HR1503-119

What This Bill Does

The Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act of 2025 sets U.S. policy to combat international trafficking in persons for removal of organs, promote voluntary organ donation systems with effective enforcement in diplomatic meetings and international health forums, protect human dignity under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and hold accountable implicated persons, including Chinese Communist Party members. It defines forced organ harvesting as organ removal through coercion, abduction, deception, fraud, abuse of power, or exploitation of vulnerability, and defines organ-trafficking as recruitment, transport, transfer, harboring, or receipt of a person for organ removal using those coercive means or payments to a controlling person. The Secretary of State may deny or revoke passports for individuals convicted under the National Organ Transplant Act who used a passport or crossed an international border. The bill amends Foreign Assistance Act human-rights reports to include forced organ harvesting and organ-trafficking assessments for each foreign country. Within 180 days, the President must submit a list of persons funding, sponsoring, or facilitating forced organ harvesting or organ-trafficking and impose IEEPA property-blocking and visa sanctions, while preserving importation-of-goods, U.N. obligation, and humanitarian exceptions.

Who Benefits and How

Organ-trafficking victims, forced organ-harvesting victims, prisoners of conscience, religious minorities, human-rights organizations, voluntary organ-donation programs, congressional foreign-affairs committees, congressional judiciary committees, State Department human-rights officers, and international health forums benefit from annual documentation, diplomatic pressure, passport controls, and sanctions tools aimed at traffickers and facilitators. The reporting requirement helps compare country practices and exposes whether foreign governments or medical systems tolerate coercive organ sourcing.

Who Bears the Burden and How

Organ traffickers, forced organ-harvesting facilitators, Chinese Communist Party members implicated in organ harvesting, foreign medical institutions, medical tourism brokers, sanctioned foreign individuals, State Department passport officers, State Department human-rights staff, Treasury sanctions administrators, visa officers, humanitarian waiver reviewers, and foreign governments must face or administer passport denial, passport revocation, annual reporting, asset blocking, visa bans, import exceptions, and humanitarian carveouts.

Key Provisions

• Establishes U.S. policy to combat organ-trafficking and promote voluntary organ donation systems with enforcement mechanisms.
• Defines forced organ harvesting, organ, organ-trafficking, and appropriate congressional committees.
• Authorizes State Department passport denial or revocation for convicted organ traffickers who used a passport or crossed an international border.
• Requires Foreign Assistance Act reports to assess forced organ harvesting and organ-trafficking in each foreign country.
• Requires the President to list persons funding, sponsoring, or facilitating forced organ harvesting or organ-trafficking within 180 days.
• Imposes IEEPA asset blocking and visa sanctions with importation, U.N. obligation, and humanitarian exceptions.