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

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.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5027 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5027

 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.


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                    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

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                                 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.

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

SEC. 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).''.
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