US Congress Senate Resolution 439 (Prior Session Legislation)

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December 20 2012 - Resolution agreed to in Senate without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (text: CR S8319-8320)
Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [PDF]

Expresses support for: (1) law enforcement agency efforts to provide training to law enforcement agents on how to investigate and prosecute cases of sex trafficking and how to identify and rescue trafficking victims; and (2) trafficking victim services provided by the federal, state, and local governments and non-profit and faith-based organizations, including medical, legal, mental health, housing, and other social services. Calls on Village Voice Media Holdings, LLC to act as a responsible global citizen and immediately eliminate the "adult entertainment" section of the classified advertising website Backpage.com to terminate the website's facilitation of online sex trafficking.

A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that Village Voice Media Holdings, LLC should eliminate the "adult entertainment" section of the classified advertising website Backpage.com.

Sen Blumenthal, Richard	Sen Cantwell, Maria	Sen Collins, Susan M.	Sen Cornyn, John
Sen Durbin, Richard	Sen Gillibrand, Kirsten E.	Sen Kirk, Mark Steven	Sen Lieberman, Joseph I.
Sen Rubio, Marco	Sen Whitehouse, Sheldon

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-12-20	Senate	Resolution agreed to in Senate without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (text: CR S8319-8320)
2012-12-20	Senate	Senate Committee on the Judiciary discharged by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S8318-8320)
2012-04-25	Senate	Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2736-2737)

HR646 (Same As) 2012-05-18 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
HR649 (Related) 2012-05-18 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, Competition and the Internet.

Type	Source
Summary	http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:SE00439:@@@L&summ2=m&
Text	http://gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112sres439is/pdf/BILLS-112sres439is.pdf
Text	http://gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112sres439ats/pdf/BILLS-112sres439ats.pdf