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HR 1144 Cleared committee

Extends federal anti-human trafficking programs through fiscal year 2029, creates a program that helps adult trafficking survivors with education and jobs, expands school prevention grants, and changes how the State Department ranks countries on trafficking.

Official title: Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act of 2025

Next stop House floor: awaiting a vote
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House
Introduced 07-FEB-2025
Referred 07-FEB-2025
Approved by committee 22-JUL-2025
Key points
  • Extends authorized appropriations for fiscal years 2025 through 2029, including $111,000,000 under one subsection of the 2000 Act and up to $37,500,000 for programs to end modern slavery.
  • Creates the Frederick Douglass Human Trafficking Survivors Employment and Education Program, which funds nonprofit providers to offer adult trafficking victims basic education, job training, case management, and help with expunging nonviolent criminal records.
  • Renames the school trafficking prevention grants, gives priority to areas with high rates of child sex or labor trafficking, and requires an annual Health and Human Services report on grant results.
  • Replaces the State Department's "special watch list" with a "Tier 2 watch list," requires the annual trafficking report to cover trafficking for organ removal, and removes a duplicative trade reporting requirement.
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Official CRS summary

Current. The Congressional Research Service's summary covers the bill's latest wording (Introduced in House, 07-FEB-2025).

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Committee referrals (3) Policy area

Crime and Law Enforcement

Sponsor Christopher H. Smith (R-NJ) Cosponsors · 25
■ 13 R■ 12 D