S.Amdt. 3536

SA 3536. Ms. CORTEZ MASTO (for herself and Mr. Toomey) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 3399 proposed by Mr.
Shelby to the bill H.R. 6147, making appropriations for the Department
of the Interior, environment, and related agencies for the fiscal year
ending September 30, 2019, and for other purposes; which was ordered to
lie on the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place in division B, insert the
following:

SEC. __. FIGHTING ILLICIT NETWORKS AND DETECTING TRAFFICKING.

(a) Short Title.--This section may be cited as the ``Fight
Illicit Networks and Detect Trafficking Act'' or the ``FIND
Trafficking Act''.
(b) GAO Study.--
(1) Study required.--The Comptroller General of the United
States shall conduct a study on how virtual currencies and
online marketplaces are used to facilitate sex and drug
trafficking that considers--
(A) how online marketplaces, including the dark web, are
being used as platforms to buy, sell, or facilitate the
financing of goods or services associated with sex
trafficking or drug trafficking (specifically, opioids and
synthetic opioids, including fentanyl, fentanyl analogs, and
any precursor chemicals associated with manufacturing
fentanyl or fentanyl analogs) destined for, originating from,
or within the United States;
(B) how financial payment methods, including virtual
currencies and peer-to-peer mobile payment services, are
being utilized by online marketplaces to facilitate the
buying, selling, or financing of goods and services
associated with sex or drug trafficking destined for,
originating from, or within the United States;
(C) how virtual currencies are being used to facilitate the
buying, selling, or financing of goods and services
associated with sex or drug trafficking, destined for,
originating from, or within the United States, when an online
platform is not otherwise involved;
(D) how illicit funds that have been transmitted online and
through virtual currencies are repatriated into the formal
banking system of the United States through money laundering
or other means;
(E) the participants (state and nonstate actors) throughout
the entire supply chain that participate in or benefit from
the buying, selling, or financing of goods and services
associated with sex or drug trafficking (either through
online marketplaces or virtual currencies) destined for,
originating from, or within the United States;
(F) Federal and State agency efforts to impede the buying,
selling, or financing of goods and services associated with
sex or drug trafficking destined for, originating from, or
within the United States, including efforts to prevent the
proceeds from sex or drug trafficking from entering the
United States banking system;
(G) how virtual currencies and their underlying
technologies can be used to detect and deter these illicit
activities; and
(H) to what extent can the immutable and traceable nature
of virtual currencies contribute to the tracking and
prosecution of illicit funding.
(2) Scope.--In paragraph (1), the term ``sex trafficking''
means the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision,
obtaining, patronizing, or soliciting of a person for the
purpose of a commercial sex act that is induced by force,
fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform
such act has not attained 18 years of age.
(c) Report to Congress.--Not later than 1 year after the
date of the enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of
the United States shall submit a report to the Committee on
Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate and the
Committee on Financial Services of the House of
Representatives that--
(1) summarizes the results of the study required under
subsection (b); and
(2) contains any recommendations for legislative or
regulatory action that would improve the efforts of Federal
agencies to impede the use of virtual currencies and online
marketplaces in facilitating sex and drug trafficking.
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