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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 1503
To combat forced organ harvesting and trafficking in persons for purposes
of the removal of organs, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
FEBRUARY21, 2025
Mr. S
MITHof New Jersey (for himself and Mr. KEATING) introduced the fol-
lowing bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and
in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subse-
quently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such
provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned
A BILL
To combat forced organ harvesting and trafficking in persons
for purposes of the removal of organs, 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 ‘‘Stop Forced Organ 4
Harvesting Act of 2025’’. 5
SEC. 2. STATEMENT OF POLICY. 6
It shall be the policy of the United States— 7
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(1) to combat international trafficking in per-1
sons for purposes of the removal of organs; 2
(2) to promote the establishment of voluntary 3
organ donation systems with effective enforcement 4
mechanisms in bilateral diplomatic meetings and in 5
international health forums; 6
(3) to promote the dignity and security of 7
human life in accordance with the Universal Dec-8
laration of Human Rights, adopted on December 10, 9
1948; and 10
(4) to hold accountable persons implicated, in-11
cluding members of the Chinese Communist Party, 12
in forced organ harvesting and trafficking in persons 13
for purposes of the removal of organs. 14
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 15
In this Act: 16
(1) A
PPROPRIATE COMMITTEES OF CON -17
GRESS.—The term ‘‘appropriate committees of Con-18
gress’’ means— 19
(A) the Committee on Foreign Relations 20
and the Committee on the Judiciary of the Sen-21
ate; and 22
(B) the Committee on Foreign Affairs and 23
the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of 24
Representatives. 25
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(2) FORCED ORGAN HARVESTING .—The term 1
‘‘forced organ harvesting’’ means the removal of one 2
or more organs from a person by means of coercion, 3
abduction, deception, fraud, or abuse of power or a 4
position of vulnerability. 5
(3) O
RGAN.—The term ‘‘organ’’ has the mean-6
ing given the term ‘‘human organ’’ in section 7
301(c)(1) of the National Organ Transplant Act (42 8
U.S.C. 274e(c)(1)). 9
(4) T
RAFFICKING IN PERSONS FOR PURPOSES 10
OF THE REMOVAL OF ORGANS .—The term ‘‘traf-11
ficking in persons for purposes of the removal of or-12
gans’’ means the recruitment, transportation, trans-13
fer, harboring, or receipt of a person for the purpose 14
of removing one or more of such person’s organs, by 15
means of— 16
(A) coercion; 17
(B) abduction; 18
(C) deception; 19
(D) fraud; 20
(E) abuse of power or a position of vulner-21
ability; or 22
(F) transfer of payments or benefits to 23
achieve the consent of a person having control 24
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over a person described in the matter preceding 1
subparagraph (A). 2
SEC. 4. AUTHORITY TO DENY OR REVOKE PASSPORTS. 3
(a) I
NGENERAL.—The Secretary of State may 4
refuse to issue a passport to any individual who has been 5
convicted of an offense under section 301 of the National 6
Organ Transplant Act (42 U.S.C. 274e) and is subject 7
to imprisonment or parole or other supervised release as 8
the result of such conviction if such individual, in the com-9
mission of such an offense, used a passport or crossed an 10
international border. 11
(b) R
EVOCATION.—The Secretary of State may re-12
voke a passport previously issued to any individual de-13
scribed in subsection (a). 14
SEC. 5. REPORTS ON FORCED ORGAN HARVESTING AND 15
TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS FOR PURPOSES 16
OF THE REMOVAL OF ORGANS IN FOREIGN 17
COUNTRIES. 18
The Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2151 19
et seq.) is amended— 20
(1) in section 116 (22 U.S.C. 2151n), by add-21
ing at the end the following: 22
‘‘(h) F
ORCEDORGANHARVESTING AND TRAF-23
FICKING INPERSONS FORPURPOSES OF THE REMOVAL 24
OFORGANS.— 25
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‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The report required by 1
subsection (d) shall include an assessment of forced 2
organ harvesting and trafficking in persons for pur-3
poses of the removal of organs in each foreign coun-4
try. 5
‘‘(2) D
EFINITIONS.—In this subsection: 6
‘‘(A) F
ORCED ORGAN HARVESTING .—The 7
term ‘forced organ harvesting’ means the re-8
moval of one or more organs from a person by 9
means of coercion, abduction, deception, fraud, 10
or abuse of power or a position of vulnerability. 11
‘‘(B) O
RGAN.—The term ‘organ’ has the 12
meaning given the term ‘human organ’ in sec-13
tion 301(c)(1) of the National Organ Trans-14
plant Act (42 U.S.C. 274e(c)(1)). 15
‘‘(C) T
RAFFICKING IN PERSONS FOR PUR -16
POSES OF THE REMOVAL OF ORGANS .—The 17
term ‘trafficking in persons for purposes of the 18
removal of organs’ means the recruitment, 19
transportation, transfer, harboring, or receipt of 20
a person for the purpose of removing one or 21
more of such person’s organs, by means of— 22
‘‘(i) coercion; 23
‘‘(ii) abduction; 24
‘‘(iii) deception; 25
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‘‘(iv) fraud; 1
‘‘(v) abuse of power or a position of 2
vulnerability; or 3
‘‘(vi) transfer of payments or benefits 4
to achieve the consent of a person having 5
control over a person described in the mat-6
ter preceding clause (i).’’; and 7
(2) in section 502B (22 U.S.C. 2304)— 8
(A) by redesignating the second subsection 9
(i) (relating to child marriage status) as sub-10
section (j); and 11
(B) by adding at the end the following: 12
‘‘(k) F
ORCEDORGANHARVESTING AND TRAF-13
FICKING INPERSONS FORPURPOSES OF THE REMOVAL 14
OFORGANS.— 15
‘‘(1) I
N GENERAL.—The report required by 16
subsection (b) shall include an assessment of forced 17
organ harvesting and trafficking in persons for pur-18
poses of the removal of organs in each foreign coun-19
try. 20
‘‘(2) D
EFINITIONS.—In this subsection, the 21
terms ‘forced organ harvesting’, ‘organ’, and ‘traf-22
ficking in persons for purposes of the removal of or-23
gans’ have the meanings given those terms in section 24
116(h)(2).’’. 25
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SEC. 6. IMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS WITH RESPECT TO 1
FORCED ORGAN HARVESTING OR TRAF-2
FICKING IN PERSONS FOR PURPOSES OF THE 3
REMOVAL OF ORGANS. 4
(a) L
ISTREQUIRED.—Not later than 180 days after 5
the date of the enactment of this Act, the President shall 6
submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a list 7
of each person that the President determines funds, spon-8
sors, or otherwise facilitates forced organ harvesting or 9
trafficking in persons for purposes of the removal of or-10
gans. 11
(b) I
MPOSITION OFSANCTIONS.—The President shall 12
impose the following sanctions with respect to a person 13
on the list required by subsection (a): 14
(1) P
ROPERTY BLOCKING.—The President shall 15
exercise all of the powers granted by the Inter-16
national Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 17
U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (except that the requirements 18
of section 202 of such Act (50 U.S.C. 1701) shall 19
not apply) to the extent necessary to block and pro-20
hibit all transactions in all property and interests in 21
property of the person if such property and interests 22
in property are in the United States, come within 23
the United States, or are or come within the posses-24
sion or control of a United States person. 25
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(2) ALIENS INADMISSIBLE FOR VISAS , ADMIS-1
SION, OR PAROLE.— 2
(A) V
ISAS, ADMISSION, OR PAROLE.—In 3
the case of an individual, that individual is— 4
(i) inadmissible to the United States; 5
(ii) ineligible to receive a visa or other 6
documentation to enter the United States; 7
and 8
(iii) otherwise ineligible to be admitted 9
or paroled into the United States or to re-10
ceive any other benefit under the Immigra-11
tion and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101 et 12
seq.). 13
(B) C
URRENT VISAS REVOKED .— 14
(i) I
N GENERAL.—The visa or other 15
entry documentation of the individual shall 16
be revoked, regardless of when such visa or 17
other entry documentation is or was 18
issued. 19
(ii) I
MMEDIATE EFFECT .—A revoca-20
tion under clause (i) shall— 21
(I) take effect immediately; and 22
(II) automatically cancel any 23
other valid visa or entry documenta-24
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tion that is in the individual’s posses-1
sion. 2
(c) E
XCEPTIONS.— 3
(1) E
XCEPTION RELATING TO IMPORTATION OF 4
GOODS.— 5
(A) I
N GENERAL.—The authorities and re-6
quirements to impose sanctions under sub-7
section (b)(1) shall not include the authority or 8
a requirement to impose sanctions on the im-9
portation of goods. 10
(B) G
OOD DEFINED.—In this paragraph, 11
the term ‘‘good’’ means any article, natural or 12
manmade substance, material, supply or manu-13
factured product, including inspection and test 14
equipment, and excluding technical data. 15
(2) E
XCEPTION TO COMPLY WITH INTER -16
NATIONAL OBLIGATIONS .—Subsection (b)(2) shall 17
not apply to the admission of an individual if the ad-18
mission of the individual is necessary to comply with 19
United States obligations under the Agreement be-20
tween the United Nations and the United States of 21
America regarding the Headquarters of the United 22
Nations, signed at Lake Success June 26, 1947, and 23
entered into force November 21, 1947, under the 24
Convention on Consular Relations, done at Vienna 25
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April 24, 1963, and entered into force March 19, 1
1967, or under other applicable international agree-2
ments or treaties. 3
(3) E
XCEPTION RELATING TO THE PROVISION 4
OF HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE .—Sanctions under 5
this section may not be imposed with respect to 6
transactions or the facilitation of transactions for— 7
(A) the sale of agricultural commodities, 8
food, or medicine; 9
(B) the provision of vital humanitarian as-10
sistance; 11
(C) financial transactions relating to vital 12
humanitarian assistance or for vital humani-13
tarian purposes; or 14
(D) transporting goods or services that are 15
necessary to carry out operations relating to 16
vital humanitarian assistance. 17
(4) W
AIVER.—The President may, on a case- 18
by-case basis and for periods not to exceed 180 days 19
each, waive the application of sanctions or restric-20
tions imposed with respect to a person under this 21
section if the President certifies to the appropriate 22
committees of Congress not later than 15 days be-23
fore such waiver is to take effect that the waiver is 24
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vital to the national security interests of the United 1
States. 2
(d) I
MPLEMENTATION; PENALTIES.— 3
(1) I
MPLEMENTATION.—The President may ex-4
ercise all authorities provided under sections 203 5
and 205 of the International Emergency Economic 6
Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1702 and 1704) to carry out 7
this section. 8
(2) P
ENALTIES.—A person that violates, at-9
tempts to violate, conspires to violate, or causes a 10
violation of this section or any regulation, license, or 11
order issued to carry out this section shall be subject 12
to the penalties set forth in subsections (b) and (c) 13
of section 206 of the International Emergency Eco-14
nomic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1705) to the same ex-15
tent as a person that commits an unlawful act de-16
scribed in subsection (a) of that section. 17
(e) D
EFINITIONS.—In this section— 18
(1) the term ‘‘person’’— 19
(A) means an individual or entity; and 20
(B) includes a non-state actor (as such 21
term is defined in Public Law 114–281); and 22
(2) the term ‘‘United States person’’ means— 23
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(A) a United States citizen or an alien law-1
fully admitted for permanent residence to the 2
United States; or 3
(B) an entity organized under the laws of 4
the United States or any jurisdiction within the 5
United States, including a foreign branch of 6
such an entity. 7
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