Official Summaries

Justice for Rape Survivors Act

This bill establishes a 30-year statutory mandatory minimum prison term for the following federal sexual abuse offenses: 

• causing another person to engage in a sexual act by using force against that person or by threatening or placing that person in fear,
• engaging in or attempting to engage in a sexual act with another person by rendering the other person unconscious or intoxicated,
• causing or attempting to cause another person to engage in a sexual act by threatening or placing that person in fear,
• engaging or attempting to engage in a sexual act if the other person is incapacitated, and
• engaging or attempting to engage in a sexual act without the other person's consent. 

Current Full Text

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 395 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 395

            To require mandatory minimums for sexual abuse.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 14, 2025

  Mrs. Luna (for herself and Mrs. Miller of Illinois) introduced the 
  following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
            To require mandatory minimums for sexual abuse.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Justice for Rape Survivors Act''.

SEC. 2. MANDATORY MINIMUMS FOR SEXUAL ABUSE.

    (a) Aggravated Sexual Abuse.--Section 2241 of title 18, United 
States Code, is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a), by striking ``imprisoned for any 
        term of years or life,'' and inserting ``imprisoned for not 
        less than 30 years or for life,''; and
            (2) in subsection (b), by striking ``imprisoned for any 
        term of years or life,'' and inserting ``imprisoned for not 
        less than 30 years or for life,''.
    (b) Sexual Abuse.--Section 2242 of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended by striking ``imprisoned for any term of years or for life'' 
and inserting ``imprisoned for not less than 30 years or for life''.
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