A bill to increase penalties for trafficking with respect to peonage, slavery, involuntary servitude, or forced labor.

Amends the federal criminal code to: (1) increase the penalties for trafficking with respect to peonage, slavery, involuntary servitude, or forced labor; and (2) allow the death penalty for trafficking which involves kidnaping, or aggravated sexual assault on, more than one person.

[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2437 Introduced in Senate (IS)]








109th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2437

To increase penalties for trafficking with respect to peonage, slavery, 
                involuntary servitude, or forced labor.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

               March 16 (legislative day, March 15), 2006

 Mr. Stevens (for himself, Mrs. Hutchison, Mrs. Dole, Mr. Talent, Mrs. 
 Feinstein, Ms. Mikulski, and Mr. Byrd) introduced the following bill; 
  which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To increase penalties for trafficking with respect to peonage, slavery, 
                involuntary servitude, or forced labor.

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

SECTION 1. AMENDMENT TO TITLE 18.

    The text of section 1590 of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended to read as follows: ``Whoever knowingly recruits, harbors, 
transports, provides, or obtains by any means, any person for labor or 
services in violation of this chapter shall be fined under this title 
and imprisoned for any term of years or life. If death results from the 
violation of this section, or if the violation includes kidnaping or an 
attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or the attempt to commit 
aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, the defendant shall be 
fined under this title and imprisoned for any term of years or life. If 
such violation involves kidnaping more than 1 person, or involves 
aggravated sexual assault on more than 1 person, the defendant shall be 
subject to the death penalty.''.
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