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118TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 6767 

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. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

DECEMBER 13, 2023 

Ms. SPANBERGER (for herself and Mr. CRENSHAW) introduced the following 

bill; which was referred to the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence 

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. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Transnational 

5 Fentanyl Prevention Act’’. 

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1 SEC. 2. CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY INTELLIGENCE 

2 ASSESSMENT OF SINALOA CARTEL AND 

3 JALISCO CARTEL. 

4 (a) ASSESSMENT.—Not later than 90 days after the 

5 date of enactment of this Act, the Director of the Central 

6 Intelligence Agency, in consultation with the heads of the 

7 other elements of the intelligence community that the Di8 rector determines appropriate, shall submit to the appro9 priate committees of Congress an intelligence assessment 

10 on the transnational criminal organizations known as the 

11 Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco Cartel. 

12 (b) ELEMENTS.—The intelligence assessment under 

13 subsection (a) shall include, with respect to each 

14 transnational criminal organization specified in such sub15 section, a description of the following: 

16 (1) The key leaders, organizational structure, 

17 subgroups, presence in the states within Mexico, and 

18 cross-border illicit drug smuggling routes of the 

19 transnational criminal organization. 

20 (2) The practices used by the transnational 

21 criminal organization to import the chemicals used 

22 to make synthetic drugs, to produce such drugs, and 

23 to smuggle such drugs across the border into the 

24 United States. 

25 (3) The main suppliers and the main brokers 

26 that supply the transnational criminal organization 

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1 with precursor chemicals and equipment used in the 

2 production of synthetic drugs. 

3 (4) The manner in which the transnational 

4 criminal organization is tailoring the fentanyl prod5 ucts of such organization to attract a wider variety 

6 of United States consumers, including unwitting 

7 users. 

8 (5) The degree to which the transnational 

9 criminal organization is using human and technical 

10 operations to undermine counternarcotics efforts by 

11 United States and Mexican security services. 

12 (6) An estimate of the annual revenue received 

13 by the transnational criminal organization from the 

14 sale of illicit drugs, disaggregated by drug type. 

15 (7) Any other information the Director of the 

16 Central Intelligence Agency determines relevant. 

17 (c) FORM.—The intelligence assessment under sub18 section (a) may be submitted in classified form. 

19 (d) DEFINITION OF APPROPRIATE COMMITTEES OF

20 CONGRESS.—In this section, the term ‘‘appropriate com21 mittees of Congress’’ means— 

22 (1) the congressional intelligence committees; 

23 (2) the Committee on Foreign Relations, the 

24 Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental 

25 Affairs, the Committee on Banking, Housing, and 

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1 Urban Affairs, and the Committee on Appropria2 tions of the Senate; and 

3 (3) the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the 

4 Committee on Homeland Security, and the Com5 mittee on Appropriations of the House of Represent6 atives. 

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