[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3913 Introduced in House (IH)]






108th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3913

    To provide the penalty of death for kingpins of child sex slave 
                        trafficking enterprises.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 8, 2004

    Mr. Emanuel (for himself, Mr. Burton of Indiana, Mr. Hoyer, Mr. 
Andrews, Mr. Cardoza, Mr. Chandler, Mr. Miller of Florida, Mr. English, 
 Ms. McCarthy of Missouri, Mr. Sandlin, and Mr. Frost) introduced the 
  following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
    To provide the penalty of death for kingpins of child sex slave 
                        trafficking enterprises.

    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 ``Juvenile Protection From Sex Slavery 
Trafficking Act of 2004''.

SEC. 2. PENALTY OF DEATH FOR KINGPINS OF CHILD SEX SLAVE TRAFFICKING 
              ENTERPRISES.

    Section 1591 of title 18, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) by redesignating subsection (c) as subsection (d);
            (2) by inserting after subsection (b) the following:
    ``(c) Whoever acts as a child sex trafficking kingpin shall be 
subject to the penalty of death, or imprisoned for life if that penalty 
is not imposed. ''; and
            (3) in subsection (d) (as so redesignated by paragraph 
        (1)), by adding at the end the following:
            ``(4) The term `child sex trafficking kingpin' means a 
        person who violates subsection (a), if the violation is a part 
        of a continuing series of violations of that subsection--
                    ``(A) which are undertaken by that person in 
                concert with 5 or more other persons with respect to 
                whom that person occupies a position of organizer, a 
                supervisory position, or any other position of 
                management; and
                    ``(B) from which that person obtains substantial 
                income or resources.''.
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