HR 6732
Passed a chamber
Makes it a federal crime to use threats, blackmail, fraud, or manipulation to compel a minor to harm themselves, crush animals, engage in abusive nonsexual conduct, or engage in sexually explicit conduct.
Official title: Coercion and Sexual Abuse Free Environment Act
Timeline each lane is a chamber; dates pull from congress.gov actions
House
Introduced
16-DEC-2025
Referred
16-DEC-2025
Approved by committee
18-DEC-2025
Passed
12-JAN-2026
Senate
Received
13-JAN-2026
- Covers coercion carried out through the mail, interstate or foreign commerce, or within federal special maritime and territorial jurisdiction.
- Sets a prison term of up to 10 years, up to 20 years if serious bodily injury results, and any term of years or life if death results.
- Defines compel to include threats, extortion, blackmail, fraud, deceit, or manipulation.
- Makes a conforming change to the federal juvenile delinquency statute, 18 U.S.C. 5032, to add a reference to section 2242(c).
Covers an older version. The newest CRS summary describes the bill as of "Introduced in House" (16-DEC-2025); the text has changed since (Engrossed in House, 12-JAN-2026).
CRS is the Library of Congress's nonpartisan research office. Read it on congress.gov- Judiciary Committee (House)
- Judiciary Committee (Senate)
Crime and Law Enforcement
■ 8 R■ 1 D
8 Republicans
1 Democrat