House bill · 118th Congress · Did not become law

Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act of 2023

H.R. 5856Introduced Sep 29, 2023Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Sponsor: Rep. Christopher Smith R-NJ

Where it went

IntroducedSep 29, 2023
Committee actionNov 7, 2023
Passed HouseFeb 13, 2024 · 414–11
Passed Senate—
To the President—
Became law—

Latest action: Feb 26, 2024 — Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 5856.

CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 5856, Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act of 2023” on December 4, 2023. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on November 7, 2023”.
Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, December 4, 2023 ↗
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April 9, 2026
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Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. SMITH of New Jersey, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 169, No. 159, September 29, 2023, Page H4912):
Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 The single subject of this legislation is: Human Trafficking
Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 29, 2023 ↗
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H.R. 5856, 118th Congress
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Record last updated by Congress.gov
April 9, 2026
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Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a committee report (as of April 9, 2026). Not every bill gets one.

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Vote results

No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).

Cosponsors

23 cosponsors — 12 Republicans, 11 Democrats

11 of 23 cosponsors (48%) are from the other party.

Don Bacon (R-NE), Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE), Michael Burgess (R-TX), Jason Crow (D-CO), Henry Cuellar (D-TX), Donald Davis (D-NC), Jenniffer González-Colón (R-PR), Josh Harder (D-CA), Jeff Jackson (D-NC), Nick LaLota (R-NY), Michael Lawler (R-NY), Kathy Manning (D-NC), Michael McCaul (R-TX), Cory Mills (R-FL), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Katie Porter (D-CA), Aumua Amata Radewagen (R-AS), Maria Salazar (R-FL), Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), David Valadao (R-CA), Ann Wagner (R-MO), Susan Wild (D-PA), Joe Wilson (R-SC).

More from the sponsor

Other 118th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Christopher Smith.

Sponsor’s state and district

New Jersey in Congress · NJ-4 district

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