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Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act of 2025
This bill targets forced organ harvesting and international organ trafficking by imposing financial and travel penalties on foreign officials and individuals who facilitate the practice. Those identified by the U.S. government will have their U.S. property and assets frozen, will be denied entry into the country, and will have existing visas revoked. The bill also allows the State Department to deny or revoke passports for Americans convicted of federal organ-buying crimes who crossed borders to commit them, and it requires annual human rights reporting on organ harvesting abroad.
People affected—The text does not specify or quantify the number of individuals or entities to be designated on the sanctions list or affected by passport restrictions.
Fiscal magnitude—The bill contains no direct appropriations, authorizations of funding, or specified fees.
Reach38provisional · pending reviewrigor: heuristic llm
What this bill touches.
Aid & alliances+22Sentencing & corrections−15Enforcement & security−28
Who it helps · who it burdens.
Who it burdens
- Individuals convicted of federal human organ traffickingMay have their U.S. passports denied or revoked by the Secretary of State if they are serving a prison sentence, parole, or supervised release and used a passport or crossed an international border to commit the crime (Sec. 4).
- Persons and entities facilitating forced organ harvesting or traffickingSubject to mandatory freezing and blocking of all U.S.-based property and financial assets, as well as denial of U.S. entry and immediate revocation of visas for listed individuals (Sec. 6(a), 6(b)).
- Violators of organ trafficking sanctionsSubject to federal civil and criminal penalties under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act for violating, attempting to violate, or conspiring to violate sanctions under the bill (Sec. 6(d)(2)).
- Department of StateRequired to assess forced organ harvesting and human organ trafficking in every foreign country as part of its annual human rights reports to Congress (Sec. 5).