Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act of 2023
This bill reauthorizes and enhances anti-trafficking programs through several key provisions. It establishes "Frederick Douglass Human Trafficking Prevention Education Grants" for schools to implement evidence-based, culturally responsive training for K-12 students, teachers, and school personnel on recognizing and preventing child trafficking. It also creates a Human Trafficking Survivors Employment and Education Program to help trafficking victims gain job skills, education, and life skills for self-sufficiency. The bill extends funding for these programs through 2028 with increased authorization levels and modifies international trafficking reporting standards.
Bill status
passed
3 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Sep 2023
Committee Review
Feb 2024
House Passage
Feb 2024
Senate Passage
President
Introduced Sep 29, 2023
Last action Feb 26, 2024
Floor votes · House Feb 13, 2024
How they voted
414–11
Passed · 6 other
Total votes 431
Feb 13, 2024
D
Democratic212
98% Yea
I
Independent1
100% Yea
R
Republican218
93% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
11
Key actions
2
Committee
3
Amendments
3
Feb 26, 2024
Committee
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
upper
Feb 13, 2024
Introduced
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 414 - 11 (Roll no. 41). (text: CR H565-567)
lower
Feb 13, 2024
Lower · Passed
Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 414 - 11 (Roll no. 41). (text: CR H565-567)
lower
Feb 13, 2024
Introduced
Mr. Smith (NJ) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
lower
Nov 7, 2023
Introduced
Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 44 - 0.
lower
Nov 7, 2023
Lower · Passed
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
lower
Sep 29, 2023
Committee
Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, and the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
lower
Sep 29, 2023
Introduced
Introduced in House
lower
1 primary · 23 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Christopher H. Smith
RRepublican
Co
Ann Wagner
RRepublican
Co
Aumua Amata Coleman Radewagen
RRepublican
Co
Cory Mills
RRepublican
Co
David G. Valadao
RRepublican
Co
Don Bacon
RRepublican
Co
Donald G. Davis
DDemocratic
Co
Eleanor Holmes Norton
DDemocratic
Co
Elissa Slotkin
DDemocratic
Co
Henry Cuellar
DDemocratic
Co
Jason Crow
DDemocratic
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