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Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act of 2025
This bill reauthorizes and expands federal anti-trafficking programs through 2029 to better protect at-risk youth and support survivors. It awards grants to elementary and secondary schools in high-risk areas to train staff, parents, and students to recognize human trafficking and online exploitation. For adult trafficking survivors, the bill funds up to five years of individualized services, including job training, education, mental health aid, and legal assistance to expunge nonviolent criminal records resulting from their victimization. It also increases funding for the National Human Trafficking Hotline and survivor housing while restricting non-humanitarian foreign aid to countries that fail to combat human trafficking.
People affected—not determinable from the text provided
Fiscal magnitude$823.8Mprovisional · pending reviewSum of explicit annual authorization amounts in Sec. 301 for FY 2025–2029: $23M/year for State Dept Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking ($115M), $30.755M/year for HHS programs ($153.775M), and $111M/year for international assistance ($555M), totaling $823,775,000 over five years. Additional authorizations (DOJ programs and International Megan's Law) extend existing frameworks without full top-line figures in the text.
Reach43provisional · pending reviewrigor: heuristic llm
What this bill touches.
Aid & alliances+30Public school funding+20Sentencing & corrections+15Welfare & anti-poverty+30
Who it helps · who it burdens.
Who it helps
- Adult human trafficking survivorsEligible adult victims of human trafficking gain access to up to five years of comprehensive support services, including education, job skills training, life-skills classes, nonviolent criminal record expungement assistance, credit repair, mental health aid, and housing assistance grants (Sec. 102, Sec. 301(5)).
- Local educational agenciesSchool districts, especially those serving areas with high rates of child trafficking or partnering with anti-trafficking entities, are prioritized to receive federal grants to implement evidence-based trafficking prevention and recognition training for staff, students, and guardians (Sec. 101(a)).
- Anti-trafficking nonprofit organizations and service providersNonprofit service providers and anti-trafficking organizations become eligible for cooperative agreements and grant-funded partnerships to deliver education, training, and survivor reintegration services (Sec. 101(a), Sec. 102(d)).
Who it burdens
- Foreign governments failing to meet anti-trafficking standardsForeign central governments placed on Tier 2 Watch Lists or failing to meet minimum standards to combat severe forms of human trafficking face restrictions on receiving nonhumanitarian, nontrade-related U.S. foreign aid and exchange program funding (Sec. 202, Sec. 204).
- Department of Health and Human ServicesMust collect demographic data on at-risk and exploited students, establish the survivor employment and education program, and produce detailed annual public reports to Congress on grant effectiveness and identified victims (Sec. 101(a)(5)(G)-(H), Sec. 102).
- Department of StateRequired to expand the annual Trafficking in Persons report to include data on organ harvesting trafficking and must publish and distribute a physical hardcopy format of the report to the public (Sec. 205, Sec. 208).