A bill to amend title 18 of the United States Code for the purpose of prohibiting the sale of children in interstate or foreign commerce.

Summary

Prescribes the knowing solicitation, provision, or receipt of anything of monetary value, or the promise of anything of monetary value, for: (1) seeking to place, placing, or arranging to place any child for permanent care or adoption; or (2) coercing any individual to place any child for adoption to provide any child with permanent care, or to adopt any child under circumstances which result in the transportation of such child or individual in interstate or foreign commerce. Exempts from such prohibition: (1) transactions in which the person soliciting, providing, or receiving monetary value for seeking to place or placing a child is such child's parent or guardian or is a person seeking to adopt or to provide permanent care to such child and the monetary value is not in excess of the amount which is customarily charged for similar services; and (2) the provision of legal services which are in connection with the placement of the child in accordance with applicable State laws and for which monetary value is not received in excess of the amount which is customarily received for similar services.

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 29 April 1977

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