Title: KIDS Act
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
Keeping Infants Domestically Safe Act of 2019 or the KIDS Act
This bill expands the scope of the criminal conduct related to buying and selling minors (i.e., individuals under 18 years of age).
Current law prohibits buying or selling a minor for the purpose of producing child pornography.
This bill prohibits buying or selling a minor in exchange for money or any other consideration for any purpose other than a legal adoption.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1164 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1164

    To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit black market 
             adoption of children, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 11, 2019

Mrs. Hyde-Smith (for herself, Mrs. Capito, Mrs. Blackburn, Mr. Wicker, 
and Mr. Daines) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit black market 
             adoption of children, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Keeping Infants Domestically Safe 
Act of 2019'' or the ``KIDS Act''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENT.

    Section 2251A of title 18, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a), in the undesignated matter following 
        paragraph (2)(B), by striking ``subsection (c)'' and inserting 
        ``subsection (d)'';
            (2) in subsection (b), in the undesignated matter following 
        paragraph (2)(B), by striking ``subsection (c)'' and inserting 
        ``subsection (d)'';
            (3) by redesignating subsection (c) as subsection (d);
            (4) by inserting after subsection (b) the following:
    ``(c)(1) It shall be unlawful for a parent, legal guardian, or 
other person having custody or control of a minor to sell, trade, or 
offer to sell or trade, the minor in exchange for money or other 
consideration, if any of the circumstances described in subsection (d) 
exist.
    ``(2) It shall be unlawful for a person to purchase or otherwise 
obtain custody or control, or offer to purchase or otherwise obtain 
custody or control, of a minor in exchange for money or other 
consideration, if any of the circumstances described in subsection (d) 
exist.
    ``(3) Any person who violates paragraph (1) or (2) shall be fined 
under this title, imprisoned for not less than 30 years or for life, or 
both.
    ``(4)(A) This subsection shall not be construed to apply to any 
person adopting a minor through a legal adoption process.
    ``(B) In this paragraph, the term `legal adoption process'--
            ``(i) means an adoption process conducted in accordance 
        with State law; and
            ``(ii) includes a surrogacy or gestational carrier 
        agreement conducted in accordance with State law.''; and
            (5) in subsection (d), as so redesignated, in the matter 
        preceding paragraph (1), by striking ``subsections (a) and 
        (b)'' and inserting ``subsections (a), (b), and (c)''.
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