Summary
This legislation aims to extend and update several federal programs dedicated to fighting human trafficking on a global scale. If enacted, it would provide funding through fiscal year 2029 for various government agencies to track trafficking trends, reduce modern slavery, and enforce International Megan’s Law, which requires registered sex offenders to report their international travel plans. The bill also proposes a new program within the Department of Health and Human Services specifically designed to help trafficking survivors successfully reintegrate into society.
Beyond domestic programs, the bill would change how the United States monitors and pressures other countries to improve their anti-trafficking efforts. It proposes stricter criteria for how countries are ranked in official reports and would require the State Department to specifically track trafficking related to the removal of human organs. Additionally, the bill would require that anti-trafficking strategies be more deeply integrated into U.S. foreign aid decisions, potentially affecting how the government allocates assistance to other nations based on their human rights records.
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Lifecycle of the Bill
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
Jul 22, 2025
Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
Jul 22, 2025
HearingHouseMarkup
Jul 22, 2025 · 14:00
Various Measures
Summary
On July 22, the House Foreign Affairs Committee marked up and advanced six bills concerning the foreign military sales process and strengthening the US defense industrial base. The suite of measures, spearheaded by the committee's bipartisan Foreign Arms Sales Task Force, codify much-needed reforms to the foreign arms sales process outlined in President Trump's executive order in April with tailored legislation to improve transparency, efficiency, and ease cooperation with foreign partners. House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast formally established the task force, which is being led by Chairman Ryan Zinke (R-MT) and Ranking Member Madeleine Dean (D-PA), in March to ensure the foreign arms sales process meets the demands of the future. H.R. 3613, the Streamlining Foreign Military Sales Act, would raise the thresholds at which the Administration must notify or report to the Congress on foreign military sales and direct commercial sales of defense articles and services to foreign countries. The committee also advanced bills on South Africa bilateral relations, Sudan peace efforts, and US-Japan-South Korea trilateral cooperation. H.R. 2633 would require the Administration to determine whether South Africa has undermined U.S. national security or foreign policy interests and to comprehensively review the bilateral relationship between the United States and South Africa, and would require the Administration to report to the Congress on its findings. H.R. 3429 would direct the Secretary of State to negotiate with the governments of Japan and the Republic of Korea to form a joint inter-parliamentary working group on matters of shared interests and would authorize the appointment of up to eight Members of Congress to represent U.S. interests in the inter-parliamentary working group. The hearing did not include formal witness testimony, and the bills advanced do not guarantee passage in the full House.
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Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
Jul 22, 2025
Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
Jul 22, 2025
HearingHouseMarkup
Jul 22, 2025 · 14:00
Various Measures
Summary
On July 22, the House Foreign Affairs Committee marked up and advanced six bills concerning the foreign military sales process and strengthening the US defense industrial base. The suite of measures, spearheaded by the committee's bipartisan Foreign Arms Sales Task Force, codify much-needed reforms to the foreign arms sales process outlined in President Trump's executive order in April with tailored legislation to improve transparency, efficiency, and ease cooperation with foreign partners. House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast formally established the task force, which is being led by Chairman Ryan Zinke (R-MT) and Ranking Member Madeleine Dean (D-PA), in March to ensure the foreign arms sales process meets the demands of the future. H.R. 3613, the Streamlining Foreign Military Sales Act, would raise the thresholds at which the Administration must notify or report to the Congress on foreign military sales and direct commercial sales of defense articles and services to foreign countries. The committee also advanced bills on South Africa bilateral relations, Sudan peace efforts, and US-Japan-South Korea trilateral cooperation. H.R. 2633 would require the Administration to determine whether South Africa has undermined U.S. national security or foreign policy interests and to comprehensively review the bilateral relationship between the United States and South Africa, and would require the Administration to report to the Congress on its findings. H.R. 3429 would direct the Secretary of State to negotiate with the governments of Japan and the Republic of Korea to form a joint inter-parliamentary working group on matters of shared interests and would authorize the appointment of up to eight Members of Congress to represent U.S. interests in the inter-parliamentary working group. The hearing did not include formal witness testimony, and the bills advanced do not guarantee passage in the full House.
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Congress
119th Congress
Introduced
Feb 7, 2025
