(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)
Expresses support for: (1) law enforcement agency efforts to provide training to law enforcement agents on how to investigate and prosecute cases of sex trafficking and how to identify and rescue trafficking victims; and (2) trafficking victim services provided by the federal, state, and local governments and non-profit and faith-based organizations, including medical, legal, mental health, housing, and other social services.
Calls on Village Voice Media Holdings, LLC to act as a responsible global citizen and immediately eliminate the "adult entertainment" section of the classified advertising website Backpage.com to terminate the website's facilitation of online sex trafficking.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, Competition and the Internet.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
Introduced in Senate
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2736-2737)
Senate Committee on the Judiciary discharged by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S8318-8320)
Senate Committee on the Judiciary discharged by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S8318-8320)
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Resolution agreed to in Senate without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent.(text: CR S8319-8320)
Resolution agreed to in Senate without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (text: CR S8319-8320)
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