[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7837 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7837

 To amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to include 
      counternarcotics in the definition of foreign intelligence.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 29, 2024

 Ms. Houlahan (for herself, Mr. Crenshaw, Mr. Gottheimer, Mr. Ellzey, 
and Mr. Trone) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
  Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Permanent Select 
 Committee on Intelligence, 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

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to include 
      counternarcotics in the definition of foreign intelligence.

    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 ``Enhancing Intelligence Collection on 
Foreign Drug Traffickers Act of 2024''.

SEC. 2. INCLUSION OF COUNTERNARCOTICS IN DEFINITION OF FOREIGN 
              INTELLIGENCE.

    Section 101(e)(1) of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 
1978 (50 U.S.C. 1801) is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``; or'' and inserting 
        a semicolon; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
                    ``(D) international production, distribution, or 
                financing of illicit synthetic drugs, opioids, cocaine, 
                or other drugs driving overdose deaths, or precursors 
                of any aforementioned; or''.
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