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Preventing Child Trafficking Act of 2025

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This Act may be cited as the Preventing Child Trafficking Act of 2025.
In this Act, the term anti-trafficking recommendations means the recommendations set forth in the report of the Government Accountability Office entitled Child Trafficking: Addressing Challenges to Public Awareness and Survivor Support, which was published on December 11, 2023.
The Office for Victims of Crime of the Department of Justice, in coordination with the Office on Trafficking in Persons of the Administration for Children and Families, shall continue implementing the anti-trafficking recommendations by—
working together, in accordance with the leading collaboration practices referenced in GAO–24–106038, to develop and implement strategies to prevent child trafficking and support child trafficking survivors; and
establishing achievable performance goals and targets for anti-trafficking programs for children that reflect leading practices, such as being objective, measurable, and quantifiable, using baseline data from program grantees.
Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of the Office for Victims of Crime shall submit a report to the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate and Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives that explicitly describes the steps taken pursuant to subsection (a).

Legislative Timeline

9 actions
  1. Dec 17, 2025 Senate
    Message on Senate action sent to the House.
  2. Dec 17, 2025 House
    Received in the House.
  3. Dec 17, 2025 House
    Held at the desk.
  4. Dec 16, 2025
    Senate Committee on the Judiciary discharged by Unanimous Consent.
  5. Dec 16, 2025 Senate
    Senate Committee on the Judiciary discharged by Unanimous Consent.
  6. Dec 16, 2025
    Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.
  7. Dec 16, 2025 Senate
    Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S8753-8754; text: CR S8754)
  8. Mar 13, 2025
    Introduced in Senate
  9. Mar 13, 2025 Senate
    Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
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