S 2429
115th Congress
Senate
Crime and Law Enforcement
Crimes against children
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Human trafficking
Labor standards
Sex offenses
Protecting Rights Of Those Exploited by Coercive Trafficking Act of 2018
Introduced: February 14, 2018
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Feb 14, 2018
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Feb 14, 2018
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Protecting Rights Of Those Exploited by Coercive Trafficking Act of 2018
This bill amends the federal criminal code to specify that supplying, furnishing, or providing a drug or substance to a person, including to exploit or create an addiction, constitutes: (1) coercion, for purposes of a child sex trafficking offense; and (2) coercive means, for purposes of a forced labor offense.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Committees of jurisdiction
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