On the heels of the California Supply Chains Act is the "Business Transparency on Trafficking and Slavery Act" introduced in Congress on August 1, 2011. If the Act's Congressional sponsors prevail, it will nationalize (and expand) the California Act's requirements.  The pending federal Act, indeed, picks up the California Act's leitmotiv: "[T]he United States is the world's largest importer, and in the twenty-first century, investors, consumers, and broader civil society increasingly demand information about the human rights impact of products in the United States market."  The requirements of the pending Business Transparency on Trafficking and Slavery Act are summarized here.