H.R. 6919 — Save Our Girls from Sex Trafficking Act of 2025

This section directs the Attorney General to establish an interagency task force on domestic child human trafficking (as defined in 34 U.S.C. 20703(k)(3)) that includes the Secretaries of Health and Human Services, Treasury, Labor, Education, Housing and Urban Development, and Homeland Security. The task force must (1) collaborate with industry experts to decrease child human trafficking, including through demand reduction, prevention, and awareness education; and (2) coordinate holistic, victim-centered services and victim-centered law enforcement responses, including through education, law enforcement identification of survivors and connection to service providers, screening arrested youth to determine whether they are victims of child sex trafficking, and diversion of victims of child human trafficking to non-judicial rehabilitation services.

This section directs the Attorney General and the Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct a study on child human trafficking that examines (1) how and why children enter the sex trade; (2) profiles of sex traffickers, minors vulnerable to being trafficked, and those who purchase sex from children; (3) the physical and psychological effects on survivors; and (4) the impact of large events on the child human trafficking market. The section further requires a report on the study results to be submitted to Congress not later than three years after enactment.

This section authorizes the Secretary of Education to make grants to local educational agencies to educate children about child human trafficking. Grant applicants must submit applications as required by the Secretary, and recipients must collaborate with organizations expert in victim-centered approaches to identifying and responding to child human trafficking.

This section authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to agencies that have custody of, or provide services to, foster children for the purpose of educating those children about child human trafficking. Grant applicants must submit applications as required by the Secretary, and recipients must collaborate with organizations expert in victim-centered approaches to identifying and responding to child human trafficking.

This section establishes a grant program authorizing the Attorney General to award grants to states, units of local government, and Tribal governments (1) to train law enforcement officers and prosecutors on identifying victims of child human trafficking, (2) to create pre-trial diversion programs for such victims, and (3) to provide protection for such victims who testify against their exploiters. The section further authorizes the Attorney General to increase a grant award by up to 20% for recipients that (1) collaborate with a victim-centered multi-disciplinary team organization with expertise in responding to child human trafficking, (2) have a pre-trial diversion program or a program that identifies sex-trafficked minors for operations purposes, or (3) have a policy not to prosecute or otherwise punish victims of child human trafficking.

This section authorizes the Secretary of Labor to make grants to nonprofit organizations for job skills training and assistance in finding employment opportunities for survivors of child human trafficking and children at risk of being trafficked.

This section authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to nonprofit organizations (1) to provide long-term care facilities for victims of child human trafficking, (2) to provide long-term counseling and evidence-based trauma-informed mental health services for such victims, and (3) to provide long-term and transitional housing for such victims. Nonprofit organizations seeking grants must submit applications at such time, in such manner, and containing such information as the Secretary requires.