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Calendar No. 588 

117TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION S. 4326 

[Report No. 117–229] 

To authorize the Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement 

to pay stipends to members of Transnational Criminal Investigative Units 

who have been properly vetted. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

MAY 26, 2022 

Mr. PORTMAN (for himself and Ms. HASSAN) introduced the following bill; 

which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs 

DECEMBER 5, 2022 

Reported by Mr. PETERS, with an amendment 

[Insert the part printed in italic] 

A BILL 

To authorize the Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs 

Enforcement to pay stipends to members of 

Transnational Criminal Investigative Units who have 

been properly vetted. 

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


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1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

2 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Transnational Crimi3 nal Investigative Unit Stipend Act’’. 

4 SEC. 2. HOMELAND SECURITY INVESTIGATIONS 

5 TRANSNATIONAL CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIVE 

6 UNITS. 

7 (a) IN GENERAL.—Subtitle H of title VIII of the 

8 Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 451 et seq.) 

9 is amended by adding at the end the following: 

10 ‘‘SEC. 890C. TRANSNATIONAL CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIVE 

11 UNITS. 

12 ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall operate 

13 Transnational Criminal Investigative Units within United 

14 States Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Homeland 

15 Security Investigations. 

16 ‘‘(b) COMPOSITION.—Each Transnational Criminal 

17 Investigative Unit shall be composed of trained foreign law 

18 enforcement officials who shall collaborate with Homeland 

19 Security Investigations to investigate and prosecute indi20 viduals involved in transnational criminal activity. 

21 ‘‘(c) VETTING REQUIREMENT.— 

22 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Upon entry into a 

23 Transnational Criminal Investigative Unit, and at 

24 periodic intervals while serving in such a unit, for25 eign law enforcement officials shall be required to 

26 pass certain security evaluations, which may include 


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1 a background check, a polygraph examination, a uri2 nalysis test, or other measures that the Director of 

3 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement deter4 mines to be appropriate. 

5 ‘‘(2) REPORT.—The Director of U.S. Immigra6 tion and Customs Enforcement shall submit a report 

7 to the Committee on Homeland Security and Gov8 ernmental Affairs of the Senate and the Committee 

9 on Homeland Security of the House of Representa10 tives that describes— 

11 ‘‘(A) the procedures used for vetting 

12 Transnational Criminal Investigative Unit 

13 members; and 

14 ‘‘(B) any additional measures that should 

15 be implemented to prevent personnel in vetted 

16 units from being compromised by criminal orga17 nizations. 

18 ‘‘(d) MONETARY STIPEND.—The Director of U.S. 

19 Immigration and Customs Enforcement is authorized to 

20 pay vetted members of a Transnational Criminal Inves21 tigative Unit a monetary stipend in an amount associated 

22 with their duties dedicated to unit activities. 

23 ‘‘(e) ANNUAL BRIEFING.—The Director of U.S. Immi24 gration and Customs Enforcement, during the 5-year period 

25 beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act, shall 


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1 provide an annual unclassified briefing to the congressional 

2 committees referred to in subsection (c)(2), which may in3 clude a classified session, if necessary, that identifies— 

4 ‘‘(1) the number of vetted members of 

5 Transnational Criminal Investigative Unit in each 

6 country; 

7 ‘‘(2) the amount paid in stipends to such mem8 bers, disaggregated by country; and 

9 ‘‘(3) relevant enforcement statistics, such as ar10 rests and progress made on joint investigations, in 

11 each such country.’’. 

12 (b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of contents 

13 for the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. note) 

14 is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 

15 890B the following: 

‘‘Sec. 890C. Transnational Criminal Investigative Units.’’. 


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Calendar No. 588 

117TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION S. 4326 

[Report No. 117–229] 

A BILL 

To authorize the Director of U.S. Immigration and 

Units who have been properly vetted. bers of Transnational Criminal Investigative Customs Enforcement to pay stipends to memDECEMBER 5, 2022 

Reported with an amendment 


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