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HR 1503 Passed a chamber

Requires the President to list people who fund or facilitate forced organ harvesting and to block their U.S. property and visas, and adds forced organ harvesting to State Department foreign country reports.

Official title: Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act of 2025

Next stop Senate: awaiting action
Timeline each lane is a chamber; dates pull from congress.gov actions
House
Introduced 21-FEB-2025
Referred 21-FEB-2025
Passed 07-MAY-2025
Senate
Received 08-MAY-2025
Key points
  • Requires the President to submit to Congress, within 180 days of enactment, a list of people who fund, sponsor, or facilitate forced organ harvesting or trafficking for organ removal.
  • Requires blocking of property and revocation or denial of visas for listed people, with exceptions for humanitarian assistance, agricultural goods, food, medicine, and certain United Nations obligations.
  • Allows the Secretary of State to refuse or revoke passports of people convicted under the National Organ Transplant Act who used a passport or crossed an international border in the offense.
  • Amends the Foreign Assistance Act so that human rights and trafficking reports for each foreign country include an assessment of forced organ harvesting.
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Official CRS summary

Covers an older version. The newest CRS summary describes the bill as of "Introduced in House" (21-FEB-2025); the text has changed since (Engrossed in House, 07-MAY-2025).

CRS is the Library of Congress's nonpartisan research office. Read it on congress.gov
Committee referrals (3) Policy area

International Affairs

Sponsor Christopher H. Smith (R-NJ) Cosponsors · 1
■ 1 D
1 Democrat