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[S. 1854 Reported in Senate (RS)]
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Calendar No. 233
119th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 1854
To required the imposition of sanctions with respect to political and
economic elites in Haiti, and for other purposes.
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
May 21, 2025
Mrs. Shaheen (for herself, Mr. Scott of Florida, Mr. Kaine, Mr. Curtis,
Mr. Coons, Mr. Booker, and Mr. Blumenthal) introduced the following
bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign
Relations
October 30, 2025
Reported by Mr. Risch, with an amendment
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed
in italic]
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A BILL
To required the imposition of sanctions with respect to political and
economic elites in Haiti, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
<DELETED>SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.</DELETED>
<DELETED> This Act may be cited as the ``Haiti Criminal Collusion
Transparency Act of 2025''.</DELETED>
<DELETED>SEC. 2. REPORTING REQUIREMENTS.</DELETED>
<DELETED> (a) In General.--Not later than 180 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter for 5 years, the
Secretary of State, in coordination with other Federal agencies as the
Secretary determines appropriate, shall submit to the appropriate
congressional committees a report on the connections between criminal
gangs and political elites and economic elites in Haiti.</DELETED>
<DELETED> (b) Contents.--The report required by subsection (a) shall
include--</DELETED>
<DELETED> (1) a list identifying prominent criminal gangs in
Haiti, including--</DELETED>
<DELETED> (A) the leaders of each gang;</DELETED>
<DELETED> (B) a description of the criminal
activities of each gang, including coercive
recruitment; and</DELETED>
<DELETED> (C) the primary geographic area of
operations for each gang;</DELETED>
<DELETED> (2) a list of political elites and economic elites
in Haiti who knowingly have direct and significant links to
criminal gangs and any organizations or entities controlled by
such political elites and economic elites;</DELETED>
<DELETED> (3) a detailed description of the relationship
between the political elites and economic elites listed
pursuant to paragraph (2) and the criminal gangs identified
pursuant to paragraph (1);</DELETED>
<DELETED> (4) a detailed description of how political elites
and economic elites in Haiti use relationships with criminal
gangs to advance political and economic interests and
agendas;</DELETED>
<DELETED> (5) a list of each criminal organization assessed
to be trafficking Haitians and other individuals to the United
States border;</DELETED>
<DELETED> (6) an assessment of connections between political
elites and economic elites, criminal gangs in Haiti, and
transnational criminal organizations;</DELETED>
<DELETED> (7) an assessment of how the nature and extent of
collusion between political elites and economic elites and
criminal gangs threatens the people of Haiti and the national
interests and activities of the United States in Haiti;
and</DELETED>
<DELETED> (8) an assessment of potential actions that the
Government of the United States and the Government of Haiti
could take to address the findings made pursuant to paragraph
(6).</DELETED>
<DELETED> (c) Form of Report.--The report required by subsection (a)
shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified
annex.</DELETED>
<DELETED>SEC. 3. SANCTIONS.</DELETED>
<DELETED> (a) In General.--Not later than 90 days after the date the
report required by section 2 is submitted to the appropriate
congressional committees, the President shall impose sanctions
described in subsection (b) with respect to each foreign person
identified pursuant to paragraphs (1) and (2) of section
2(b).</DELETED>
<DELETED> (b) Sanctions Described.--The sanctions described in this
subsection are the following:</DELETED>
<DELETED> (1) Property blocking.--Notwithstanding the
requirements of section 202 of the International Emergency
Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701), the President may
exercise of all powers granted to the President by that Act to
the extent necessary to block and prohibit all transactions in
all property and interests in property of any foreign person
described in subsection (a) if such property and interests in
property are in the United States, come within the United
States, or are or come within the possession or control of a
United States person.</DELETED>
<DELETED> (2) Aliens inadmissible for visas, admission, or
parole.--</DELETED>
<DELETED> (A) In general.--An alien who the
Secretary of State or the Secretary of Homeland
Security (or a designee of one of such Secretaries)
knows, or has reason to believe, is described in
subsection (a) is--</DELETED>
<DELETED> (i) inadmissible to the United
States;</DELETED>
<DELETED> (ii) ineligible for a visa or
other documentation to enter the United States;
and</DELETED>
<DELETED> (iii) otherwise ineligible to be
admitted or paroled into the United States or
to receive any other benefit under the
Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101
et seq.).</DELETED>
<DELETED> (B) Current visas revoked.--</DELETED>
<DELETED> (i) In general.--The issuing
consular officer, the Secretary of State, or
the Secretary of Homeland Security (or a
designee of one of such Secretaries) shall, in
accordance with section 221(i) of the
Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C.
1201(i)), revoke any visa or other entry
documentation issued to an alien described in
subsection (a) regardless of when the visa or
other entry documentation was issued.</DELETED>
<DELETED> (ii) Effect of revocation.--A
revocation under clause (i)--</DELETED>
<DELETED> (I) shall take effect
immediately; and</DELETED>
<DELETED> (II) shall automatically
cancel any other valid visa or entry
documentation that is in the possession
of the alien.</DELETED>
<DELETED> (c) Exceptions.--</DELETED>
<DELETED> (1) Exception to comply with international
obligations.--Sanctions under subsection (b)(2) shall not apply
with respect to the admission of an alien if admitting or
paroling the alien into the United States is necessary to
permit the United States to comply with the Agreement regarding
the Headquarters of the United Nations, signed at Lake Success
June 26, 1947, and entered into force November 21, 1947,
between the United Nations and the United States, or other
applicable international obligations of the United
States.</DELETED>
<DELETED> (2) Exception relating to the provision of
humanitarian assistance.--Sanctions under this section may not
be imposed with respect to transactions or the facilitation of
transactions for--</DELETED>
<DELETED> (A) the sale of agricultural commodities,
food, medicine, or medical devices to Haiti;</DELETED>
<DELETED> (B) the provision of humanitarian
assistance to the people of Haiti;</DELETED>
<DELETED> (C) financial transactions relating to
humanitarian assistance or for humanitarian purposes in
Haiti; or</DELETED>
<DELETED> (D) transporting goods or services that
are necessary to carry out operations relating to
humanitarian assistance or humanitarian purposes in
Haiti.</DELETED>
<DELETED> (d) Implementation; Penalties.--</DELETED>
<DELETED> (1) Implementation.--The President may exercise
all authorities provided to the President under sections 203
and 205 of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50
U.S.C. 1702 and 1704) to carry out this section.</DELETED>
<DELETED> (2) Penalties.--The penalties provided for in
subsections (b) and (c) of section 206 of the International
Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1705) shall apply to
any person that violates, attempts to violate, conspires to
violate, or causes a violation of any prohibition of this
section, or an order or regulation prescribed under this
section, to the same extent that such penalties apply to a
person that commits an unlawful act described in section 206(a)
of such Act (50 U.S.C. 1705(a)).</DELETED>
<DELETED> (e) Waiver.--The President may waive the application of
sanctions imposed with respect to a foreign person under this section
if the President certifies to the appropriate congressional committees,
not later than 15 days before such waiver takes effect, that the waiver
is vital to the national security interests of the United
States.</DELETED>
<DELETED>SEC. 4. DEFINITIONS.</DELETED>
<DELETED> In this Act:</DELETED>
<DELETED> (1) Admitted; alien; lawfully admitted for
permanent residence.--The terms ``admitted'', ``alien'', and
``lawfully admitted for permanent residence'' have the meanings
given those terms in section 101 of the Immigration and
Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101).</DELETED>
<DELETED> (2) Appropriate congressional committees.--The
term ``appropriate congressional committees'' means--</DELETED>
<DELETED> (A) the Committee on Foreign Relations and
the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of
the Senate; and</DELETED>
<DELETED> (B) the Committee on Foreign Affairs and
the Committee on Financial Services of the House of
Representatives.</DELETED>
<DELETED> (3) Foreign person.--The term ``foreign person''
means an individual or entity that is not a United States
person.</DELETED>
<DELETED> (4) Economic elite.--The term ``economic elite''
means a board member, officer, or executive of a group,
committee, corporation, or other entity that exerts substantial
influence or control over the economy, infrastructure, or a
particular industry of Haiti.</DELETED>
<DELETED> (5) Political elite.--The term ``political elite''
means a current or former government official, or the high-
level staff of any such government official, a political party
leader, or a political committee leader of Haiti.</DELETED>
<DELETED> (6) United states person.--The term ``United
States person'' means--</DELETED>
<DELETED> (A) a United States citizen;</DELETED>
<DELETED> (B) a permanent resident alien of the
United States; or</DELETED>
<DELETED> (C) an entity organized under the laws of
the United States or of any jurisdiction within the
United States, including a foreign branch of such an
entity.</DELETED>
<DELETED>SEC. 5. SUNSET.</DELETED>
<DELETED> This Act shall cease to have any force or effect beginning
on the date that is 5 years after the date of the enactment of this
Act.</DELETED>
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Haiti Criminal Collusion
Transparency Act of 2025''.
SEC. 2. REPORTING REQUIREMENTS.
(a) In General.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the
enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter for 5 years, the
Secretary of State, in coordination with other Federal agencies as the
Secretary determines appropriate, shall submit to the appropriate
congressional committees a report on the connections between criminal
gangs and political elites and economic elites in Haiti.
(b) Contents.--The report required by subsection (a) shall
include--
(1) a list identifying prominent criminal gangs in Haiti,
including--
(A) the leaders of each gang;
(B) a description of the criminal activities of
each gang, including coercive recruitment; and
(C) the primary geographic area of operations for
each gang;
(2) a list of political elites and economic elites in Haiti
who knowingly have direct and significant links to criminal
gangs and any organizations or entities controlled by such
political elites and economic elites;
(3) a detailed description of the relationship between the
political elites and economic elites listed pursuant to
paragraph (2) and the criminal gangs identified pursuant to
paragraph (1);
(4) a detailed description of how political elites and
economic elites in Haiti use relationships with criminal gangs
to advance political and economic interests and agendas;
(5) a list of each criminal organization assessed to be
trafficking Haitians and other individuals to the United States
border;
(6) an assessment of connections between political elites
and economic elites, criminal gangs in Haiti, and transnational
criminal organizations;
(7) an assessment of how the nature and extent of collusion
between political elites and economic elites and criminal gangs
threatens the people of Haiti and the national interests and
activities of the United States in Haiti;
(8) an assessment of how connections between political
elites and economic elites and criminal gangs facilitate
illicit firearms trafficking from the United States that fuels
violence and instability in Haiti; and
(9) an assessment of potential actions that the Government
of the United States and the Government of Haiti could take to
address the findings made pursuant to paragraph (6).
(c) Form of Report.--The report required by subsection (a) shall be
submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified annex.
SEC. 3. SANCTIONS.
(a) In General.--Not later than 90 days after the date the report
required by section 2 is submitted to the appropriate congressional
committees, the President shall impose sanctions described in
subsection (b) with respect to each foreign person identified pursuant
to paragraphs (1) and (2) of section 2(b).
(b) Sanctions Described.--The sanctions described in this
subsection are the following:
(1) Property blocking.--Notwithstanding the requirements of
section 202 of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act
(50 U.S.C. 1701), the President may exercise of all powers
granted to the President by that Act to the extent necessary to
block and prohibit all transactions in all property and
interests in property of any foreign person described in
subsection (a) if such property and interests in property are
in the United States, come within the United States, or are or
come within the possession or control of a United States
person.
(2) Aliens inadmissible for visas, admission, or parole.--
(A) In general.--An alien who the Secretary of
State or the Secretary of Homeland Security (or a
designee of one of such Secretaries) knows, or has
reason to believe, is described in subsection (a) is--
(i) inadmissible to the United States;
(ii) ineligible for a visa or other
documentation to enter the United States; and
(iii) otherwise ineligible to be admitted
or paroled into the United States or to receive
any other benefit under the Immigration and
Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq.).
(B) Current visas revoked.--
(i) In general.--The issuing consular
officer, the Secretary of State, or the
Secretary of Homeland Security (or a designee
of one of such Secretaries) shall, in
accordance with section 221(i) of the
Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C.
1201(i)), revoke any visa or other entry
documentation issued to an alien described in
subsection (a) regardless of when the visa or
other entry documentation was issued.
(ii) Effect of revocation.--A revocation
under clause (i)--
(I) shall take effect immediately;
and
(II) shall automatically cancel any
other valid visa or entry documentation
that is in the possession of the alien.
(c) Exceptions.--
(1) Exception to comply with international obligations.--
Sanctions under subsection (b)(2) shall not apply with respect
to the admission of an alien if admitting or paroling the alien
into the United States is necessary to permit the United States
to comply with the Agreement regarding the Headquarters of the
United Nations, signed at Lake Success June 26, 1947, and
entered into force November 21, 1947, between the United
Nations and the United States, or other applicable
international obligations of the United States.
(2) Exception relating to the provision of humanitarian
assistance.--Sanctions under this section may not be imposed
with respect to transactions or the facilitation of
transactions for--
(A) the sale of agricultural commodities, food,
medicine, or medical devices to Haiti;
(B) the provision of humanitarian assistance to the
people of Haiti;
(C) financial transactions relating to humanitarian
assistance or for humanitarian purposes in Haiti; or
(D) transporting goods or services that are
necessary to carry out operations relating to
humanitarian assistance or humanitarian purposes in
Haiti.
(d) Implementation; Penalties.--
(1) Implementation.--The President may exercise all
authorities provided to the President under sections 203 and
205 of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50
U.S.C. 1702 and 1704) to carry out this section.
(2) Penalties.--The penalties provided for in subsections
(b) and (c) of section 206 of the International Emergency
Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1705) shall apply to any person
that violates, attempts to violate, conspires to violate, or
causes a violation of any prohibition of this section, or an
order or regulation prescribed under this section, to the same
extent that such penalties apply to a person that commits an
unlawful act described in section 206(a) of such Act (50 U.S.C.
1705(a)).
(e) Waiver.--The President may waive the application of sanctions
imposed with respect to a foreign person under this section if the
President certifies to the appropriate congressional committees, not
later than 15 days before such waiver takes effect, that the waiver is
vital to the national security interests of the United States.
SEC. 4. DEFINITIONS.
In this Act:
(1) Admitted; alien; lawfully admitted for permanent
residence.--The terms ``admitted'', ``alien'', and ``lawfully
admitted for permanent residence'' have the meanings given
those terms in section 101 of the Immigration and Nationality
Act (8 U.S.C. 1101).
(2) Appropriate congressional committees.--The term
``appropriate congressional committees'' means--
(A) the Committee on Foreign Relations and the
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the
Senate; and
(B) the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the
Committee on Financial Services of the House of
Representatives.
(3) Foreign person.--The term ``foreign person'' means an
individual or entity that is not a United States person.
(4) Economic elite.--The term ``economic elite'' means a
board member, officer, or executive of a group, committee,
corporation, or other entity that exerts substantial influence
or control over the economy, infrastructure, or a particular
industry of Haiti.
(5) Political elite.--The term ``political elite'' means a
current or former government official, or the high-level staff
of any such government official, a political party leader, or a
political committee leader of Haiti.
(6) United states person.--The term ``United States
person'' means--
(A) a United States citizen;
(B) a permanent resident alien of the United
States; or
(C) an entity organized under the laws of the
United States or of any jurisdiction within the United
States, including a foreign branch of such an entity.
SEC. 5. SUNSET.
This Act shall cease to have any force or effect beginning on the
date that is 5 years after the date of the enactment of this Act.
Calendar No. 233
119th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 1854
_______________________________________________________________________
A BILL
To required the imposition of sanctions with respect to political and
economic elites in Haiti, and for other purposes.
_______________________________________________________________________
October 30, 2025
Reported with an amendment