1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Reduce Human Trafficking through Transportation Act . 2. Department of Transportation human trafficking prevention grants (a) In general The Secretary of Transportation (referred to in this section as the Secretary ) shall establish within the Office of the Secretary a grant program to provide grants to transit operators and airports to address human trafficking awareness, education, and prevention efforts. (b) Transit operator grants (1) In general Of the amounts made available for each fiscal year under subsection (d), the Secretary shall set aside $10,000,000 to provide grants to entities described in paragraph (2)(A) to address human trafficking awareness, education, and prevention efforts, including by— (A) coordinating human trafficking prevention efforts across multimodal transportation operations within a community; and (B) accomplishing the best practices and recommendations provided by the Department of Transportation Advisory Committee on Human Trafficking. (2) Distribution (A) In general The Secretary shall distribute amounts set aside under paragraph (1) to— (i) the 75 transit operators in the United States with the highest annual ridership, based on the most recent data available; and (ii) as the Secretary determines to be appropriate, a transit operator not described in clause (i) that serves an area with a high prevalence of human trafficking, on application of the transit operator. (B) Priority; considerations In distributing the amounts set aside under paragraph (1), the Secretary shall— (i) give priority in grant amounts to entities referred to in subparagraph (A) that serve regions with a higher prevalence of human trafficking