To amend the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 relating to determinations with respect to efforts of foreign countries to reduce demand for commercial sex acts under the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking.

Amends the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 to declare that, in determining whether a government has made serious and sustained efforts to reduce the demand for commercial sex acts and participation in international sex tourism by its nationals, pursuant to the minimum standards for the elimination of sex trafficking, if such government has the authority to prohibit the purchase of commercial sex acts but fails to do so, it shall be deemed a failure to make serious and sustained efforts to reduce the demand for commercial sex acts, notwithstanding other efforts the government has made to do so.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4703 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4703

  To amend the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 relating to 
 determinations with respect to efforts of foreign countries to reduce 
  demand for commercial sex acts under the minimum standards for the 
                      elimination of trafficking.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 21, 2014

 Mr. Hultgren (for himself and Mr. Smith of New Jersey) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 relating to 
 determinations with respect to efforts of foreign countries to reduce 
  demand for commercial sex acts under the minimum standards for the 
                      elimination of trafficking.

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

SECTION 1. AMENDMENT RELATING TO DETERMINATIONS WITH RESPECT TO EFFORTS 
              OF FOREIGN COUNTRIES TO REDUCE DEMAND FOR COMMERCIAL SEX 
              ACTS UNDER THE MINIMUM STANDARDS FOR THE ELIMINATION OF 
              TRAFFICKING.

    (a) In General.--Section 108 of the Trafficking Victims Protection 
Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7106) is amended by adding at the end the 
following new subsection:
    ``(c) Criteria With Respect to Commercial Sex Acts.--In 
determinations under subsection (b)(12)(A), if the government of the 
country has the authority to prohibit the purchase of commercial sex 
acts and fails to do so, such failure to prohibit the purchase of 
commercial sex acts shall be deemed to be a failure on the part of the 
government to make serious and sustained efforts to reduce the demand 
for commercial sex acts, notwithstanding other efforts made by the 
government to reduce the demand for commercial sex acts.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) takes 
effect on the date of the enactment of this Act and applies with 
respect to determinations under subsection (b)(12)(A) of section 108 of 
the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 that are made on or 
after such date of enactment.
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