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Congressman French Hill (AR-2) released the following statement after the House approved 12 bills to combat human trafficking in the United States:

“As many as 300,000 children in the United States are at risk of becoming victims of human trafficking. We must do more to combat the alarming growth of this appalling criminal enterprise, and I am pleased that the House has passed these bipartisan bills to end human trafficking, protect victims, and punish the perpetrators of these heinous crimes.”

On Monday, January 26, 2015, and Tuesday, January 27, 2015, the House passed 12 bills to combat human trafficking with overwhelming bipartisan support:

1. The Human Trafficking Prioritization Act (H.R. 514)
2. International Megan’s Law to Prevent Demand for Child Sex Trafficking (H.R. 515)
3. Human Trafficking Prevention Act (H.R. 357)
4. Enhancing Services for Runaway and Homeless Victims of Youth Trafficking Act (H.R. 468)
5. Strengthening Child Welfare Response to Trafficking Act (H.R. 469)
6. To Improve the Response to Victims of Child Sex Trafficking (H.R. 246)
7. Stop Advertising Victims of Exploitation (SAVE) Act (H.R. 285)
8. Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act (H.R. 181)
9. Stop Exploitation through Trafficking Act (H.R. 159)
10. Human Trafficking Prevention, Intervention, and Recovery Act (H.R. 350)
11. Human Trafficking Detection Act (H.R. 460)
12. Trafficking Awareness Training for Health Care Act (H.R. 398)

About Congressman French Hill

J. French Hill, 58, is the 22^nd Member of Congress to represent central Arkansas in the U.S. House of Representatives.  A ninth generation Arkansan, he was elected on November 4, 2014, and will serve on the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services for the 114^th Congress.  Prior to his Congressional service, Mr. Hill was actively engaged in the Arkansas business community for two decades as a commercial banker and investment manager, and was founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Delta Trust & Banking Corp in Little Rock.

Prior to his community banking work in Arkansas, Mr. Hill served as a senior official in the administration of President George H.W. Bush. Prior to his Executive Branch Service, from 1982-84, Mr. Hill served on the staff of then-U.S. Senator John Tower (R-TX) as well as on the staff of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing & Urban Affairs.

Mr. Hill is a magna cum laude graduate in Economics from Vanderbilt University.  He is married to the former Martha McKenzie of Dallas, Texas, and they have a daughter, Sarah Elizabeth McKenzie Hill, and a son, William Payne Hill.  The Hill family resides in Little Rock.