Non-Discrimination Act (sexual orientation and/or gender identity) H.R. 3471, Women's Health Protection Act S. 2646, Runaway and Homeless Youth and Trafficking Prevention Act H.R.2955, Runaway and Hompless Youth Inclusion Act H.R.4240, HEAL Immigrant Women and Families Act of 2014 FY15 Funding for Department of Health and Human Services (Division of Adolescent School Health, Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiative, Title X, Planned Parenthood) Communicated with federal agencies listed on issues related to contraception and family planning, comprehensive sexuality edcuation, teen pregnancy prevention, abortion, domestic HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ youth, school health, and youth homelessness.

Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: Not reported

Contacts in support of No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act (H.R. 7, S. 946), to codify government-wide policy against funding abortion. Contacts in support of Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act (H.R. 3279, S. 1848), legislation to correct concealment practices pertaining to abortion coverage in exchange-participating health plans. (continued)Contacts in support of the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, to protect pain-capable unborn children beginning at 20 weeks fetal age (S. 1670). Contacts in support of Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act (PRENDA), to ban sex-selection abortions (S. 138, HR 447). Contacts in support of Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act (CIANA)(S. 369, HR 732), to require an abortionist to notify a parent before performing an abortion on a minor from a different state, with certain exceptions. Contacts in support of the Health Care Conscience Rights Act (HR 940, S. 1204), to prevent the imposition of regulatory mandates that violate the religious or moral convictions of those who purchase or provide health insurance, to prevent any level of government from discriminating against health care providers who decline to participate in abortions, and to empower victims to seek relief in court for violations of the federal conscience laws. Contacts in opposition to the "Protect Women's Health from Corporate Interference Act" (S. 2578/H.R. 5051), legislation which would further empower the Obama Administration to mandate that certain insurance plans cover abortion pills such as RU-486, surgical abortion (including late abortions), assisted suicide, or anything else the Administration chooses to classify as preventive services, overriding all existing federal laws that protect religious freedom and conscience rights; the Senate refused to invoke cloture to proceed to this legislation on July 16, 2014. Contacts in support of possible inclusion of abortion non-discrimination language in FY 2015 omibus appropriations legislation (not included), H.R. 83 (became Public Law 113-235). Contacts in support of carrying over abortion-related limitation provisions in FY 2015 appropriations bills, including Hyde Amendment in HHS appropriations bill, and other abortion limitation provisions in Commerce-Justice-Science (H.R. 4660/S. 2437), Financial Services (H.R. 5016), and State-Foreign Operations (H.R. 5013/S. 2499) appropriations bills; no position on State-Foreign Operations provision conforming language related to the Peace Corps to comparable HHS language. Contacts in support of continuation of abortion-related limitation provisions in omnibus appropriations measure, H.R. 83 (became Public Law 113-235). Contacts in support of curtailing U.S. funding of UNFPA. Contacts in opposition to language proposed by Sen. Shaheen to State/Foreign Operations appropriations bill (S. 2499) to preclude a president from re-applying pro-life conditions to private organizations that receive foreign aid grants (e.g., "Mexico City Policy"), as adopted in Senate Appropriations Committee June 19, 2014. Contacts in support of the Homeland Security Respect for Life Act (H.R. 493), to prevent federal funding of abortion under programs within the Department of Homeland Security, with certain exceptions, and comparable limitation language ("Aderholt-Carter Amendment") to FY 2015 Homeland Security appropriations bill (H.R. 4903). Contacts in support of S. 154/HR 346, to prevent coverage of abortion, with certain exceptions, in "multi-state" (national) health plans, created by PL 111-148, to be administered by the Office of Personnel Management, and comparable language ("Harris-Nunnelee Amendment"), added to FY 2015 Financial Services appropriations bill (H.R. 5016) at House Appropriation Committee markup, June 25, 2014, 29-21. H.R. 5016 passed the House July 16, 2014, without challenge to this provision. Contacts in support of the Title X Abortion Provider Prohibition Act (HR 217/S. 135). (continued)Contacts in support of H.R. 4698, the Every Child is a Blessing Act (legislation to curb use of wrongful birth and wrongful life causes of action), introduced by Rep. Palazzo on May 21, 2014. Consultations regarding anti-trafficking legislation, H.R. 3530; no position taken on substitute as reported by the House Judiciary Committee on May 15, 2014, and approved by the House on May 20, 2014. Contacts in support of adding language to parallel Senate proposals, to prevent funding of abortion, including potential amendments to S. 2646 or S. 2599. Contacts in opposition to "Women's Health Protection Act" (H.R. 3471, S. 1696), a proposed federal statute to invalidate virtually all state and federal regulations pertaining to abortion. Contacts explaining nonsupport for H.R. 1091/S. 583 and H.R. 2764, based on lack of clarity and erroneous legal premises.

Conducted advocacy on behalf of the Alliance to End Slavery and Trafficking and Humanity United to end modern day slavery and human trafficking through advocacy on the Runaway Homeless Youth Trafficking Prevention Act in the Senate (S.2646), the Stop Exploitation Through Trafficking Act of 2013 (S.1733) and the Survivor Advisory Council (S.121/HR 5607)

Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE

Fair and Inclusive Housing Rights Act; Department of Housing and Urban Development Guidelines on Housing Discrimination; Housing Opportunities Made Equal Act (H.R. 2479; S.1242); Runaway and Homeless Youth Inclusion Act (H.R. 2955); Runaway and Homeless Youth Act Reauthorization; Runaway and Homeless Youth and Trafficking Prevention Act (S. 2646) - Non-Discrimination Regulations for Runaway and Homeless Youth Act programs under the Family and Youth Services bureau and the Administration for Children and Families; Housing Opportunities for Persons witn AIDS (HOPWA) Program Appropriations.

Client expense: $270,000 · Firm income: Not reported

contraception and family planning; comprehensive sexuality education, teen pregnancy prevention, abortion, domestic HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ youth, funding for Labor-Health and Human Services-Education, youth homelessness, Affordable Care Act implementationH.R. 725, Real Education for Healthy Youth Act (comprehensive sexuality education) S. 372, Real Education for Healthy Youth Act (comprehensive sexuality education) H.R. 1199, Safe Schools Improvement Act (anti-bullying) S. 403, Safe Schools Improvement Act (anti-bullying) H.R. 1652, Student Non-Discrimination Act (sexual orientation and/or gender identity) S. 1088, Student Non-Discrimination Act (sexual orientation and/or gender identity) H.R. 3471, Women's Health Protection Act S. 2646, Runaway and Homeless Youth and Trafficking Prevention Act H.R.2955, Runaway and Hompless Youth Inclusion Act H.R.4240, HEAL Immigrant Women and Families Act of 2014 FY15 Funding for Department of Health and Human Services (Division of Adolescent School Health, Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiative, Title X, Planned Parenthood) Communicated with federal agencies listed on issues related to contraception and family planning, comprehensive sexuality edcuation, teen pregnancy prevention, abortion, domestic HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ youth, school health, and youth homelessness.

Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: Not reported

Conducted advocacy on behalf of the Alliance to End Slavery and Trafficking and Humanity United to end modern day slavery and human trafficking through advocacy on the The Fraudulent Overseas Recruitment and Trafficking Elimination Act of 2013 (FORTE) (H.R. 3344), the Strengthening the "Child Welfare Response to Human Trafficking Act of 2014" (S.1823/HR 5081/HR4636), the "Business Supply Chain Transparency on Trafficking and Slavery Act of 2014"(HR4842)the "Voices of Human Trafficking Act of 2014" (HR 5607) the Runaway and Homeless Youth and Trafficking Prevention Act (S.2646),the Senate Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2014 (S.2648) and the House Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act (HR5230).

Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $6,525

Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), SENATE