I 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1503 
To combat forced organ harvesting and trafficking in persons for purposes 
of the removal of organs, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 21, 2025 
Mr. SMITH of New Jersey (for himself and Mr. KEATING) introduced the fol-
lowing bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and 
in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subse-
quently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To combat forced organ harvesting and trafficking in persons 
for purposes of the removal of organs, and for other 
purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Stop Forced Organ 
Harvesting Act of 2025’’. 
SEC. 2. STATEMENT OF POLICY. 
It shall be the policy of the United States— 
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(1) to combat international trafficking in per-
sons for purposes of the removal of organs; 
(2) to promote the establishment of voluntary 
organ donation systems with effective enforcement 
mechanisms in bilateral diplomatic meetings and in 
international health forums; 
(3) to promote the dignity and security of 
human life in accordance with the Universal Dec-
laration of Human Rights, adopted on December 10, 
1948; and 
(4) to hold accountable persons implicated, in-
cluding members of the Chinese Communist Party, 
in forced organ harvesting and trafficking in persons 
for purposes of the removal of organs. 
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) 
APPROPRIATE
COMMITTEES
OF
CON-
GRESS.—The term ‘‘appropriate committees of Con-
gress’’ means— 
(A) the Committee on Foreign Relations 
and the Committee on the Judiciary of the Sen-
ate; and 
(B) the Committee on Foreign Affairs and 
the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of 
Representatives. 
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(2) FORCED
ORGAN
HARVESTING.—The term 
‘‘forced organ harvesting’’ means the removal of one 
or more organs from a person by means of coercion, 
abduction, deception, fraud, or abuse of power or a 
position of vulnerability. 
(3) ORGAN.—The term ‘‘organ’’ has the mean-
ing given the term ‘‘human organ’’ in section 
301(c)(1) of the National Organ Transplant Act (42 
U.S.C. 274e(c)(1)). 
(4) TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS FOR PURPOSES 
OF
THE
REMOVAL
OF
ORGANS.—The term ‘‘traf-
ficking in persons for purposes of the removal of or-
gans’’ means the recruitment, transportation, trans-
fer, harboring, or receipt of a person for the purpose 
of removing one or more of such person’s organs, by 
means of— 
(A) coercion; 
(B) abduction; 
(C) deception; 
(D) fraud; 
(E) abuse of power or a position of vulner-
ability; or 
(F) transfer of payments or benefits to 
achieve the consent of a person having control 
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over a person described in the matter preceding 
subparagraph (A). 
SEC. 4. AUTHORITY TO DENY OR REVOKE PASSPORTS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of State may 
refuse to issue a passport to any individual who has been 
convicted of an offense under section 301 of the National 
Organ Transplant Act (42 U.S.C. 274e) and is subject 
to imprisonment or parole or other supervised release as 
the result of such conviction if such individual, in the com-
mission of such an offense, used a passport or crossed an 
international border. 
(b) REVOCATION.—The Secretary of State may re-
voke a passport previously issued to any individual de-
scribed in subsection (a). 
SEC. 5. REPORTS ON FORCED ORGAN HARVESTING AND 
TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS FOR PURPOSES 
OF THE REMOVAL OF ORGANS IN FOREIGN 
COUNTRIES. 
The Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2151 
et seq.) is amended— 
(1) in section 116 (22 U.S.C. 2151n), by add-
ing at the end the following: 
‘‘(h) FORCED
ORGAN
HARVESTING
AND
TRAF-
FICKING IN PERSONS FOR PURPOSES OF THE REMOVAL 
OF ORGANS.— 
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