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Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act of 2023

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Votes on passage
HouseOn Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended · 2/13/24Suspension of the rulesA fast-track House procedure, usually for measures expected to have broad support. Debate is limited to 40 minutes, no amendments can be offered, and it needs a two-thirds vote of members voting — not a simple majority. A yes vote passes the bill. “As amended” means changes written into the motion itself are included.Rules of the House, Rule XV, clause 1 ↗
Passed
  • Democratic209 Yea · 0 Nay · 3 Not voting
  • Republican205 Yea · 11 Nay · 3 Not voting
  • Independent / Other0 Yea · 0 Nay · 0 Not voting
Official summary (CRS)

Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act of 2023

This bill reauthorizes and updates various international antitrafficking activities and foreign assistance programs; requires counter-trafficking strategies, activities, and efforts to be further integrated into projects supported by U.S. foreign assistance; and requires the annual Trafficking in Persons Report to include information about the trafficking in persons for the purposes of organ removal.

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Sponsor
Rep. Christopher H. Smith ( Republican · NJ-4)
Cosponsors
23
Introduced
9/29/23
Policy area
Crime and Law Enforcement
Status
9/29/23Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, and 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.
9/29/23Introduced in House
11/7/23Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 44 - 0.
11/7/23Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
2/13/24Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
2/13/24On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 414 - 11 (Roll no. 41). (text: CR H565-567)
2/13/24Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 414 - 11 (Roll no. 41). (text: CR H565-567)
2/13/24DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 5856.
2/13/24Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H565-571)
2/13/24Mr. Smith (NJ) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
2/26/24Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.