[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6828 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 6828
To require the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency to submit to
Congress an intelligence assessment on the Sinaloa Cartel and the
Jalisco Cartel, and for other purposes.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
December 17, 2025
Mr. Vindman (for himself and Mr. Moylan) introduced the following bill;
which was referred to the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
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A BILL
To require the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency to submit to
Congress an intelligence assessment on the Sinaloa Cartel and the
Jalisco Cartel, 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 Fentanyl Prevention
Act''.
SEC. 2. CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY INTELLIGENCE ASSESSMENT OF SINALOA
CARTEL AND JALISCO CARTEL.
(a) Assessment.--Not later than 90 days after the date of the
enactment of this Act, the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency,
in consultation with the heads of the other elements of the
intelligence community (as such term is defined in section 3 of the
National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3003)) that the Director
determines appropriate, shall submit to the appropriate committees of
Congress an intelligence assessment on the transnational criminal
organizations known as the Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco Cartel.
(b) Elements.--The intelligence assessment under subsection (a)
shall include, with respect to each transnational criminal organization
specified in such subsection, a description of the following:
(1) The key leaders, organizational structure, subgroups,
presence in the states within Mexico, and cross-border illicit
drug smuggling routes of the transnational criminal
organization.
(2) The practices used by the transnational criminal
organization to import the chemicals used to make synthetic
drugs, to produce such drugs, and to smuggle such drugs across
the border into the United States.
(3) The main suppliers and the main brokers that supply the
transnational criminal organization with precursor chemicals
and equipment used in the production of synthetic drugs.
(4) The manner in which the transnational criminal
organization is tailoring the fentanyl products of such
organization to attract a wider variety of United States
consumers, including unwitting users.
(5) The degree to which the transnational criminal
organization is using human and technical operations to
undermine counternarcotics efforts by United States and Mexican
security services.
(6) An estimate of the annual revenue received by the
transnational criminal organization from the sale of illicit
drugs, disaggregated by drug type.
(7) Any other information the Director of the Central
Intelligence Agency determines relevant.
(c) Form.--The intelligence assessment under subsection (a) may be
submitted in classified form.
(d) Appropriate Committees of Congress Defined.--In this section,
the term ``appropriate committees of Congress'' means--
(1) the congressional defense committees (as such term is
defined in section 101(a)(16) of title 10, United States Code);
(2) the congressional intelligence committees (as such term
is defined in section 3 of the National Security Act of 1947
(50 U.S.C. 3003));
(3) the Committee on Foreign Relations, the Committee on
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, the Committee on
Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, and the Committee on
Appropriations of the Senate; and
(4) the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee on
Homeland Security, and the Committee on Appropriations of the
House of Representatives.
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