[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 505 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 505

 To ensure due process protections of individuals in the United States 
 against unlawful detention based solely on a protected characteristic.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           February 14, 2019

  Ms. Duckworth (for herself, Mr. Blumenthal, Mr. Booker, Mr. Durbin, 
Mrs. Feinstein, Ms. Harris, Ms. Hirono, Ms. Klobuchar, Mr. Markey, Mrs. 
 Murray, Ms. Rosen, Mr. Schatz, Ms. Smith, and Ms. Warren) introduced 
the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee 
                            on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To ensure due process protections of individuals in the United States 
 against unlawful detention based solely on a protected characteristic.

    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 ``Korematsu-Takai Civil Liberties 
Protection Act of 2019''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION AGAINST UNLAWFUL DETENTION.

    Section 4001 of title 18, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) by redesignating subsection (b) as subsection (c); and
            (2) by inserting after subsection (a) the following:
    ``(b) Prohibition on Detention Based on Protected 
Characteristics.--
            ``(1) In general.--No individual may be imprisoned or 
        otherwise detained based solely on an actual or perceived 
        protected characteristic of the individual.
            ``(2) Definition.--In this subsection, the term `protected 
        characteristic' includes each of the following:
                    ``(A) Race.
                    ``(B) Ethnicity.
                    ``(C) National origin.
                    ``(D) Religion.
                    ``(E) Sex.
                    ``(F) Gender identity.
                    ``(G) Sexual orientation.
                    ``(H) Disability.
                    ``(I) Any additional characteristic that the 
                Attorney General determines to be a protected 
                characteristic.
            ``(3) Rule of construction.--Nothing in this subsection 
        shall be construed to allow the Attorney General to remove a 
        characteristic described in subparagraphs (A) through (H) of 
        paragraph (2) from the definition of the term `protected 
        characteristic' under this subsection.''.
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