[House Document 116-21]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]



116th Congress, 1st Session--------------------HOUSE DOUCUMENT 116-21

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TAKING ADDITIONAL STEPS TO ADDRESS THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY WITH RESPECT 
          TO SIGNIFICANT TRANSNATIONAL CRIMINAL ORGANIZATIONS

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                             COMMUNICATION

                                  from

                     THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

                              transmitting

AN EXECUTIVE ORDER WITH RESPECT TO TRANSNATIONAL CRIMINAL ORGANIZATIONS 
 THAT TAKES ADDITIONAL STEPS TO DEAL WITH THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY WITH 
 RESPECT TO TRANSNATIONAL CRIMINAL ORGANIZATIONS DECLARED IN EXECUTIVE 
    ORDER 13581 ON JULY 24, 2011, IN VIEW OF THE EVOLUTION OF THESE 
    ORGANIZATIONS AS WELL AS THE INCREASING SOPHISTICATION OF THEIR 
   ACTIVITIES, PURSUANT TO 50 U.S.C. 1703(b); PUBLIC LAW 95-223 SEC. 
                        204(b); (91 STAT. 1627)

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   March 18, 2019.--Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and 
                         ordered to be printed
                                           The White House,
                                        Washington, March 15, 2019.
Hon. Nancy Pelosi,
Speaker of the House of Representatives,
Washington, DC.
    Dear Madam Speaker: Pursuant to the International Emergency 
Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), I hereby 
report that I have issued an Executive Order (the ``order'') 
with respect to transnational criminal organizations that takes 
additional steps to deal with the national emergency with 
respect to significant transnational criminal organizations 
declared in Executive Order 13581 of July 24, 2011, in view of 
the evolution of these organizations as well as the increasing 
sophistication of their activities.
    The authorities in Executive Order 13581 are delegated to 
the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the 
Attorney General and Secretary of State, and the Secretary of 
the Treasury is authorized to take such actions, including 
adopting rules and regulations, and to employ all powers 
granted to the President by IEEPA, as may be necessary to 
implement the order. All executive departments and agencies are 
directed to take all appropriate measures within their 
authority to implement the order.
    I am enclosing a copy of the order I have issued.
            Sincerely,
                                                   Donald J. Trump.

                            Executive Order

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Taking Additional Steps To Address the National Emergency With Respect 
          to Significant Transnational Criminal Organizations

    By the authority vested in me as President by the 
Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, 
including the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 
U.S.C. 1701 et seq.), the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 
1601 et seq.), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code;
    I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of 
America, in order to take additional steps to deal with the 
national emergency with respect to significant transnational 
criminal organizations declared in Executive Order 13581 of 
July 24, 2011 (Blocking Property of Transnational Criminal 
Organizations), in view of the evolution of these organizations 
as well as the increasing sophistication of their activities, 
which threaten international political and economic systems and 
pose a direct threat to the safety and welfare of the United 
States and its citizens, and given the ability of these 
organizations to derive revenue through widespread illegal 
conduct, including acts of violence and abuse that exhibit a 
wanton disregard for human life as well as many other crimes 
enriching and empowering these organizations, hereby order:
    Section 1. Subsection (e) of section 3 of Executive Order 
13581 is hereby amended to read as follows:
    ``(e) the term ``significant transnational criminal 
organization'' means a group of persons that includes one or 
more foreign persons; that engages in or facilitates an ongoing 
pattern of serious criminal activity involving the 
jurisdictions of at least two foreign states, or one foreign 
state and the United States; and that threatens the national 
security, foreign policy, or economy of the United States.''
    Sec. 2. (a) Nothing in this order shall be construed to 
impair or otherwise affect:
          (i) the authority granted by law to an executive 
        department or agency, or the head thereof; or
          (ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of 
        Management and Budget relating to budgetary, 
        administrative, or legislative proposals.
    (b) This order shall be implemented consistent with 
applicable law and subject to the availability of 
appropriations.
    (c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any 
right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law 
or in equity by any party against the United States, its 
departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or 
agents, or any other person.

                                                   Donald J. Trump.
    The White House, March 15, 2019.

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