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A bill to prevent and reduce trafficking in persons.

7/28/2008--Reported to Senate amended.    (There is 1 other summary)

Trafficking in Persons Accountability Act of 2007 - Amends the federal criminal code to grant U.S. courts additional extraterritorial jurisdiction over criminal offenses involving peonage, slavery, sales of persons into involuntary servitude, forced labor, trafficking in persons, and sex trafficking of children if: (1) the alleged offender or victim of any such offense is a national or permanent resident of the United States; or (2) the alleged offender is present in the United States, irrespective of the nationality of such offender.

Prohibits U.S. prosecution of an alleged trafficking offender who is prosecuted by a foreign government whose jurisdiction is recognized by the United States, except upon the approval of the Attorney General or the Deputy Attorney General.

Latest Actions
  • 07/28/2008 - Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Leahy with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
  • 07/28/2008 - Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 903.
  • 09/20/2007 - Committee on the Judiciary. Ordered to be reported with an amendment favorably.
  • 09/20/2007 - Committee on the Judiciary. Date of scheduled consideration. SD-226. 10:00 a.m.
  • 06/27/2007 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Bill Text
File name Last Updated
S.1703 Reported in Senate07/30/2008