Preventing Child Trafficking Act of 2025 in plain language
1: Short title
This section would give the Act its official name: the Preventing Child Trafficking Act of 2025.
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1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Preventing Child Trafficking Act of 2025 .
2: Defined term
This section would define the term "anti-trafficking recommendations," as used in the Act, to mean the recommendations set out in the Government Accountability Office report titled "Child Trafficking: Addressing Challenges to Public Awareness and Survivor Support," published on December 11, 2023.
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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
This section would require the Office for Victims of Crime at the Department of Justice, working together with the Office on Trafficking in Persons at the Administration for Children and Families, to keep implementing the anti-trafficking recommendations. To do this, the two offices would have to work together, following the leading collaboration practices referenced in GAO report GAO-24-106038, to develop and carry out strategies to prevent child trafficking and support child trafficking survivors, and they would have to set 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 the programs' grantees. This section would also require the Director of the Office for Victims of Crime to submit a report, no later than 180 days after the Act becomes law, to the Senate Committee on the Judiciary and the House Committee on the Judiciary, explicitly describing the steps taken to carry out these requirements.
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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).