S 4983
116th Congress
Senate
Crime and Law Enforcement
Survivors of Human Trafficking Fight Back Act of 2020
Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Dec 9, 2020
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Dec 9, 2020
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Survivors of Human Trafficking Fight Back Act of 2020
This bill establishes two new criminal offenses for knowingly distributing or possessing with the intent to distribute visual depictions of forced or coerced sex acts or the nonconsensual distribution of depictions of sex acts. An aggrieved individual may bring a civil action for violations.
Additionally, the bill requires websites that display visual depictions of sex acts to have procedures to remove those visual depictions that are in violation of the bill.
Violators are subject to criminal penalties.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Committees of jurisdiction
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