1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Closing the Law Enforcement Consent Loophole Act of 2018 . 2. Federal law enforcement officers prohibited from engaging in sexual acts with individuals in their custody (a) In general Section 2243 of title 18, United States Code, is amended— (1) by adding at the end the following: , or of individual in the custody of a Federal law enforcement officer ; (2) by redesignating subsections (c) and (d) as subsections (d) and (e); (3) by inserting after subsection (b) the following: (c) Of individual in the custody of a Federal law enforcement officer Whoever, being a Federal law enforcement officer, knowingly engages in a sexual act with an individual who is under arrest, in detention, or otherwise in the actual custody of that Federal law enforcement officer, shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 15 years, or both. ; and (4) in subsection (d), as so redesignated, by adding at the end the following: (3) In a prosecution under subsection (c), it is not a defense that the other person consented to the sexual act. . (b) Definition Section 2246 of title 18, United States Code, is amended— (1) in paragraph (5), by striking and at the end; (2) in paragraph (6), by striking the period at the end and inserting ; and