1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Stopping Trafficking, Illicit Flows, Laundering, and Exploitation Act of 2020 or the STIFLE Act of 2020 . 2. Findings The Congress finds the following: (1) Trafficking is a national-security threat and an economic drain of our resources. (2) As the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s recently released 2020 National Strategy for Combating Terrorist and Other Illicit Financing concludes, While money laundering, terrorism financing, and WMD proliferation financing differ qualitatively and quantitatively, the illicit actors engaging in these activities can exploit the same vulnerabilities and financial channels. . (3) Among those are bad actors engaged in trafficking, whether they trade in drugs, arms, cultural property, wildlife, natural resources, counterfeit goods, organs, or, even, other humans. (4) Their illegal (or dark ) markets use similar and sometimes related or overlapping methods and means to acquire, move, and profit from their crimes. (5) In a March 2017, report from Global Financial Integrity, Transnational Crime and the Developing World , the global business of transnational crime was valued at $1.6 trillion to $2.2 trillion annually, resulting in crime, violence, terrorism, instability, corruption, and lost tax revenues worldwide. 3. GAO Study (a) Study The Comptroller General of the United States shall carry out a study on— (1) the major trafficking routes used by transnational criminal organizations, terrorists, and others, and to what extent the trafficking routes for people (including children), drugs, weapons, cash, child sexual exploitation materials, or other illicit goods are similar, related, or cooperative; (2) commonly used methods to launder and move the proceeds of trafficking; (3) the types of suspicious financial activity that are associated with illicit trafficking networks, and how financial institutions identify and report such activity; (4) the nexus between the identities and finances of trafficked persons and fraud