# 119-hr-2796: Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act of 2025

119-hr-2796, 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 introduced; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-04-21).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-hr-2796
- Congress: 119
- Title: Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act of 2025
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2025-04-09
- Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Christopher H. [R-NJ-4] (R-NJ)
- Cosponsors: 8
- Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
- Touches household money: yes
- Last recorded action: 2026-04-21

## Summary

**Expands prevention education and survivor reintegration services to strengthen U.S. anti‑trafficking efforts.** The bill reauthorizes the Trafficking Victims Protection Act and creates two Frederick Douglass programs focused on school-based prevention and survivor employment and education. - Families and youth: Directs prevention education grants to local education agencies in areas with high child sex or labor trafficking risk and prioritizes partnerships with nonprofits, law enforcement, and technology or social media companies to address grooming and tech-enabled exploitation. - Survivors: Creates a Frederick Douglass Survivors Employment and Education Program offering trauma-informed services like basic education, vocational training, scholarships, expungement help, life skills, professional coaching, and up to a 5-year cumulative service period for eligible adult victims. - Federal programs and funding: Extends TVPA authorities through 2029 and raises annual program funding to about $30.8 million and housing assistance grants to $35.0 million to support prevention, survivor services, and program administration. *Authorizes increased federal spending through 2029, including roughly $30.8 million and $35.0 million per year for specified programs, increasing federal outlays.*

## Cosponsors (8)

- Rep. Mfume, Kweisi [D-MD-7] (D-MD), 2025-04-09T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. McCaul, Michael T. [R-TX-10] (R-TX), 2025-04-09T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Salazar, Maria Elvira [R-FL-27] (R-FL), 2025-04-09T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Jack, Brian [R-GA-3] (R-GA), 2025-04-09T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Cuellar, Henry [D-TX-28] (D-TX), 2025-04-09T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Wagner, Ann [R-MO-2] (R-MO), 2025-04-09T00:00:00.000Z
- Del. Radewagen, Aumua Amata Coleman [R-AS-At Large] (R-AS), 2025-04-09T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Krishnamoorthi, Raja [D-IL-8] (D-IL), 2025-04-09T00:00:00.000Z

## Provisions PRIA read

- More housing help for trafficking survivors: benefit, medium. If enacted, this would authorize $35 million each year from 2025 through 2029 for housing grants for trafficking victims. Nonprofits and local partners could use these grants to provide safe housing and related support. This could help survivors and families find or keep a place to live while rebui…
- Job and school help for trafficking survivors: benefit, medium. If enacted, this would create an HHS program to help adult trafficking survivors get education and work. You would qualify if you are 18 or older and eligible under TVPA section 107(b). You could receive up to five years of services like GED help, job training, life skills, counseling, record-expun…
- Extends travel alerts for sex offenders: benefit, medium. If enacted, this would extend the International Megan’s Law authorization through fiscal years 2025 to 2029. It would keep the advanced-notification system for traveling sex offenders running so law enforcement would continue to get alerts.
- School prevention and hotline funding boost: benefit, medium. If enacted, this would authorize about $30.755 million each year from 2025–2029 for anti-trafficking programs. Each year, $5 million could support the National Human Trafficking Hotline and cybersecurity and public education, in consultation with Homeland Security. It would also rename and refocus…

## Related bills

- 119-hr-2961: Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act of 2025
- 119-hr-1422: Enhanced Iran Sanctions Act of 2025
- 119-hr-1144: Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act of 2025
- 119-hr-6130: ASAP Act
- 119-hr-452: Miracle on Ice Congressional Gold Medal Act
- 119-hr-1262: Mikaela Naylon Give Kids a Chance Act

## Sources
- [119-hr-2796 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/2796)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-2796 (as of 2026-04-21).