Require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to implement a Frederick Douglass Human Trafficking Survivors Employment and Education Program to help trafficking survivors reintegrate through life skills, employment, education, and social services support.

When enacted, Smith’s Frederick Douglass TVPRA of 2025 will also require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to implement a Frederick Douglass Human Trafficking Survivors Employment and Education Program to “prevent the re-exploitation of eligible individuals who have been victims of trafficking, by assisting such individuals to integrate or reintegrate into society through social services support for the attainment of life skills, employment, and education necessary to achieve self-sufficiency.”

The press release says Smith’s 2025 TVPRA bill would require HHS to create a survivor employment and education program to help trafficking victims avoid re-exploitation and achieve self-sufficiency.

Highlighting 25 years of progress, advocacy, and continued commitmentSmith marks the 25th anniversary of his Trafficking Victims Protection Act, calls for the immediate passage of HR 1144, his Frederick Douglass TVPRA of 2025 | U.S. Representative
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Congress.gov lists Rep. Christopher H. Smith as sponsor, introduced 04/27/2017, and says H.R.2200 became Public Law No. 115-425 on 01/08/2019.

Smith sponsored the 2017 Frederick Douglass trafficking reauthorization bill, and a version became law in a later House term.

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H.R.2200 - Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act of 2018
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The introduced bill contained Sec. 113, Human Trafficking Victims Reintegration Through Employment Program; HHS may carry it out and funded services included education, job training, life-skill training, resume help, interviews, college/technical-school enrollment, and other self-sufficiency services.

The original Smith bill included a concrete HHS survivor reintegration/employment program matching much of the promise, though framed as discretionary rather than a mandatory implementation requirement.

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Text - H.R.2200 Introduced in House
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The enacted table of contents has Sec. 101 grants, Sec. 102 complaints abroad, and Sec. 103 victim-services grants; it does not include the introduced employment and education program section. Searches within the law for the program name and life-skill/employment-skills terms returned no match.

The 2019 public law did not enact the HHS Human Trafficking Survivors Employment and Education Program from the introduced bill.

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Public Law 115-425 - Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act of 2018
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Congress.gov lists Smith as sponsor, introduced 02/01/2022. Latest action: 07/27/2022 received in the Senate and referred to Foreign Relations. Status: Passed House.

Smith again advanced the proposal in 2022, but H.R.6552 did not become law before the 117th Congress ended.

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H.R.6552 - Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act of 2022
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Sec. 102 was titled Human trafficking survivors employment and education program. It authorized HHS to carry out a program to support life-skills, employment, education, and wrap-around social services for self-sufficiency.

The House-passed 2022 bill closely matched the promise text, but it remained a bill and did not become binding law.

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Text - H.R.6552 Passed House
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Congress.gov lists Smith as sponsor, introduced 09/29/2023. Latest action: 02/26/2024 received in the Senate and referred to Foreign Relations. Status: Passed House.

Smith continued related Frederick Douglass trafficking reauthorization work in the next Congress, but the bill again stalled in the Senate and did not enact the promised HHS program by 2026-07-03.

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H.R.5856 - 118th Congress (2023-2024): Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act of 2023 | Congress.gov | Library of Congress
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