# 119-hr-4113: Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act of 2025

119-hr-4113, 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 (as of 2026-04-21).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-hr-4113
- Congress: 119
- Title: Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act of 2025
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2025-06-24
- Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Christopher H. [R-NJ-4] (R-NJ)
- Cosponsors: 2
- Policy area: International Affairs
- Touches household money: no
- Last recorded action: 2026-04-21

## Summary

**Reauthorizes and expands U.S. anti‑trafficking funding and standards.** This bill would update how the U.S. tracks and funds efforts to prevent trafficking, tighten foreign assistance guardrails to avoid creating new vulnerabilities, and add new reporting on organ removal trafficking. - Would increase support for victims and service providers by raising authorized funding levels for 2025–2029, including an authorization of about $111 million for relevant programs and a cap allowing up to $37.5 million per year to end modern slavery. - Would change U.S. foreign assistance rules to add explicit counter‑trafficking requirements, require planning to avoid increasing trafficking in disaster or vulnerability contexts, and preserve narrow exceptions for security and humanitarian needs. - Would tighten accountability and public reporting by renaming and sharpening the Tier 2 watch list and its criteria, requiring the State Department to flag countries needing special scrutiny, adding required reporting on trafficking for organ removal, mandating a printed annual Trafficking in Persons report, and extending certain grant deadlines to 2025 and 2029 while requiring competitive grants. *If enacted, this bill would raise authorized funding for anti‑trafficking programs compared with prior levels and increase federal spending.*

## Cosponsors (2)

- Rep. Mfume, Kweisi [D-MD-7] (D-MD), 2025-06-24T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Salazar, Maria Elvira [R-FL-27] (R-FL), 2025-06-24T00:00:00.000Z

## Provisions PRIA read

- More anti‑trafficking funding and grants: benefit, high. This bill would authorize more money for U.S. anti‑trafficking programs for fiscal years 2025–2029. It would authorize $23.092 million a year for one account and $111 million a year for a broader account. Of the $111 million line, no more than $37.5 million a year could fund programs to end modern…
- New Tier 2 country watch list: benefit, medium. This bill would rename the statute's "special watch list" as the "Tier 2 watch list." The Secretary of State would have to send that list to Congress when country determinations are submitted. The list would target countries with very large or rising trafficking victim counts and weak government re…
- Report trafficking for organ removal: benefit, low. If enacted, this bill would add trafficking for organ removal to the annual Trafficking in Persons report. The report would have to include documented cases and what governments are doing to prevent and fix this crime. This reporting rule would begin with the first full TIP reporting period after t…
- Tighter anti‑trafficking rules for U.S. foreign aid: mixed, medium. This bill would bar most nonhumanitarian, nontrade foreign aid to a country's central government until it meets trafficking standards or makes major efforts to comply. The bill would also list many exceptions, like disaster aid, Food for Peace, some health programs, migration and refugee aid, and N…

## Related bills

- 119-hr-3151: SHIPS for America Act of 2025
- 119-hr-6644: 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act
- 119-hr-1229: United States-Israel Defense Partnership Act of 2025
- 119-hr-1144: 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
- 119-hr-2796: Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act of 2025

## Sources
- [119-hr-4113 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4113)

## Related
- [119-hr-3151: SHIPS for America Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-3151)
- [119-hr-6644: 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-6644)
- [119-hr-1229: United States-Israel Defense Partnership Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-1229)
- [119-hr-1144: Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorizatio…](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-1144)
- [119-hr-2961: Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorizatio…](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-2961)
- [119-hr-2796: Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorizatio…](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-2796)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-4113 (as of 2026-04-21).