To direct the Attorney General to acquire data, for each calendar year, about sexual offenses, including rape, that occur aboard any mode of transportation over which the Federal Government exercises jurisdiction.

This bill directs the Department of Justice to acquire data about sexual offenses that occur aboard any mode of transportation over which the federal government exercises jurisdiction.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5256 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5256

To direct the Attorney General to acquire data, for each calendar year, 
 about sexual offenses, including rape, that occur aboard any mode of 
      transportation over which the Federal Government exercises 
                             jurisdiction.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 13, 2018

  Mr. Crawford (for himself and Ms. Norton) introduced the following 
       bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To direct the Attorney General to acquire data, for each calendar year, 
 about sexual offenses, including rape, that occur aboard any mode of 
      transportation over which the Federal Government exercises 
                             jurisdiction.

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

SECTION 1. STATISTICS RELATING TO SEXUAL OFFENSES THAT OCCUR ABOARD ANY 
              MODE OF TRANSPORTATION OVER WHICH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 
              EXERCISES JURISDICTION.

    Under the authority of section 534 of title 28, United States Code, 
the Attorney General shall acquire data, for each calendar year, about 
sexual offenses, including rape, that occur aboard any mode of 
transportation over which the Federal Government exercises jurisdiction 
(including aircraft, any vessel of the United States or which travels 
in interstate or foreign commerce or within the admiralty and maritime 
jurisdiction of the United States, any vehicle used or designed for 
flight or navigation in space, and any vehicle which travels via any 
facility of interstate or foreign commerce), disaggregated by--
            (1) the mode of transportation aboard which the offense was 
        committed; and
            (2) the location of the commission of the offense.
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