S. 426 — Ensuring Accountability and Dignity in Government Contracting Act of 2025

This section modifies compliance, certification, reporting, investigation, and remedy requirements to prevent trafficking in persons under federal grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements. Specifically, it amends Section 1703 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013 by (1) requiring recipients to submit compliance plans at the time each certification under subsection (a) is made and upon request (previously upon request only), and (2) requiring prompt reporting to contracting or grant officers of any trafficking activities under section 106(g) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 by the recipient, subcontractors, subgrantees, or their agents, including circumstances and remedial actions. It further amends Section 1704 of such Act by (1) requiring Inspectors General to investigate any reported trafficking activities and remedial actions; (2) requiring notification to agency heads and suspension/debarment officials when investigations are not completed because recipients acknowledged the activities and took appropriate corrective action; and (3) authorizing agencies to suspend payments until appropriate remedial action is taken, striking one reporting requirement, and making conforming redesignations.

This section directs the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to submit to Congress, not later than 18 months after enactment, a report on the feasibility of (1) amending 22 U.S.C. 7104a—which requires certifications and plans to prevent human trafficking in federal grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements valued over $500,000 and performed outside the United States—to mandate assessments by contracting officials at the Departments of Homeland Security, Defense, and State and the U.S. Agency for International Development of contractor anti-trafficking plan compliance in agency-identified high-risk product/service categories and geographic locations; (2) streamlining agency reporting required by federal human trafficking victims protection laws; and (3) requiring such agencies to track and report contracting personnel's completion of anti-trafficking acquisition training.