Sponsors (2)
The bill promotes adoption of GAO-recommended collaboration practices and measurable goals to improve prevention, coordination, and accountability for child trafficking response, but it increases reporting and administrative burdens, risks privileging metrics over local service quality, and could lock policy to a single report absent additional funding or flexibility.
Children and youth at risk of trafficking will receive more targeted prevention and support because agencies must adopt GAO 'leading collaboration' practices and set measurable goals.
Survivors of trafficking will get improved, coordinated services as OVC/OTIP must develop survivor-support strategies and track performance.
State and local policymakers will find it easier to cite and implement a consistent set of GAO recommendations, streamlining adoption of best practices across jurisdictions.
Grantee organizations and nonprofits will face added administrative burdens to provide baseline data, meet new reporting/performance metrics, and reconcile requirements with existing programs.
Children, survivors, and service providers risk that emphasis on measurable goals could shift funding or program decisions toward easily measured outputs rather than service quality or local flexibility.
Implementation may require additional DOJ/ACF staff time or resources, potentially diverting funds away from direct services unless new funding is provided.
Based on analysis of 3 sections of legislative text.
Directs DOJ OVC, with ACF OTIP, to implement GAO anti-child-trafficking recommendations, set measurable program goals using grantee baseline data, and report actions to Congress within 180 days.
Directs the Department of Justice Office for Victims of Crime (OVC), working with the Administration for Children and Families Office on Trafficking in Persons (OTIP), to implement specified Government Accountability Office (GAO) recommendations to prevent child trafficking and support survivors. It requires the agencies to use GAO collaboration practices, set measurable program goals and targets based on grantee baseline data, and report progress to Congress within 180 days of enactment. One short provision establishes an official short title and another defines the referenced GAO recommendations.
Introduced March 13, 2025 by Thomas Jonathan Ossoff · Last progress December 17, 2025