Save Our Girls from Sex Trafficking Act of 2025
Sponsored By: Representative Rep. Wilson, Frederica S. [D-FL-24]
Introduced
Summary
Creates a coordinated federal effort to prevent and respond to child sex trafficking. The bill would set up an interagency task force led by the Attorney General, require a study due three years after enactment, and establish grant programs across Education, Health and Human Services, Labor, and Justice to fund prevention, victim identification, and long-term survivor support.
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- Families and children: The Department of Education would fund local school grants and HHS would fund foster-care agency grants to teach children about trafficking. Recipients must partner with victim-centered organizations.
- Law enforcement and prosecutors: The Department of Justice would fund training to identify trafficking victims, screen arrested youth, and create pre-trial diversion programs. Grants may be increased up to 20% for recipients that use victim-centered multidisciplinary teams or maintain policies not to prosecute trafficking victims.
- Survivors and service providers: HHS and the Department of Labor would fund long-term and transitional housing, trauma-informed counseling, care facilities, and job skills training and placement to support recovery and economic stability.
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Analyzed Economic Effects
5 provisions identified: 5 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
Long-term care and housing grants
If enacted, HHS would be able to give grants to nonprofits to provide long-term care facilities for child trafficking victims. Grants could also fund long-term counseling, trauma-informed mental health services, and long-term or transitional housing for survivors. Nonprofit applicants would apply to HHS in the time and manner the Secretary requires.
Job training for survivors and youth
If enacted, the Department of Labor would be able to award grants to nonprofits for job skills training and job placement help for survivors of child trafficking and children at risk. Nonprofits would apply to the Secretary of Labor in the form and at the times the Secretary requires. The grants aim to help survivors and at-risk youth find and keep work.
Federal task force on child trafficking
If enacted, the Attorney General would create an interagency task force on domestic child human trafficking. The task force would include the Secretaries of Health and Human Services, the Treasury, Labor, Education, Housing and Urban Development, and Homeland Security. It would coordinate prevention, demand-reduction, awareness education, identification of survivors, links to service providers, screening of arrested youth, and diversion to non-judicial rehabilitation services.
Grants to train police and prosecutors
If enacted, the Attorney General would make grants to States, local, and Tribal governments to train police and prosecutors to identify child trafficking victims. Grants could fund pre-trial diversion programs and protections for victims who testify. The Attorney General could raise a grant by up to 20 percent if recipients work with victim-centered teams, run diversion or identification programs, or have a policy not to prosecute victims. State or local chief executives would apply in the form and at the times the Attorney General requires.
School and foster-care trafficking lessons
If enacted, the Department of Education would be able to grant money to local schools to teach students about child human trafficking. The Department of Health and Human Services would be able to grant money to agencies that care for foster children for the same education. Grant applicants and recipients would need to work with organizations experienced in victim-centered approaches.
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Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Rep. Wilson, Frederica S. [D-FL-24]
FL • D
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
No roll call votes available for this bill.
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