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US HB6151

Bill

Status

Introduced

11/19/2025

Primary Sponsor

Sarah McBride

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Origin

House of Representatives

119th Congress

AI Summary

  • President must submit biannual lists of foreign persons responsible for torture, prolonged detention, disappearances, or other flagrant human rights violations against individuals based on actual or perceived sexual orientation, gender identity, or sex characteristics

  • Listed foreign persons become inadmissible to the United States, ineligible for visas, and subject to revocation of existing visas and entry documentation

  • Approximately one-third of all countries have laws criminalizing consensual same-sex relations, with 12 countries carrying the possibility of the death penalty

  • Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor must designate senior officers to track violence, criminalization, and restrictions on fundamental freedoms based on sexual orientation, gender identity, or sex characteristics in foreign countries

  • Annual State Department human rights reports must include information on violence or discrimination affecting fundamental freedoms of LGBTQI individuals in foreign countries

Legislative Description

Global Respect Act

International affairs

Last Action

Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

11/19/2025

Committee Referrals

Foreign Affairs11/19/2025

Full Bill Text

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