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Code · BILL · 113th Congress · S. 47 (Engrossed in Senate) — To reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act of 1994. · Sec. 1212

Sec. 1212. Civil remedies; clarifying definition

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Section 2255 of title 18, United States Code, is amended— in subsection (a), by striking section 2241(c) and inserting section 1589, 1590, 1591, 2241(c) ; and in subsection (b), by striking six years and inserting 10 years . Section 103 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 ( 22 U.S.C. 7102 ) is amended— by redesignating paragraphs
(1)through
(14)as paragraphs
(2)through (15), respectively; by inserting before paragraph (2), as redesignated, the following: The term abuse or threatened abuse of the legal process means the use or threatened use of a law or legal process, whether administrative, civil, or criminal, in any manner or for any purpose for which the law was not designed, in order to exert pressure on another person to cause that person to take some action or refrain from taking some action. ; in paragraph (14), as redesignated, by striking paragraph
(8)and inserting paragraph
(9); and in paragraph (15), as redesignated, by striking paragraph
(8)or
(9)and inserting paragraph
(9)or
(10). The Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7101 et eq.) is amended— in section 110(e) ( 22 U.S.C. 7107(e) )— by striking section 103(7)(A) and inserting section 103(8)(A) ; and by striking section 103(7)(B) and inserting section 103(8)(B) ; and in section 113(g)(2) ( 22 U.S.C. 7110(g)(2) ), by striking section 103(8)(A) and inserting section 103(9)(A) . Section 203(b)(2) of the North Korean Human Rights Act of 2004 ( 22 U.S.C. 7833(b)(2) ) is amended by striking section 103(14) and inserting section 103(15) . Section 207 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2005 ( 42 U.S.C. 14044e ) is amended— in paragraph (1), by striking section 103(8) and inserting section 103(9) ; in paragraph (2), by striking section 103(9) and inserting section 103(10) ; and in paragraph (3), by striking section 103(3) and inserting section 103(4) . Section 111(a)(1) of the Violence Against Women and Department of Justice Reauthorization Act of 2005 ( 42 U.S.C. 14044f(a)(1) ) is amended by striking paragraph
(8)and inserting paragraph
(9).
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