3.0.0 6148 2023-01-11T13:21:35Z 2023-01-11T13:21:35Z House H HR 2010-09-16 111 hsfa00 Foreign Affairs Committee House Standing Referred to 2010-09-16T14:07:25Z 2010-09-16 Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hsfa00 Foreign Affairs Committee 2010-09-16 Introduced in House IntroReferral Intro-H 9 Library of Congress 2010-09-16 Introduced in House IntroReferral 1000 9 Library of Congress R000435 Rep. Ros-Lehtinen, Ileana [R-FL-18] ILEANA ROS-LEHTINEN R FL 18 N International Affairs Child safety and welfare Congressional oversight Crime victims Crimes against children Foreign aid and international relief Human rights International law and treaties Medical ethics Organ and tissue donation and transplantation Prescription drugs Smuggling and trafficking Trade restrictions Travel and tourism Violent crime Visas and passports War and emergency powers World health International Affairs 00 2010-09-16 Introduced in House 2010-11-17T14:16:12Z Trafficking in Organs Victims Protection Act - States that it shall be U.S. policy to: (1) end the offensive practice of exploiting the poor and vulnerable for the purpose of harvesting and trafficking their organs; and (2) combat criminal trade in human organs.

Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to: (1) include in the annual country reports on human rights practices information on post-operative and rehabilitation care for victims of trafficking in human organs; and (2) make assistance available for the elimination of trafficking in human organs.

Amends the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 to include in the definition of "coercion" exploitation of a person through the promise of payments or benefits in order to compel or entice the person to consent to the removal of one or more of the person's organs for a transplant operation in a manner contrary to certain World Health Organization (WHO) standards.

Defines: (1) "trafficking in human organs" as the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring, or receipt of a person by coercion or abduction for the purpose of removing one or more of the person's organs, and the illicit transportation and transplantation of those organs in one or more other persons for profit or any other purpose; and (2) "organ" as the human (including fetal) kidney, liver, heart, lung, pancreas, bone marrow, cornea, eye, bone, and skin or any subpart thereof, and any other human organ or subpart (including that derived from a fetus) specified by the President.

Includes in the definition of "severe forms of trafficking in persons" trafficking in human organs.

Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to prohibit the issuance of a passport to, and revoke a previously issued passport from, a person convicted of trafficking in human organs who used a passport or otherwise crossed an international border in committing such offense.

Authorizes the President to exercise specified authorities under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act in connection with: (1) the export of anti-rejection human organ transplant drugs to countries identified as the largest source of illegally trafficked human organs or the largest recipients of illegally trafficked human organs; or (2) the travel abroad by U.S. citizens to participate in any activity relating to human organ trafficking.

]]> Trafficking in Organs Victims Protection Act Display Title Trafficking in Organs Victims Protection Act Official Title as Introduced To combat trafficking in human organs, and for other purposes. Introduced in House IH Short Titles as Introduced Trafficking in Organs Victims Protection Act Introduced in House 2010-09-16T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-111hr6148ih/xml/BILLS-111hr6148ih.xml 2010-09-16 Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.