Empowering Law Enforcement To Fight Sex Trafficking Demand Act of 2021

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3996 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3996

  To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to 
  include an additional permissible use of amounts provided as grants 
          under the Byrne JAG program, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 17, 2021

Mrs. Hartzler (for herself, Ms. Bass, Mr. Joyce of Ohio, Mr. Grothman, 
 Mr. Cawthorn, Mr. Bacon, Ms. Salazar, Mrs. Wagner, Mr. Rice of South 
    Carolina, Mr. Stauber, Mr. Williams of Texas, Mr. Crawford, Mr. 
 McKinley, Mr. Owens, Mrs. Miller-Meeks, and Mrs. Axne) introduced the 
  following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to 
  include an additional permissible use of amounts provided as grants 
          under the Byrne JAG program, 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 ``Empowering Law Enforcement To Fight 
Sex Trafficking Demand Act of 2021''.

SEC. 2. ADDITIONAL AUTHORIZED USE OF BYRNE JAG FUNDS.

    Section 501(a)(1) of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act 
of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10152(a)(1)) is amended by adding at the end the 
following:
                    ``(I) Programs to combat human trafficking 
                (including programs to reduce the demand for trafficked 
                persons).''.
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