Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act of 2025

The bill would create a three-part framework to combat forced organ harvesting abroad. First, the President would be required to submit to Congress, within 180 days of enactment, a list of persons — individuals or entities — that fund, sponsor, or facilitate forced organ harvesting or trafficking in persons for organ removal. For each person on that list, the President would be required to impose two categories of sanctions: blocking all U.S.-based property and financial transactions, and rendering the individual inadmissible to the United States with any existing visas immediately revoked. Second, the Secretary of State would be authorized to refuse to issue or to revoke passports belonging to persons convicted of illegally transferring human organs for valuable consideration who used a passport or crossed an international border in the commission of that crime. Third, the bill would amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to require existing annual human rights country reports to include assessments of forced organ harvesting in every foreign country covered.

The sanctions regime includes exceptions for importation of goods, humanitarian assistance, and admission required by international treaty obligations. The President may waive sanctions on a case-by-case basis for up to 180 days at a time if certified as vital to national security interests, with 15 days' notice to Congress.

Foreign nationals and entities worldwide — including specifically named members of the Chinese Communist Party — who facilitate forced organ harvesting or trafficking for organ removal would face U.S. asset freezes and travel bans. U.S. nationals convicted of illegal organ sales who traveled internationally to commit those crimes could lose their passports. State Department and the President's national security apparatus would have new reporting and designation responsibilities.

Designated individuals would face immediate, automatic loss of U.S. visas and access to any U.S.-held assets, tools that have proven effective at isolating targeted actors from global financial systems. The passport revocation authority would close a loophole for convicted domestic organ traffickers who operate across borders. The country-reporting requirement would create a public, annual record of the global scope of the practice.

The President would have 180 days to compile and submit the initial sanctions list to the appropriate congressional committees; sanctions would be imposed on listed persons under the authority of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. The State Department would administer the passport denial and revocation authority independently, triggered by federal organ-trafficking convictions. Sanctions waivers would require presidential certification to Congress at least 15 days in advance. The Foreign Assistance Act amendments would fold organ harvesting assessments into the existing annual human rights reporting cycle for each foreign country.