Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act of 2025
HR 1503, the Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act of 2025, requires the State Department to deny or revoke passports for individuals convicted of organ trafficking under U.S. law who used passports during the crime. It mandates annual reports assessing forced organ harvesting and trafficking in foreign countries, including definitions of these acts as removal by coercion, abduction, deception, or abuse of power. The bill also directs the President to impose sanctions - including blocking assets and banning visas - on individuals or entities facilitating such trafficking, with limited exceptions for humanitarian aid or international obligations. The law directly affects foreign nationals and entities involved in organ trafficking, not U.S. citizens or medical practices.
Bill status
passed
3 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2025
Committee Review
May 2025
House Passage
May 2025
Senate Passage
President
Introduced Feb 21, 2025
Last action May 8, 2025
Floor votes · House May 7, 2025
How they voted
406–1
Passed · 25 other
Total votes 432
May 7, 2025
D
Democratic213
95% Yea
I
Independent1
100% Yea
R
Republican218
92% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
11
Key actions
1
Committee
2
May 8, 2025
Committee
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
upper
May 7, 2025
Lower · Passed
Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 406 - 1 (Roll no. 119). (text: 5/5/2025 CR H1819-1820)
lower
Feb 21, 2025
Committee
Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
lower
Feb 21, 2025
Introduced
Introduced in House
lower
1 primary · 1 co-sponsor
Sponsors
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