ECCHO Act
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Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill creates a federal crime for coercing minors to commit suicide, homicide, serious self-harm or violence, animal harm, arson, doxxing, swatting, and similar acts, and makes conforming updates to related federal criminal statutes.
Who Benefits and How
Minors targeted by online or interstate coercion campaigns could gain stronger federal protection against manipulation into suicide, violence, doxxing, swatting, and related harms.
Who Bears the Burden and How
People who intentionally coerce minors into those harmful acts would face a new federal offense carrying severe criminal penalties.
Key Provisions
- Defines coercion broadly and creates a new federal offense for coercing minors into suicide, homicide, bodily harm, animal harm, arson, doxxing, swatting, and related false reports.
- Sets penalties up to life imprisonment for the most serious offenses and up to 30 years for others.
- Makes conforming amendments to related child exploitation and criminal procedure statutes and includes a severability clause.
Evidence Chain:
This summary is generated from the full bill text using AI analysis. Expand "Detailed Analysis" below for identified beneficiaries/burden bearers.
At a Glance
What This Bill Does
This bill creates a federal crime for coercing minors to commit suicide, homicide, serious self-harm or violence, animal harm, arson, doxxing, swatting, and similar acts, and makes conforming updates to related federal criminal statutes.
Key Policy Areas
Criminal Justice, Child Safety, Technology
Primary Purpose
This bill creates a federal crime for coercing minors to commit suicide, homicide, serious self-harm or violence, animal harm, arson, doxxing, swatting, and similar acts, and makes conforming updates to related federal criminal statutes.
Policy Domains
Main Provisions
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Minors protected from coercion into violent, self-destructive, or terrorizing acts
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- People exposed to new federal criminal liability for coercing minors into harmful conduct
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMr. Grassley (for himself, Mr. Durbin, Ms. Klobuchar, Mr. Cornyn, …
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Introduced in Senate
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Minors vulnerable to coercion into suicide, violence, doxxing, or swatting, People subject to new federal criminal liability for coercing minors into harmful acts
Positive-direction: Minors vulnerable to coercion into suicide, violence, doxxing, or swatting
Negative-direction: People subject to new federal criminal liability for coercing minors into harmful acts
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
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