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GovGreed Synthesis · 2025-12-17
This bill directs the Department of Justice's Office for Victims of Crime, in coordination with the Administration for Children and Families' Office on Trafficking in Persons, to continue implementing specific anti-child-trafficking recommendations from a 2023 Government Accountability Office report. It requires these offices to work together on prevention and survivor support strategies and to set performance goals for related programs. The bill also mandates a report to Congress within 180 days detailing the steps taken.
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2025-12-17
Held at the desk.
2025-12-17
Received in the House.
2025-12-17
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
2025-12-16
Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S8753-8754; text: CR S8754)
2025-12-16
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.
2025-12-16
Senate Committee on the Judiciary discharged by Unanimous Consent.
2025-12-16
Senate Committee on the Judiciary discharged by Unanimous Consent.
2025-03-13
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
2025-03-13
Introduced in Senate
Full Bill Text
119th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 1049 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES AN ACT To direct the Office for Victims of Crime of the Department of Justice to continue implementing the anti-trafficking recommendations of the Government Accountability Office and to report to Congress regarding such implementation. 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Preventing Child Trafficking Act of 2025 . 2. Defined term 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. 3. Continued implementation of anti-trafficking programs for children (a) In general 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— (1) 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 (2) 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. (b) Report 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). Passed the Senate December 16, 2025. Secretary
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