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

Proscribes with specified exceptions, 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 or 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.

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• Introduced in Senate

  summary · EN · 9 May 1977

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