[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2098 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2098

 To require the Secretary of Defense to establish a military training 
  program with the Government of Mexico in the United States, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 21, 2023

 Mr. Cornyn (for himself and Mr. King) introduced the following bill; 
  which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require the Secretary of Defense to establish a military training 
  program with the Government of Mexico in the United States, 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 ``Partnership for Advancing Regional 
Training and Narcotics Enforcement Response Strategies Act'' or the 
``PARTNERS Act''.

SEC. 2. STATEMENT OF POLICY ON MILITARY CAPACITY BUILDING AND SECURITY 
              COOPERATION WITH THE GOVERNMENT OF MEXICO.

    It is the policy of the United States Government to counter the 
threat posed by transnational criminal organizations, including through 
military capacity building and security cooperation with the Government 
of Mexico.

SEC. 3. BUILDING THE CAPACITY OF ARMED FORCES OF MEXICO TO COUNTER 
              THREAT POSED BY TRANSNATIONAL CRIMINAL ORGANIZATIONS.

    (a) Pilot Program.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense, in coordination with 
the Secretary of State, shall establish a pilot program to assess the 
feasibility and advisability of building the capacity of armed forces 
of Mexico in the United States on goals, jointly agreed to by the 
Governments of the United States and Mexico, to counter the threat 
posed by transnational criminal organizations, including through--
            (1) operations designed, at least in part, by the United 
        States, to counter that threat; and
            (2) in consultation with the appropriate civilian 
        government agencies specializing in countering transnational 
        criminal organizations--
                    (A) joint network analysis;
                    (B) counter threat financing;
                    (C) counter illicit trafficking (including 
                narcotics, weapons, and human trafficking, and illicit 
                trafficking in natural resources); and
                    (D) assessments of key nodes of activity of 
                transnational criminal organizations.
    (b) Plan.--
            (1) In general.--Not later than 180 days after the date of 
        the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall 
        submit to the appropriate congressional committees a plan for 
        implementing the pilot program required by subsection (a) over 
        a period of five years, including the costs of administering 
        the program during such period.
            (2) Definition of appropriate congressional committees.--In 
        this subsection, the term ``appropriate congressional 
        committees'' means--
                    (A) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee 
                on Foreign Relations, and the Committee on 
                Appropriations of the Senate; and
                    (B) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee 
                on Foreign Affairs, and the Committee on Appropriations 
                of the House of Representatives.
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