Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act of 2025 passed the House 75 days after introduction and awaits a vote in the Senate
Written by the Congressional Research Service [2]. 150 words.
Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act of 2025 This bill requires the President to impose sanctions on persons (individuals and entities) involved in forced organ trafficking and authorizes the Department of State to deny or revoke the passports of individuals convicted of certain crimes related to organ trafficking. Specifically, the President must report to Congress a list of persons that facilitate (1) forced organ harvesting, or (2) trafficking in persons for organ harvesting. For each person on the list, the President must impose property- and visa-blocking sanctions. Furthermore, the State Department may deny or revoke the passport of an individual who has been convicted of a federal crime of knowingly transferring any human organ for valuable consideration for use in human transplantation, if the individual (1) is subject to imprisonment or supervised release resulting from that conviction, and (2) used a passport or crossed an international border when committing that crime.
- Committees
- House Foreign Affairs Committee
House Judiciary Committee
Senate Foreign Relations Committee - Policy area
- International Affairs: 94 of 4,008 bills became law, 113th–118th (2.3%)
- Sponsor
- 15 of 282 bills enacted since 2013
- Text versions
- 3, from introduced in house to referred in senate · 1,629 words
- Subjects
- Congressional oversightHuman traffickingOrgan and tissue donation and transplantationSanctionsSmuggling and traffickingVisas and passports
- Latest action
- May 8, 2025: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
- Records
- Congress.gov · Bill text
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