YourVoice.Now Summary
Transparency & AccountabilityAdds a state seat to a federal panel on human trafficking — the rest stop sign plan was dropped.
Transparency & Accountability
The federal advisory committee on human trafficking would grow from 15 outside members to 16. The new seat goes to state transportation departments, and the Transportation Secretary would have 9 months after the bill becomes law to fill it.
More about this bill
Most people would see no change in daily life from this bill. It adds one seat to a federal advisory committee on human trafficking in transportation. That seat goes to state transportation departments, raising the committee to 16 outside members. An earlier version would have let two federal grant programs pay for human trafficking awareness signs. Those signs would have gone up at highway rest stops and welcome centers. A Senate committee removed those parts in October 2025. The bill's title still points to rest stop signs, but the current text does not pay for them. If it becomes law, the Transportation Secretary gets 9 months to name the new member.
Congressional Summary
This bill allows specific Department of Transportation (DOT) grants to be used for the installation of human trafficking awareness signs at rest stops and expands the DOT Advisory Committee on Human Trafficking.Specifically, grants for projects under the Surface Transportation Block Grant Program and the Local and Regional Project Assistance Program may be used for a project to procure and install human trafficking awareness signs at rest stops and welcome centers along the Interstate Highway System. The Local and Regional Project Assistance Program is also known as Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE). RAISE grants support multimodal projects for state, local, and tribal governments.In addition, the bill expands the membership for the DOT Advisory Committee on Human Trafficking to not more than 16 external stakeholder members (from 15) and requires the committee to include a representative from state departments of transportation. Current membership on the committee must include representatives from trafficking advocacy organizations; law enforcement; and trucking, bus, rail, aviation, maritime, and port sectors.
Details
- Congress
- 119th
- Chamber
- Status
- summarized
- Action
- Action Date
- Date Added
- 2026-04-02
- Source
- Congress.gov →
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