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HR2961119th CongressWALLET

Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act of 2025

Sponsored By: Representative Smith (NJ)

Introduced

Summary

This bill would reauthorize and expand federal anti-trafficking prevention and survivor services. It renames a prevention grant program, creates a new survivors' employment and education program, and extends funding through 2029.

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  • Creates the Frederick Douglass Human Trafficking Survivors Employment and Education Program to provide integrated supports like basic education, job and vocational training, life-skills coaching, interview help, expungement assistance, scholarships, and case management. Services are limited to a cumulative 5-year period per eligible individual.
  • Renames and refocuses the prevention grants as Frederick Douglass Human Trafficking Prevention Education Grants and directs priority to local educational agencies in high-intensity child sex or labor trafficking areas. Grants must use trauma-informed, age-appropriate "train the trainers" models and target homeless youth, foster youth, runaway youth, and youth involved in child welfare.
  • Extends authorizations through 2029 and sets funding levels that include about $30.8 million per year for related programs with $5.0 million per year specifically for the national hotline and cybersecurity and public education. It also raises housing assistance grants to $35.0 million per year and extends International Megan's Law authorizations through 2029.

*Would authorize roughly $30.8 million per year 2025–2029 plus $35.0 million per year for housing assistance, increasing federal spending authorizations through 2029.*

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

5 provisions identified: 5 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.

Job and school help for survivors

This bill would create a program to help adult trafficking survivors get education and jobs. You would need to be 18 or older and eligible under section 107(b). Services could include basic education, job training, diploma help, college and scholarship help, expungement and credit repair, coaching, and case management. Help could last for up to a total of 5 years per person. HHS would fund qualified groups to run it, if money is appropriated.

More school training to prevent trafficking

This bill would rename a school grant as the Frederick Douglass Human Trafficking Prevention Education Grants. It would prioritize school districts in areas with high child sex or labor trafficking. Extra priority would go to districts that partner with survivor-informed nonprofits, law enforcement, and tech or social media firms. Grantees would use age-appropriate, trauma-informed training for K–12 students, families, and school staff, with a train-the-trainers model. Programs would be scalable, posted online, and focus on at-risk youth such as homeless and foster youth. HHS would report results 540 days after enactment and every year after.

Funding for trafficking hotline and outreach

This bill would authorize about $30.755 million each year from FY2025 to FY2029 for trafficking victim grant programs. Of that, $5 million a year would be for the National Human Trafficking Hotline and for cybersecurity and public education. These activities would be planned with the Department of Homeland Security. This only authorizes money; Congress would still need to appropriate funds.

More housing grants for trafficking survivors

This bill would authorize $35 million each year from FY2025 to FY2029 for housing help for trafficking victims. The Office for Victims of Crime would award the grants. This is an authorization only; Congress would still need to approve the funding and program rules would apply.

Extend International Megan's Law through 2029

This bill would extend the authorization for International Megan's Law activities through FY2029. It would update the approved years to FY2025 through FY2029. It would not set new funding or spend money by itself.

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Sponsors & CoSponsors

Sponsor

Smith (NJ)

NJ • R

Cosponsors

  • Rep. Mfume, Kweisi [D-MD-7]

    MD • D

    Sponsored 4/17/2025

  • McCaul

    TX • R

    Sponsored 4/17/2025

  • Salazar

    FL • R

    Sponsored 4/17/2025

  • Jack

    GA • R

    Sponsored 4/17/2025

  • Rep. Cuellar, Henry [D-TX-28]

    TX • D

    Sponsored 4/17/2025

  • Rep. Wagner, Ann [R-MO-2]

    MO • R

    Sponsored 4/17/2025

  • Del. Radewagen, Aumua Amata Coleman [R-AS-At Large]

    AS • R

    Sponsored 4/17/2025

  • Rep. Krishnamoorthi, Raja [D-IL-8]

    IL • D

    Sponsored 4/17/2025

  • Rep. Crow, Jason [D-CO-6]

    CO • D

    Sponsored 6/6/2025

  • Rep. Suozzi, Thomas R. [D-NY-3]

    NY • D

    Sponsored 6/9/2025

  • Rep. Lynch, Stephen F. [D-MA-8]

    MA • D

    Sponsored 11/7/2025

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