Protecting Rights of Those Exploited by Coercive Trafficking Act of 2018'

Bill: 115-hr-5027
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Ratcliffe, John [R-TX-4]
Introduced: 2018-02-14
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Crimes against children

Drug, alcohol, tobacco use

Human trafficking

Labor standards

Sex offenses
Latest action: action_date: 2018-03-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.

Summaries:
action_date: 2018-02-14
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Protecting Rights Of Those Exploited by Coercive Trafficking Act of 2018</b></p> <p>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.</p>

tv_txt: I 115th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 5027 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES February 14, 2018 Mr. Ratcliffe (for himself and Miss Rice of New York ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL To amend chapter 77 of title 18, United States Code, to clarify that using drugs or illegal substances to cause a person to engage in a commercial sex act constitutes coercion and using drugs or illegal substances to provide or obtain the labor or services of a person constitutes forced labor.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Protecting Rights of Those Exploited by Coercive Trafficking Act of 2018 . 2. Use of drugs or illegal substances for trafficking in persons (a) Forced labor Section 1589(a) of title 18, United States Code, is amended— (1) in paragraph (3), by striking or at the end; (2) in paragraph (4), by striking the comma at the end and inserting ; or ; and (3) by inserting after paragraph (4) the following: (5) by means of supplying, furnishing, or providing any drug or illegal substance to a person in order to exploit the addiction of the person or cause the person to become addicted to the drug or illegal substance, . (b) Sex trafficking Section 1591(e)(2) of title 18, United States Code, is amended— (1) in subparagraph (B), by striking or at the end; (2) in subparagraph (C), by striking the period at the end and inserting ; or ; and (3) by adding at the end the following: (D) supplying, furnishing, or providing any drug or illegal substance to a person in order to exploit the addiction of the person or cause the person to become addicted to the drug or illegal substance (unless the defendant engaged in the conduct as a direct result of being a victim of an offense under this chapter). .