Sec. 6. Actions under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and amendments to the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000
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The President may exercise the authorities specified in section 203 of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act ( 50 U.S.C. 1702 ) without regard to section 202 of such Act ( 50 U.S.C. 1701 ) in the case of travel abroad by United States citizens for the purpose of participation in any activity relating to trafficking in human organs. Section 103 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 ( 22 U.S.C. 7102 ) is amended— in paragraph (3)— in subparagraph (B), by striking or at the end; in subparagraph (C), by striking the period at the end and inserting ; or ; and by adding at the end the following new subparagraph: exploitation of a person through the promise of the granting of payments or benefits in order to compel or entice the person to consent to the removal of one or more of the person’s organs for a transplant operation, in a manner contrary to the standards described in WHO Assembly Resolution WHA 57.18 (May 22, 2004). ; in paragraph (9)— in subparagraph (A), by striking or at the end; in subparagraph (B), by striking the period at the end and inserting: ; or ; and by adding at the end the following new subparagraph: trafficking in human organs (as defined in paragraph (13)). ; by redesignating paragraphs
(13)through
(15)as paragraphs
(14)through (16), respectively; by inserting after paragraph
(12)the following new paragraph: The term trafficking in human organs means— the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring, or receipt of a person, either living or deceased, for the purpose of removing one or more of the person’s organs, by means of— coercion; abduction; deception; abuse of power or a position of vulnerability; or transfer of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over a person described in the matter preceding subclause (I); or the illicit transportation and transplantation of organs in one or more other persons for profit or any other purpose. In subparagraph (A), the term organ means the human (including fetal) kidney, liver, heart, lung, pancreas, bone marrow, cornea, eye, bone, and skin or any subpart thereof and any other human organ (or any subpart thereof, including that derived from a fetus) specified by the President by regulation for purposes of this division. ; and in paragraph (15), as so redesignated, by inserting before the period at the end the following: or
(13). Section 105(d)(3) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 ( 22 U.S.C. 7103(d)(3) ) is amended by inserting after the first sentence the following new sentence: Such procedures shall include collection and organization of data from human rights officers at United States embassies on host country’s laws against trafficking in human organs and any instances of violations of such laws. .
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Sec. 6
Actions under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and amendments to the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000
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