H.R. 1503 · Passed House · International Affairs

Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act of 2025

Sponsor: Christopher H. Smith (R-NJ)

What it does

• Requires the President to report to Congress a list of persons who facilitate forced organ harvesting or trafficking in persons for organ harvesting.
• Requires property-blocking and visa-blocking sanctions on each person on the list.
• Authorizes the State Department to deny or revoke the passport of anyone convicted of a federal crime of knowingly transferring a human organ for valuable consideration for transplantation.
• Limits the passport action to individuals serving imprisonment or supervised release who used a passport or crossed an international border in committing the crime.

Official summary

Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act of 2025 This bill requires the President to impose sanctions on persons (individuals and entities) involved in forced organ trafficking and authorizes the Department of State to deny or revoke the passports of individuals convicted of certain crimes related to organ trafficking. Specifically, the President must report to Congress a list of persons that facilitate (1) forced organ harvesting, or (2) trafficking in persons for organ harvesting. For each person on the list, the President must impose property- and visa-blocking sanctions. Furthermore, the State Department may deny or revoke the passport of an individual who has been convicted of a federal crime of knowingly transferring any human organ for valuable consideration for use in human transplantation, if the individual (1) is subject to imprisonment or supervised release resulting from that conviction, and (2) used a passport or crossed an international border when committing that crime.

Latest action

May 8, 2025: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.

Committee: Senate Foreign Relations