119-hr-5962119th Congress

To authorize the Department of Justice and the Department of State to provide law enforcement and intelligence technical assistance, training, capacity building, and advisory support to the Government of Ukraine to achieve the exchange of prisoners of war, the release of civilian detainees, and the return of forcibly transferred Ukrainian children, and for other purposes.

Sponsored By: Representative Landsman, Greg [D-OH-1]

Introduced

Summary

Would authorize help to identify and recover abducted Ukrainian children. This bill would let the Department of Justice and the Department of State provide technical assistance, training, and advisory support to help locate, return, rehabilitate, and seek accountability for children forcibly transferred or held by Russia.

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  • Families and children: It would authorize support for medical and psychological rehabilitation, family reunification, and reintegration services such as case management, legal aid, and educational screening and placement for returned children.
  • Ukrainian prosecutors and investigators: It would authorize technical assistance, capacity building, and advisory support to Ukraine’s Office of the Prosecutor General and related bodies, including backing for the Atrocity Crimes Advisory Group to investigate and prosecute cases involving abducted children and other atrocity crimes.
  • U.S. agencies, technology, and oversight: It would authorize the use of biometric identification training, open‑source intelligence collection and analysis, secure communications, and database management. It would allow coordination with nongovernmental organizations and grants, and would require briefings to congressional foreign affairs committees within 30 days after deciding to provide assistance and reports within 60 days after enactment on current and planned support and on aligning sanctions regimes.

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U.S. help to recover abducted Ukrainian children

If enacted, DOJ and State would give Ukraine technical help, training, and advice. The focus would be POW exchanges, freeing civilian detainees, and returning abducted Ukrainian children. Help could include biometric ID training, open-source intelligence, secure communications, and database security. State could fund medical and mental care, family reunification, and reintegration services for returned children, working with NGOs. State could support the Atrocity Crimes Advisory Group, and DOJ aid would run through its overseas prosecutorial training office and the Embassy legal adviser in Kyiv. Within 30 days after deciding aid in a listed category, State would brief key committees on amounts, aid types, and any technology used. Within 60 days after enactment, reports would outline current and planned programs and support to investigate and prosecute atrocity crimes. No funding amount is named; future appropriations would set the scale.

Sponsors & CoSponsors

Sponsor

Landsman, Greg [D-OH-1]

OH • D

Cosponsors

  • Rep. Keating, William R. [D-MA-9]

    MA • D

    Sponsored 11/7/2025

  • Rep. Fitzpatrick, Brian K. [R-PA-1]

    PA • R

    Sponsored 11/7/2025

  • Rep. Wilson, Joe [R-SC-2]

    SC • R

    Sponsored 11/7/2025

  • Rep. Stanton, Greg [D-AZ-4]

    AZ • D

    Sponsored 2/24/2026

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