Sex Trafficking Demand Reduction Act

This bill changes one of the standards the U.S. government uses to judge how well foreign countries are working to end human trafficking. Under the change, the review would ask whether a country's government has made serious and sustained efforts to ban the purchase of commercial sex acts, or to adopt a policy against such purchases where a ban is outside the central government's authority. It would also ask whether the country educates buyers of commercial sex about how traffickers exploit prostituted persons, and whether it works to reduce sex tourism abroad by its own citizens. The change would apply to determinations made on or after the date the bill becomes law.

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Sponsors

• Ann Wagner Republican sponsor
• 40 cosponsors