# 119-hr-1144: Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act of 2025

119-hr-1144, Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act of 2025, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Smith, Christopher H. [R-NJ-4] (R-NJ); status in_committee; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-07-19).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-hr-1144
- Congress: 119
- Title: Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act of 2025
- Status: in_committee
- Introduced: 2025-02-07
- Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Christopher H. [R-NJ-4] (R-NJ)
- Cosponsors: 25
- Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
- Touches household money: yes
- Last recorded action: 2026-07-19

## Summary

**Strengthens survivor services and tightens foreign‑assistance rules to fight human trafficking.** It reauthorizes and expands prevention, survivor support, international tiering and reporting, and funding through FY2029. - Domestic survivors gain a new HHS employment and education program that funds scholarships, case management, expungement help, job training, and recovery services. Services are limited to a five‑year cumulative period per beneficiary. - International policy changes tighten withholding of nonhumanitarian, nontrade‑related foreign assistance to central governments until they meet trafficking standards and add reporting on trafficking for organ removal. The law also requires the annual Trafficking in Persons report be available in printed hardcopy. - Funding and grants are rebased and extended for FY2025–2029, raising the main TVPA annual baseline to $23.0 million. The bill also requires competitive awards and dedicates $5.0 million per year for the National Human Trafficking Hotline, cybersecurity, and public education. *Authorizes higher annual federal funding for TVPA programs through FY2029, increasing authorized federal spending compared with prior baselines.*

## Cosponsors (25)

- Rep. Mfume, Kweisi [D-MD-7] (D-MD), 2025-02-07T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. McCaul, Michael T. [R-TX-10] (R-TX), 2025-02-07T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Salazar, Maria Elvira [R-FL-27] (R-FL), 2025-02-07T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Jack, Brian [R-GA-3] (R-GA), 2025-02-14T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Cuellar, Henry [D-TX-28] (D-TX), 2025-02-14T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Wilson, Joe [R-SC-2] (R-SC), 2025-02-25T00:00:00.000Z
- Del. Radewagen, Aumua Amata Coleman [R-AS-At Large] (R-AS), 2025-02-25T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Valadao, David G. [R-CA-22] (R-CA), 2025-02-25T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Wagner, Ann [R-MO-2] (R-MO), 2025-03-05T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Moore, Blake D. [R-UT-1] (R-UT), 2025-03-05T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Sherman, Brad [D-CA-32] (D-CA), 2025-07-22T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Vindman, Eugene Simon [D-VA-7] (D-VA), 2025-07-23T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. McBride, Sarah [D-DE-At Large] (D-DE), 2025-08-26T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Fitzpatrick, Brian K. [R-PA-1] (R-PA), 2025-09-08T00:00:00.000Z
- Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large] (D-DC), 2025-09-15T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Whitesides, George [D-CA-27] (D-CA), 2025-09-18T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Quigley, Mike [D-IL-5] (D-IL), 2025-09-26T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Doggett, Lloyd [D-TX-37] (D-TX), 2025-10-08T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Harrigan, Pat [R-NC-10] (R-NC), 2025-10-21T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Lynch, Stephen F. [D-MA-8] (D-MA), 2025-11-07T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Johnson, Julie [D-TX-32] (D-TX), 2025-12-03T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Mackenzie, Ryan [R-PA-7] (R-PA), 2025-12-09T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Luna, Anna Paulina [R-FL-13] (R-FL), 2026-02-24T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Mills, Cory [R-FL-7] (R-FL), 2026-06-04T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Suozzi, Thomas R. [D-NY-3] (D-NY), 2026-06-30T00:00:00.000Z

## Provisions PRIA read

- More funding for victim services and housing: benefit, high. The bill would authorize victim-service funding for FY2025–FY2029: $23 million (subsection a); $30.755 million (subsection b), including $5 million for the National Human Trafficking Hotline and cybersecurity and public education; $111 million (subsection c)(1); and $35 million for housing grants.…
- New job and school help for survivors: benefit, medium. If enacted, HHS would start a Frederick Douglass program to help adult trafficking survivors get education and jobs. If you are 18 or older and eligible under TVPA section 107(b), you could enroll. Services could include literacy, ESL, job training, high school or certificates, college help and sch…
- New trafficking report details and watch list: benefit, medium. The bill would add organ-removal trafficking details to the annual Trafficking in Persons report. It would rename the “special watch list” to the “Tier 2 watch list,” update the criteria, and apply special rules to countries that stay on it for more than two years. A printed hardcopy of the report…
- Stronger anti-trafficking rules for foreign aid: benefit, medium. The bill would withhold some nonhumanitarian, nontrade U.S. aid from a country's central government until the first fiscal year after it meets minimum standards or shows strong efforts against trafficking. It would also block U.S. funding for officials from those governments to join some exchange p…
- Key anti-trafficking programs extended to 2029: benefit, low. The bill would extend the Program to End Modern Slavery through 2029. All grants would have to be competitive and follow normal congressional notice, with reports due by September 30, 2025 and September 30, 2029. It would also extend authorizations for International Megan’s Law for FY2025–FY2029, e…
- School grants to prevent trafficking: benefit, low. The bill would refocus school prevention grants on areas with high child sex or labor trafficking. Districts that partner with nonprofits, law enforcement, and tech or social media companies could get extra priority. The program would require survivor input, trainer development, and data on at-risk…

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## Sources
- [119-hr-1144 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1144)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-1144 (as of 2026-07-19).