# H.R. 1503 (119th): Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act of 2025

Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act of 2025 This bill requires the President to impose sanctions on persons (individuals and entities) involved in forced organ trafficking and authorizes the Department of State to deny or revoke the passports of individuals convicted of certain crimes related to organ trafficking. Specifically, the President must report to Congress a list of persons that facilitate (1) forced organ harvesting, or (2) trafficking in persons for organ harvesting. For each person on the list, the President must impose property- and visa-blocking sanctions. Furthermore, the State Department may deny or revoke the passport of an individual who has been convicted of a federal crime of knowingly transferring any human organ for valuable consideration for use in human transplantation, if the individual (1) is subject to imprisonment or supervised release resulting from that conviction, and (2) used a passport or crossed an international border when committing that crime.

## How this bill is scored

Tier: no Tier 1 record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Lane: abuse_accountability. Category: justice_truth. Lane tag: general equity.
Lane: foreign_policy. Category: war_peace. Lane tag: prudential.
Lane: human_trafficking. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: immigration. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: organ_trafficking. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: sanctions. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Tier 1 sign-off: no record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Stored polarity: good. A yea supports the bill. A nay is the penalized direction when the tag is scored as a protection. A yea on a credit tag is a credit.
Roll 119: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass. Vote type: final_passage.
Polarity rationale: Reviewed enrichment (llm_import) polarity: The bill directly restrains a named evil, forced organ harvesting and trafficking in persons for that purpose, by imposing sanctions on facilitators and enabling passport consequences for convicted organ traffickers. It strengthens accountability for exploitation rather than advancing harm, so good polarity is warranted from the title-plus-summary text.
Theological note: The measure bears on the protection of human persons from being treated as commodities and on the duty to restrain exploitation and seek justice for victims. Scripture's concern for the vulnerable, for the sanctity of human life and body, and for the restraint of those who profit by violence and oppression makes this issue morally relevant. This is an issue-relevance note, not a final candidate judgment.

## Recorded votes

Roll 119: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass. Yea 406 · Nay 1 · Other 25.

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