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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 1144
To reauthorize the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, and for
other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
FEBRUARY7, 2025
Mr. S
MITHof New Jersey (for himself, Mr. MFUME, Mr. MCCAUL, and Ms.
S
ALAZAR) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on the Ju-
diciary, and Education and Workforce, for a period to be subsequently
determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provi-
sions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned
A BILL
To reauthorize the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of
2000, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Frederick Douglass 4
Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthor-5
ization Act of 2025’’. 6
SEC. 2. TABLE OF CONTENTS. 7
The table of contents for this Act is as follows: 8
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Sec. 1. Short title.
Sec. 2. Table of contents.
TITLE I—COMBATING TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS IN THE UNITED
STATES
Sec. 101. Modifications to grants to assist in the recognition of trafficking.
Sec. 102. Human Trafficking Survivors Employment and Education Program.
TITLE II—FIGHTING HUMAN TRAFFICKING ABROAD
Sec. 201. Modifications to program to end modern slavery grants.
Sec. 202. Amendments to tier standards.
Sec. 203. Counter-trafficking in persons efforts in development cooperation and
assistance policy.
Sec. 204. Clarification of nonhumanitarian, nontrade-related foreign assistance.
Sec. 205. Trafficking for the purposes of organ harvesting.
Sec. 206. Elimination of duplicative reporting.
Sec. 207. Effective dates.
Sec. 208. Printed version of the annual tip report.
TITLE III—AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS
Sec. 301. Extension of authorizations under the Victims of Trafficking and Vio-
lence Protection Act of 2000.
Sec. 302. Extension of authorizations under the International Megan’s Law.
TITLE I—COMBATING TRAF-1
FICKING IN PERSONS IN THE 2
UNITED STATES 3
SEC. 101. MODIFICATIONS TO GRANTS TO ASSIST IN THE 4
RECOGNITION OF TRAFFICKING. 5
(a) A
MENDMENTS TO AUTHORITIES TO PREVENT 6
T
RAFFICKING.—Section 106(b)(2) of the Victims of Traf-7
ficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 8
7104(b)) is amended— 9
(1) in the heading, by striking ‘‘G
RANTS TO AS-10
SIST IN THE RECOGNITION OF TRAFFICKING ’’ and 11
inserting ‘‘F
REDERICK DOUGLASS HUMAN TRAF -12
FICKING PREVENTION EDUCATION GRANTS ’’; 13
(2) in subparagraph (B)— 14
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(A) in the matter preceding clause (i), by 1
inserting ‘‘under a program named ‘Frederick 2
Douglass Human Trafficking Prevention Edu-3
cation Grants’’’ after ‘‘may award grants’’; and 4
(B) in clause (ii), by inserting ‘‘, linguis-5
tically accessible, and culturally responsive’’ 6
after ‘‘age-appropriate’’; 7
(3) in the heading of subparagraph (C), by in-8
serting ‘‘
FOR FREDERICK DOUGLASS HUMAN TRAF -9
FICKING PREVENTION EDUCATION GRANTS ’’ after 10
‘‘
PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS ’’; 11
(4) by amending subparagraph (D) to read as 12
follows: 13
‘‘(D) P
RIORITY.—In awarding Frederick 14
Douglass Human Trafficking Prevention Edu-15
cation Grants under this paragraph, the Sec-16
retary shall— 17
‘‘(i) give priority to local educational 18
agencies serving a high-intensity child sex 19
trafficking area or an area with significant 20
child labor trafficking; 21
‘‘(ii) give additional priority to local 22
educational agencies that partner with 23
non-profit organizations specializing in 24
human trafficking prevention education, 25
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which partner with law enforcement and 1
technology or social media companies, to 2
assist in training efforts to protect children 3
from labor trafficking and sexual exploi-4
tation and abuse including grooming, ma-5
terials depicting the sexual abuse of chil-6
dren, and human trafficking transmitted 7
through technology; and 8
‘‘(iii) consult, as appropriate, with the 9
Secretary of Education, the Secretary of 10
Housing and Urban Development, the Sec-11
retary of the Interior, the Secretary of 12
Labor, and the Attorney General, to iden-13
tify the geographic areas in the United 14
States with the highest prevalence of at- 15
risk populations for child trafficking, in-16
cluding children who are members of a ra-17
cial or ethnic minority, homeless youth, 18
foster youth, youth involved in the child 19
welfare system, and children and youth 20
who run away from home or an out-of- 21
home placement.’’; and 22
(5) by adding at the end the following: 23
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‘‘(E) CRITERIA FOR SELECTION .—Grant-1
ees should be selected based on their dem-2
onstrated ability to— 3
‘‘(i) engage stakeholders, including 4
survivors of human trafficking, and Fed-5
eral, State, local, or Tribal partners, to de-6
velop the programs; 7
‘‘(ii) train the trainers, guardians, K– 8
12 students, teachers, and other school 9
personnel in a linguistically accessible, cul-10
turally responsive, age-appropriate, and 11
trauma-informed fashion; and 12
‘‘(iii) create a scalable, repeatable pro-13
gram to prevent child labor trafficking and 14
sexual exploitation and abuse including 15
grooming, child sexual abuse materials, 16
and trafficking transmitted through tech-17
nology that— 18
‘‘(I) uses evidence-based (as such 19
term is defined in section 20
8101(21)(A) of the Elementary and 21
Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 22
U.S.C. 7801(21)(A))) best practices; 23
and 24
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‘‘(II) employs appropriate techno-1
logical tools and methodologies, in-2
cluding linguistically accessible, cul-3
turally responsive, age-appropriate, 4
and trauma-informed approaches for 5
trainers, guardians, educators, and 6
K–12 students. 7
‘‘(F) T
RAIN THE TRAINERS .—For pur-8
poses of subparagraph (E), the term ‘train the 9
trainers’ means having experienced or master 10
trainers coach new trainers who are less experi-11
enced with a particular topic or skill, or with 12
training overall, who can then teach the mate-13
rial to others, creating a broader reach, sustain-14
ability, and making efforts cost- and time-effi-15
cient (commonly referred to as ‘training of 16
trainers’). 17
‘‘(G) D
ATA COLLECTION.—The Secretary 18
shall consult with the Secretary of Education, 19
the Secretary of Housing and Urban Develop-20
ment, and the Secretary of the Interior to de-21
termine the appropriate demographics of the re-22
cipients or of students at risk of being traf-23
ficked or exploited, to be collected and reported 24
with respect to grants under this paragraph, 25
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which shall include data collection of, at a min-1
imum, students who are economically disadvan-2
taged, members of a racial or ethnic minority, 3
homeless youth, foster youth, youth involved in 4
the child welfare system, and children and 5
youth who run away from home or an out-of- 6
home placement. 7
‘‘(H) R
EPORT.—Not later than 540 days 8
after the date of the enactment of this subpara-9
graph, and annually thereafter, the Secretary of 10
Health and Human Services shall submit to the 11
Committees on Education and Labor, Energy 12
and Commerce, and the Judiciary of the House 13
of Representatives and the Committees on the 14
Judiciary and Health, Education, Labor, and 15
Pensions of the Senate and make available to 16
the public a report, including data on the fol-17
lowing: 18
‘‘(i) The total number of entities that 19
received a Frederick Douglass Human 20
Trafficking Prevention Education Grant 21
over the past year. 22
‘‘(ii) The total number of partnerships 23
or consultants that included survivors, 24
non-profit organizations specialized in 25
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human trafficking prevention education, 1
law enforcement, and technology or social 2
media companies. 3
‘‘(iii) The total number of elementary 4
and secondary schools that established and 5
implemented evidence-based (as such term 6
is defined in section 8101(21)(A) of the 7
Elementary and Secondary Education Act 8
of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801(21)(A))) best 9
practices through programs developed 10
using such grants. 11
‘‘(iv) The total number and geo-12
graphic distribution of trainers, guardians, 13
students, teachers, and other school per-14
sonnel trained using such grants pursuant 15
to this paragraph. 16
‘‘(v) The results of pre-training and 17
post-training surveys to gauge trainees’ in-18
creased understanding of the scope and 19
signs of child trafficking and child sexual 20
exploitation and abuse; how to interact 21
with potential victims and survivors of 22
child trafficking and child sexual exploi-23
tation and abuse using age-appropriate 24
and trauma-informed approach; and the 25
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manner in which to respond to potential 1
child trafficking and child sexual exploi-2
tation and abuse. 3
‘‘(vi) The number of potential victims 4
and survivors of child trafficking and child 5
sexual exploitation and abuse identified 6
and served by grantees, excluding any indi-7
vidually identifiable information about such 8
children and acting in full compliance with 9
all applicable privacy laws and regulations. 10
‘‘(vii) The number of students in ele-11
mentary or secondary school identified by 12
grantees as being at risk of being traf-13
ficked or sexually exploited and abused, ex-14
cluding any individually identifiable infor-15
mation about such children. 16
‘‘(viii) The demographic characteris-17
tics of child trafficking survivors and vic-18
tims, sexually exploited and abused chil-19
dren, and students at risk of being traf-20
ficked or sexually exploited and abused de-21
scribed in clauses (vi) and (vii), excluding 22
any individually identifiable information 23
about such children. 24
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‘‘(ix) Any service gaps and best prac-1
tices identified by grantees.’’. 2
SEC. 102. HUMAN TRAFFICKING SURVIVORS EMPLOYMENT 3
AND EDUCATION PROGRAM. 4
(a) I
NGENERAL.—The Secretary of Health and 5
Human Services may carry out a Frederick Douglass 6
Human Trafficking Survivors Employment and Education 7
Program to prevent the re-exploitation of eligible individ-8
uals who have been victims of trafficking, by assisting 9
such individuals to integrate or reintegrate into society 10
through social services support for the attainment of life- 11
skills, employment, and education necessary to achieve 12
self-sufficiency. 13
(b) S
ERVICESPROVIDED.—Services offered, pro-14
vided, and funded by the Program shall include (as rel-15
evant to the victim of trafficking)— 16
(1) enrollment and participation in— 17
(A) basic education, including literacy edu-18
cation and English as a second language edu-19
cation; 20
(B) job-related skills training; 21
(C) vocational and certificate programs; 22
and 23
(D) programs for attaining a regular high 24
school diploma or its recognized equivalent; 25
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(2) life-skill training programs, including man-1
agement of personal finances, self-care, and par-2
enting classes; 3
(3) re´sume´creation and review; 4
(4) interview coaching and counseling; 5
(5) assistance with expungement of criminal 6
records when such records are for nonviolent crimes 7
that were committed as a consequence of the eligible 8
individual’s victimization, including assistance with 9
credit repair; 10
(6) assistance with enrollment in college or 11
technical school; 12
(7) scholarship assistance for attending college 13
or technical school; 14
(8) professional coaching or professional devel-15
opment classes; 16
(9) case management to develop an individual-17
ized plan with each victim of trafficking, based on 18
each person’s needs and goals; and 19
(10) assistance with obtaining victim compensa-20
tion, direct victim assistance, or other funds for 21
mental health care. 22
(c) S
ERVICEPERIOD.—Eligible individuals may re-23
ceive services through the Program for a cumulative pe-24
riod of 5 years. 25
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(d) COOPERATIVEAGREEMENTS.—Subject to the 1
availability of appropriations, the Secretary shall enter 2
into cooperative agreements with one or more eligible or-3
ganizations to carry out this section. 4
(e) D
EFINITIONS.—In this section: 5
(1) E
LIGIBLE INDIVIDUAL.—The term ‘‘eligible 6
individual’’ means a domestic or foreign victim of 7
trafficking who— 8
(A) has attained the age of 18 years; and 9
(B) is eligible to receive services under sec-10
tion 107(b) of the Trafficking Victims Protec-11
tion Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7105(b)). 12
(2) E
LIGIBLE ORGANIZATION .—The ‘‘eligible 13
organization’’ may include a nongovernmental orga-14
nization and means a service provider that meets the 15
following criteria: 16
(A) Experience in using national or local 17
anti-trafficking networks to serve victims of 18
trafficking. 19
(B) Experience qualifying, providing, and 20
coordinating services for victims of trafficking, 21
as described in subsection (b), that is linguis-22
tically accessible, culturally responsive, age-ap-23
propriate, and trauma-informed. 24
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(C) With respect to a service provider for 1
victims of trafficking served by the Program 2
who are not United States citizens, a provider 3
that has experience in identifying and assisting 4
foreign-born victims of trafficking, including 5
helping them qualify for Continued Presence, 6
T–Visas, and other Federal, State, and local 7
services and funding. 8
(D) With respect to a service provider for 9
victims of trafficking served by the Program 10
who are United States citizens and legal perma-11
nent residents, a provider that has experience 12
identifying and assisting victims of trafficking, 13
as such term is defined in section 103 of the 14
Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 15
U.S.C. 7102), especially youth and underserved 16
populations. 17
(3) P
ROGRAM.—The term ‘‘Program’’ means 18
the Frederick Douglass Human Trafficking Sur-19
vivors Employment and Education Program estab-20
lished under this section. 21
(4) S
ECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 22
the Secretary of Health and Human Services. 23
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TITLE II—FIGHTING HUMAN 1
TRAFFICKING ABROAD 2
SEC. 201. MODIFICATIONS TO PROGRAM TO END MODERN 3
SLAVERY GRANTS. 4
(a) I
NGENERAL.—Section 1298 of the National De-5
fense Authorization Act of 2017 (22 U.S.C. 7114) is 6
amended as follows: 7
(1) In subsection (g)(2), by striking ‘‘2020’’ 8
and inserting ‘‘2029’’. 9
(2) In subsection (h)(1), by striking ‘‘Not later 10
than September 30, 2018, and September 30, 2020’’ 11
and inserting ‘‘Not later than September 30, 2025, 12
and September 30, 2029’’. 13
(b) A
WARD OFFUNDS.—All grants awarded under 14
the authority provided by section 1298 of the National De-15
fense Authorization Act of 2017, as amended by sub-16
section (a), shall be— 17
(1) awarded on a competitive basis; and 18
(2) subject to the regular congressional notifica-19
tion procedures applicable with respect to grants 20
made available under section 1298(b) of the Na-21
tional Defense Authorization Act of 2017 (22 U.S.C. 22
7114(b)). 23
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SEC. 202. AMENDMENTS TO TIER STANDARDS. 1
(a) M
ODIFICATIONS TOTIER2 WATCHLIST.—Sub-2
section (b)(2) of section 110 of the Trafficking Victims 3
Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7107) is amended— 4
(1) in the heading, by striking ‘‘
SPECIAL’’ and 5
inserting ‘‘
TIER 2’’; and 6
(2) by amending subparagraph (A) to read as 7
follows: 8
‘‘(A) S
UBMISSION OF LIST .—Not later 9
than the date on which the determinations de-10
scribed in subsections (c) and (d) are submitted 11
to the appropriate congressional committees in 12
accordance with such subsections, the Secretary 13
of State shall submit to the appropriate con-14
gressional committees a list of countries that 15
the Secretary determines require special scru-16
tiny during the following year. The list shall be 17
composed of countries that have been listed 18
pursuant to paragraph (1)(B) pursuant to the 19
current annual report because— 20
‘‘(i) the estimated number of victims 21
of severe forms of trafficking is very sig-22
nificant or is significantly increasing and 23
the country is not taking proportional con-24
crete actions; or 25
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‘‘(ii) there is a failure to provide evi-1
dence of increasing efforts to combat se-2
vere forms of trafficking in persons from 3
the previous year, including increased in-4
vestigations, prosecutions and convictions 5
of trafficking crimes, increased assistance 6
to victims, and decreasing evidence of com-7
plicity in severe forms of trafficking by 8
government officials.’’. 9
(b) M
ODIFICATION TOSPECIALRULE FORDOWN-10
GRADED AND REINSTATED COUNTRIES.—Subsection 11
(b)(2)(F) of such section 110 (22 U.S.C. 7107) is amend-12
ed— 13
(1) in the matter preceding clause (i), by strik-14
ing ‘‘the special watch list’’ and all that follows 15
through ‘‘the country—’’ and inserting ‘‘the Tier 2 16
watch list described in subparagraph (A) for more 17
than 2 years immediately after the country consecu-18
tively—’’; 19
(2) in clause (i), in the matter preceding sub-20
clause (I), by striking ‘‘the special watch list de-21
scribed in subparagraph (A)(iii)’’ and inserting ‘‘the 22
Tier 2 watch list described in subparagraph (A)’’; 23
and 24
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(3) in clause (ii), by inserting ‘‘in the year fol-1
lowing such waiver under subparagraph (D)(ii)’’ be-2
fore the period at the end. 3
(c) C
ONFORMING AMENDMENTS TO THE TRAF-4
FICKINGVICTIMSPROTECTIONACT OF2000.—Sub-5
section (b) of such section 110 (22 U.S.C. 7107) is 6
amended as follows: 7
(1) In paragraph (2), as amended by subsection 8
(a)— 9
(A) in subparagraph (B), by striking ‘‘spe-10
cial watch list’’ and inserting ‘‘Tier 2 watch 11
list’’; 12
(B) in subparagraph (C), by striking ‘‘spe-13
cial watch list’’ and inserting ‘‘Tier 2 watch 14
list’’; and 15
(C) in subparagraph (D)— 16
(i) in the heading, by striking ‘‘
SPE-17
CIAL WATCH LIST’’ and inserting ‘‘TIER 2 18
WATCH LIST’’; and 19
(ii) in clause (i), by striking ‘‘special 20
watch list’’ and inserting ‘‘Tier 2 watch 21
list’’. 22
(2) In paragraph (3)(B), in the matter pre-23
ceding clause (i), by striking ‘‘clauses (i), (ii), and 24
(iii) of’’. 25
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(3) In paragraph (4)— 1
(A) in subparagraph (A), in the matter 2
preceding clause (i), by striking ‘‘each country 3
described in paragraph (2)(A)(ii)’’ and inserting 4
‘‘each country described in paragraph (2)(A)’’; 5
and 6
(B) in subparagraph (D)(ii), by striking 7
‘‘the Special Watch List under paragraph (2)’’ 8
and inserting ‘‘the Tier 2 watch list under para-9
graph (2)’’. 10
(d) C
ONFORMINGAMENDMENT TO THE FREDERICK 11
D
OUGLASSTRAFFICKINGVICTIMSPREVENTION AND 12
P
ROTECTIONREAUTHORIZATION ACT OF2018.—Section 13
204(b)(1) of the Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims 14
Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act of 2018 15
(Public Law 115–425) is amended by striking ‘‘special 16
watch list’’ and inserting ‘‘Tier 2 watch list’’. 17
(e) C
ONFORMINGAMENDMENT TO THE BIPARTISAN 18
C
ONGRESSIONAL TRADEPRIORITIES AND ACCOUNT-19
ABILITYACT OF2015.—Section 106(b)(6)(E)(iii) of the 20
Bipartisan Congressional Trade Priorities and Account-21
ability Act of 2015 (Public Law 114–26; 19 U.S.C. 22
4205(b)(6)(E)(iii)) is amended by striking ‘‘under sec-23
tion’’ and all that follows and inserting ‘‘under section 24
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110(b)(2)(A) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 1
2000 (22 U.S.C. 7107(b)(2)(A))’’. 2
SEC. 203. COUNTER-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS EFFORTS IN 3
DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION AND ASSIST-4
ANCE POLICY. 5
The Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2151 6
et seq.) is amended— 7
(1) in section 102(b)(4) (22 U.S.C. 2151– 8
1(b)(4))— 9
(A) in subparagraph (F), by striking 10
‘‘and’’ at the end; 11
(B) in subparagraph (G), by striking the 12
period at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 13
(C) by adding at the end the following: 14
‘‘(H) effective counter-trafficking in per-15
sons policies and programs.’’; and 16
(2) in section 492(d)(1) (22 U.S.C. 17
2292a(d)(1))— 18
(A) by striking the period at the end and 19
inserting ‘‘; and’’; 20
(B) by striking ‘‘that the funds’’ and in-21
serting the following:— ‘‘that— 22
‘‘(A) the funds’’; and 23
(C) by adding at the end the following: 24
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‘‘(B) in carrying out the provisions of this 1
chapter, the President shall, to the greatest ex-2
tent possible— 3
‘‘(i) ensure that assistance made 4
available under this section does not create 5
or contribute to conditions that can be rea-6
sonably expected to result in an increase in 7
trafficking in persons who are in condi-8
tions of heightened vulnerability as a result 9
of natural and manmade disasters; and 10
‘‘(ii) incorporate appropriate protec-11
tions into the planning and execution of 12
activities authorized under this chapter.’’. 13
SEC. 204. CLARIFICATION OF NONHUMANITARIAN, 14
NONTRADE-RELATED FOREIGN ASSISTANCE. 15
(a) C
LARIFICATION OFSCOPE OFWITHHELDAS-16
SISTANCE.—Section 110(d)(1)(A) of the Trafficking Vic-17
tims Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7107(d)(1)(A)) 18
is amended to read as follows: 19
‘‘(A) the United States will not provide 20
nonhumanitarian, nontrade-related foreign as-21
sistance to the central government of the coun-22
try, or any funding to facilitate the participa-23
tion by officials or employees of such central 24
government in educational and cultural ex-25
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change programs, before the end of the first fis-1
cal year beginning after such government com-2
plies with the minimum standards or makes sig-3
nificant efforts to bring itself into compliance; 4
and’’. 5
(b) D
EFINITION OFNONHUMANITARIAN, NONTRADE- 6
R
ELATEDASSISTANCE.—Section 103(10) of the Traf-7
ficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 8
7102(10)) is amended to read as follows: 9
‘‘(10) N
ONHUMANITARIAN, NONTRADE-RE-10
LATED FOREIGN ASSISTANCE .— 11
‘‘(A) I
N GENERAL.—The term ‘non-12
humanitarian, nontrade-related foreign assist-13
ance’ means— 14
‘‘(i) United States foreign assistance, 15
other than— 16
‘‘(I) with respect to the Foreign 17
Assistance Act of 1961— 18
‘‘(aa) assistance for inter-19
national narcotics and law en-20
forcement under chapter 8 of 21
part I of such Act (22 U.S.C. 22
2291 et seq.); 23
‘‘(bb) assistance for Inter-24
national Disaster Assistance 25
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under subsections (b) and (c) of 1
section 491 of such Act (22 2
U.S.C. 2292); 3
‘‘(cc) antiterrorism assist-4
ance under chapter 8 of part II 5
of such Act (22 U.S.C. 2349aa et 6
seq.); and 7
‘‘(dd) health programs 8
under chapters 1 and 10 of part 9
I and chapter 4 of part II of 10
such Act (22 U.S.C. 2151 et 11
seq.); 12
‘‘(II) assistance under the Food 13
for Peace Act (7 U.S.C. 1691 et seq.); 14
‘‘(III) assistance under sub-15
sections (a), (b), and (c) of section 2 16
of the Migration and Refugee Assist-17
ance Act of 1962 (22 U.S.C. 2601(a)– 18
(c)) to meet refugee and migration 19
needs; 20
‘‘(IV) any form of United States 21
foreign assistance provided through 22
nongovernmental organizations, inter-23
national organizations, or private sec-24
tor partners— 25
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‘‘(aa) to combat human and 1
wildlife trafficking; 2
‘‘(bb) to promote food secu-3
rity; 4
‘‘(cc) to respond to emer-5
gencies; 6
‘‘(dd) to provide humani-7
tarian assistance; 8
‘‘(ee) to address basic 9
human needs, including for edu-10
cation; 11
‘‘(ff) to advance global 12
health security; or 13
‘‘(gg) to promote trade; and 14
‘‘(V) any other form of United 15
States foreign assistance that the 16
President determines, by not later 17
than October 1 of each fiscal year, is 18
necessary to advance the security, eco-19
nomic, humanitarian, or global health 20
interests of the United States without 21
compromising the steadfast United 22
States commitment to combatting 23
human trafficking globally; or 24
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‘‘(ii) sales, or financing on any terms, 1
under the Arms Export Control Act (22 2
U.S.C. 2751 et seq.), other than sales or 3
financing provided for narcotics-related 4
purposes following notification in accord-5
ance with the prior notification procedures 6
applicable to reprogrammings pursuant to 7
section 634A of the Foreign Assistance Act 8
of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2394–1). 9
‘‘(B) E
XCLUSIONS.—The term ‘non-10
humanitarian, nontrade-related foreign assist-11
ance’ shall not include payments to, or the par-12
ticipation of, government entities necessary or 13
incidental to the implementation of a program 14
that is otherwise consistent with section 110 of 15
this Act.’’. 16
SEC. 205. TRAFFICKING FOR THE PURPOSES OF ORGAN 17
HARVESTING. 18
Section 110(b)(1) of the Trafficking Victims Protec-19
tion Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7107(b)(1)) is amended— 20
(1) in subparagraph (G), by striking ‘‘and’’ at 21
the end; 22
(2) in subparagraph (H), by striking the period 23
at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 24
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(3) by inserting after subparagraph (H) the fol-1
lowing: 2
‘‘(I) information about the trafficking in 3
persons for the purpose of organ removal, in-4
cluding cases and steps governments are under-5
taking to prevent, identify, and eliminate such 6
trafficking.’’. 7
SEC. 206. ELIMINATION OF DUPLICATIVE REPORTING. 8
Section 106(b)(6) of the Bipartisan Congressional 9
Trade Priorities and Accountability Act of 2015 (Public 10
Law 114–26; 19 U.S.C. 4205(b)(6)) is amended— 11
(1) by striking subparagraph (C); and 12
(2) by redesignating subparagraphs (D) and 13
(E) as subparagraphs (C) and (D), respectively. 14
SEC. 207. EFFECTIVE DATES. 15
Sections 202(b) and 205 and the amendments made 16
by those sections take effect on the date that is the first 17
day of the first full reporting period for the report re-18
quired by section 110(b)(1) of the Trafficking Victims 19
Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7107(b)(1)), as so 20
amended, after the date of the enactment of this Act. 21
SEC. 208. PRINTED VERSION OF THE ANNUAL TIP REPORT. 22
Section 107(c) of the William Wilberforce Trafficking 23
Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 (22 24
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U.S.C. 7107 note; Public Law 110–457; 122 Stat. 5050) 1
is amended— 2
(1) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘and’’ at the 3
end; 4
(2) in paragraph (2), by striking the period at 5
the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 6
(3) by adding the following new paragraph: 7
‘‘(3) ensure that a printed hardcopy format of 8
the annual report submitted under section 110(b) of 9
the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 10
U.S.C. 7107(b)) is made available to the public.’’. 11
TITLE III—AUTHORIZATION OF 12
APPROPRIATIONS 13
SEC. 301. EXTENSION OF AUTHORIZATIONS UNDER THE 14
VICTIMS OF TRAFFICKING AND VIOLENCE 15
PROTECTION ACT OF 2000. 16
Section 113 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act 17
of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7110) is amended— 18
(1) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘for each of 19
the fiscal years 2018 through 2021, $13,822,000’’ 20
and inserting ‘‘for each of the fiscal years 2025 21
through 2029, $23,000,000’’; 22
(2) in subsection (b)(1)— 23
(A) by striking ‘‘To carry out the purposes 24
of sections 106(b) and 107(b),’’ and inserting 25
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‘‘To carry out the purposes of sections 106(b) 1
and 107(b) of this Act and sections 101 and 2
102 of the Frederick Douglass Trafficking Vic-3
tims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization 4
Act of 2023,’’; and 5
(B) by striking ‘‘$19,500,000’’ and all that 6
follows, and inserting ‘‘$30,755,000 for each of 7
the fiscal years 2025 through 2029, of which 8
$5,000,000 is authorized to be appropriated in 9
each fiscal year for the National Human Traf-10
ficking Hotline and for cybersecurity and public 11
education campaigns, in consultation with the 12
Secretary of Homeland Security, for identifying 13
and responding as needed to cases of human 14
trafficking.’’; 15
(3) in subsection (c)(1)— 16
(A) in the matter preceding subparagraph 17
(A), by striking ‘‘2018 through 2021, 18
$65,000,000’’ and inserting ‘‘2025 through 19
2029, $111,000,000’’; 20
(4) in subsection (c) by adding at the end the 21
following new paragraph: 22
‘‘(3) P
ROGRAMS TO END MODERN SLAVERY .— 23
Of the amounts authorized by paragraph (1) to be 24
appropriated for a fiscal year, not more than 25
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$37,500,000 may be made available to fund pro-1
grams to end modern slavery.’’; and 2
(5) in subsection (d)(1), by striking ‘‘2018 3
through 2021’’ and inserting ‘‘2025 through 2029, 4
of which $35,000,000 is authorized to be appro-5
priated for each fiscal year for the Office of Victims 6
of Crime Housing Assistance Grants for Victims of 7
Human Trafficking’’. 8
SEC. 302. EXTENSION OF AUTHORIZATIONS UNDER THE 9
INTERNATIONAL MEGAN’S LAW. 10
Section 11 of the International Megan’s Law to Pre-11
vent Child Exploitation and Other Sexual Crimes Through 12
Advanced Notification of Traveling Sex Offenders (34 13
U.S.C. 21509) is amended by striking ‘‘2018 through 14
2021’’ and inserting ‘‘2025 through 2029’’. 15
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