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Introduced August 1, 2025 by James Risch · Last progress August 1, 2025
The bill increases oversight, protections for certain vulnerable workers, and transparency on trafficking actions while sharply cutting and capping several State Department anti‑trafficking funding streams—trading broader accountability and targeted rights protections for reduced funding and potential operational burdens on programs and projects abroad.
People in trafficking‑vulnerable countries and project beneficiaries: multilateral development bank (MDB)‑funded projects must include counter‑trafficking risk assessments and mitigation measures, which should reduce risks of forced labor and exploitation in projects receiving U.S.-backed financing.
A‑3/G‑5 diplomatic household workers (domestic staff): mandated registration, provision of rights information, hotline access, and employer oversight will improve knowledge of rights and access to protections for these immigrant workers.
Congress, grant beneficiaries, and the public: increased transparency and oversight—through GAO reviews, required reporting on TIP tier changes, explanations of Presidential waivers, and public disclosure of subgrantees—gives policymakers and stakeholders better information to hold actors accountable and target responses.
Nonprofits, foreign partners, and trafficking victims abroad: the bill dramatically reduces State Department assistance authorizations (e.g., cuts from ~$65M to $2.5M and from $13.822M to $7M for certain offices), which is likely to shrink grant funding, monitoring capacity, and victim‑assistance programs overseas.
Nonprofits and programs to end modern slavery: imposing a $37.5M cap and lower authorized funding levels restricts flexibility and may leave effective anti‑slavery programs underfunded if demand for grants exceeds the cap.
U.S. taxpayers and federal agencies: expanded MDB policy conditions, extra reporting, and required GAO reviews increase administrative and compliance costs for U.S. agencies, which may raise taxpayer costs or divert resources from program delivery.
Based on analysis of 7 sections of legislative text.
Directs U.S. officials to press MDBs to include anti‑trafficking risk mitigation, changes authorization amounts and caps for anti‑trafficking programs, and increases reporting and briefings on TIP tiers and waivers.
Requires U.S. officials to press multilateral development banks (MDBs) to include anti‑trafficking risk assessment and mitigation in projects affecting countries with trafficking concerns, adds counter‑trafficking as an explicit purpose in certain foreign assistance authorities, changes and extends authorized funding levels for key anti‑trafficking programs, and increases congressional briefings and GAO reporting on Trafficking in Persons (TIP) tier movements and waiver decisions. It also amends statutory language on disaster assistance and the TIP watchlist mechanics and places a cap on amounts available for “programs to end modern slavery.”