US HB4732

Expands the definition of "severe forms of trafficking in persons" under the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 to explicitly include orphanage trafficking

Covers the recruitment, harboring, transportation, transfer, or receipt of orphaned, abandoned, or minors under 18 living in residential facilities (orphanages, group homes, boarding schools, children's homes)

Requires trafficking to involve fraud, coercion, force, or abuse of vulnerability for purposes of exploitation, profit, forced labor, debt bondage, slavery, child labor, or sex trafficking

Responds to State Department findings that an estimated 5.4 million children live in institutional care globally, with traffickers targeting them under the guise of education, caregiving, adoption, or "volun-tourism"

Amends 22 U.S.C. 7102 paragraph (11) by adding a new subparagraph (C) to address this specific form of child trafficking