# 119-hr-2961: Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act of 2025

119-hr-2961, 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-2961
- Congress: 119
- Title: Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act of 2025
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2025-04-17
- Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Christopher H. [R-NJ-4] (R-NJ)
- Cosponsors: 11
- Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
- Touches household money: yes
- Last recorded action: 2026-04-21

## 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. - 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.*

## Cosponsors (11)

- Rep. Mfume, Kweisi [D-MD-7] (D-MD), 2025-04-17T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. McCaul, Michael T. [R-TX-10] (R-TX), 2025-04-17T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Salazar, Maria Elvira [R-FL-27] (R-FL), 2025-04-17T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Jack, Brian [R-GA-3] (R-GA), 2025-04-17T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Cuellar, Henry [D-TX-28] (D-TX), 2025-04-17T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Wagner, Ann [R-MO-2] (R-MO), 2025-04-17T00:00:00.000Z
- Del. Radewagen, Aumua Amata Coleman [R-AS-At Large] (R-AS), 2025-04-17T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Krishnamoorthi, Raja [D-IL-8] (D-IL), 2025-04-17T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Crow, Jason [D-CO-6] (D-CO), 2025-06-06T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Suozzi, Thomas R. [D-NY-3] (D-NY), 2025-06-09T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Lynch, Stephen F. [D-MA-8] (D-MA), 2025-11-07T00:00:00.000Z

## Provisions PRIA read

- Job and school help for survivors: benefit, medium. 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,…
- More school training to prevent trafficking: benefit, medium. 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…
- Funding for trafficking hotline and outreach: benefit, low. 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…
- More housing grants for trafficking survivors: benefit, low. 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: benefit, low. 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.

## Related bills

- 119-hr-1422: Enhanced Iran Sanctions Act of 2025
- 119-hr-6130: ASAP Act
- 119-hr-1144: Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act of 2025
- 119-hr-1262: Mikaela Naylon Give Kids a Chance Act
- 119-hr-2102: Major Richard Star Act
- 119-hr-909: Crime Victims Fund Stabilization Act of 2025

## Sources
- [119-hr-2961 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/2961)

## Related
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- [119-hr-6130: ASAP Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-6130)
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- [119-hr-1262: Mikaela Naylon Give Kids a Chance Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-1262)
- [119-hr-2102: Major Richard Star Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-2102)
- [119-hr-909: Crime Victims Fund Stabilization Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-909)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-2961 (as of 2026-04-21).