[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5684 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5684

 To require the Director for Homeland Security Investigations of U.S. 
 Immigration and Customs Enforcement to conduct annual assessments on 
     threats posed to the United States by transnational criminal 
                 organizations, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 22, 2023

    Mr. Pfluger (for himself and Ms. Lee of Florida) introduced the 
  following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require the Director for Homeland Security Investigations of U.S. 
 Immigration and Customs Enforcement to conduct annual assessments on 
     threats posed to the United States by transnational criminal 
                 organizations, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Transnational Criminal Organization 
Threat Assessment Act''.

SEC. 2. ANNUAL ASSESSMENTS ON THREATS POSED TO THE UNITED STATES BY 
              TRANSNATIONAL CRIMINAL ORGANIZATIONS.

    (a) Requirement.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act and annually thereafter, the Director for 
Homeland Security Investigations of U.S. Immigration and Customs 
Enforcement of the Department of Homeland Security, in consultation 
with the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection of the 
Department, the Commandant of the United States Coast Guard, and the 
heads of other relevant Federal departments or agencies the Director 
determines appropriate, shall submit to the appropriate congressional 
committees assessments of threats posed to the United States by 
transnational criminal organizations (TCOs).
    (b) Contents.--Each assessment under subsection (a) shall address 
the following:
            (1) The most significant TCOs active in and outside of the 
        United States, including along the southwest and northern 
        borders, and including the organizational structure, 
        characteristics, and areas of influence within the United 
        States of each such TCO.
            (2) The drug smuggling trends used by TCOs to transport 
        illicit drugs entering the United States, including information 
        on seizures, investigations, and drug purity and potency 
        levels.
            (3) The role organized violent gangs have working with TCOs 
        in domestic drug trafficking.
            (4) The money laundering activities used by TCOs to 
        generate proceeds through the sale of illicit drugs in the 
        United States.
            (5) Information about the most widely trafficked drugs in 
        the United States, including illicit opioids, heroin, 
        methamphetamine, and new psychoactive substances, including 
        regarding their availability, consumption, and overdose related 
        deaths, production and cultivation, transportation, and 
        distribution.
            (6) A predictive outlook regarding drug trafficking and 
        drug-related trends and activities by TCOs.
            (7) Any other matters the Director for Homeland Security 
        Investigations determines relevant.
    (c) Form.--Each assessment under subsection (a) shall be submitted 
in unclassified form, but may include a classified annex only for the 
protection of intelligence sources and methods relating to the matters 
contained in each such assessment. The Director for Homeland Security 
Investigations shall post on a publicly available website of Homeland 
Security Investigations the unclassified portion of each such 
assessment.
    (d) Briefing.--
            (1) Briefing.--The Director for Homeland Security 
        Investigations shall annually brief the appropriate 
        congressional committees regarding each assessment under 
        subsection (a). The head of any other relevant Federal 
        department or agency shall accompany the Director for any such 
        briefing if any such committee, in consultation with the 
        Director, determines such is appropriate.
    (e) Appropriate Congressional Committees.--In this section, the 
term ``appropriate congressional committees'' means the Committee on 
Homeland Security and the Committee on Judiciary of the House of 
Representatives and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental 
Affairs and the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate.
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