To direct the President to impose sanctions against foreign persons determined to have knowingly engaged in significant corruption in Mexico, and for other purposes.

Subjects: Government Operations and Politics


<html><body><pre>[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1779 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1779

  To direct the President to impose sanctions against foreign persons 
   determined to have knowingly engaged in significant corruption in 
                    Mexico, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 24, 2023

  Mr. Moran introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
 Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on the 
 Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, 
 in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the 
                jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
  To direct the President to impose sanctions against foreign persons 
   determined to have knowingly engaged in significant corruption in 
                    Mexico, 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. IMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS.

    (a) Imposition of Sanctions.--The President shall impose the 
sanctions described in subsection (b) with respect to any foreign 
person that the President determines has, on or after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, knowingly engaged in significant corruption in 
Mexico, including through the following acts:
            (1) Corruption related to government contracts.
            (2) Bribery or extortion.
            (3) The transfer, or the facilitation of the transfer, of 
        the proceeds of corruption, including through money laundering.
            (4) Acts of violence, harassment, or intimidation directed 
        at governmental or nongovernmental corruption investigators.
            (5) The facilitation of, or involvement in, the production, 
        sale, or distribution of illicit fentanyl or fentanyl analogs.
    (b) Sanctions Described.--
            (1) In general.--The sanctions described in this subsection 
        are the following:
                    (A) Asset blocking.--The President shall exercise 
                all of the powers granted to the President by the 
                International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 
                1701 et seq.) to the extent necessary to block and 
                prohibit all transactions in property and interests in 
                property of a foreign person if such property or 
                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.
                    (B) Ineligibility for visas and admission to the 
                united states.--In the case of a foreign person who is 
                an individual, such foreign person is--
                            (i) inadmissible to the United States;
                            (ii) ineligible to receive 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.).
                    (C) Current visas revoked.--
                            (i) In general.--The issuing consular 
                        officer or the Secretary of State, (or a 
                        designee of the Secretary of State) 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 a foreign person 
                        regardless of when the visa or other entry 
                        documentation is issued.
                            (ii) Effect of revocation.--A revocation 
                        under clause (i) shall--
                                    (I) take effect immediately; and
                                    (II) automatically cancel any other 
                                valid visa or entry documentation that 
                                is in the possession of the foreign 
                                person.
            (2) Penalties.--A person that violates, attempts to 
        violate, conspires to violate, or causes a violation of a 
        measure imposed pursuant to paragraph (1)(A) or any regulation, 
        license, or order issued to carry out such paragraph shall be 
        subject to the penalties specified in subsections (b) and (c) 
        of section 206 of the International Emergency Economic Powers 
        Act (50 U.S.C. 1705) to the same extent as a person that 
        commits an unlawful act described in subsection (a) of such 
        section.
            (3) Exception to comply with international obligations.--
        Sanctions under subparagraph (B) and (C) of paragraph (1) shall 
        not apply with respect to a foreign person if admitting or 
        paroling such person 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.
    (c) Implementation; Regulatory Authority.--
            (1) Implementation.--The President may exercise all 
        authorities provided 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) Regulatory authority.--The President shall issue such 
        regulations, licenses, and orders as are necessary to carry out 
        this section.
    (d) National Security Waiver.--The President may waive, on a case-
by-case basis, the application of a sanction under subsection (b) with 
respect to a foreign person if the President--
            (1) determines that such a waiver is in the national 
        security interest of the United States; and
            (2) submits to the appropriate congressional committees a 
        notice of and justification for the waiver.
    (e) Termination.--The authority to impose sanctions under 
subsection (b), and any sanctions imposed pursuant to such authority, 
shall expire on the date that is 3 years after the date of the 
enactment of this Act.
    (f) Exception Relating to Importation of Goods.--The authorities 
and requirements to impose sanctions authorized under this Act shall 
not include the authority or requirement to impose sanctions on the 
importation of goods.
    (g) Reports Required.--
            (1) Reports.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the 
        enactment of this Act, and not less frequently than annually 
        thereafter, the President shall submit to the appropriate 
        congressional committees a report that identifies each foreign 
        person in Mexico who the President determines to have knowingly 
        engaged in actions that facilitate the illicit production, 
        distribution, or sale of illicit fentanyl or fentanyl analogs, 
        including through the acts listed in paragraphs (1) through (5) 
        of subsection (a).
            (2) Form.--Each report under paragraph (1) shall be 
        submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified 
        annex.
    (h) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) Appropriate congressional committees.--The term 
        ``appropriate congressional committees'' means--
                    (A) the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee 
                on the Judiciary, and the Committee on Financial 
                Services of the House of Representatives; and
                    (B) the Committee on Foreign Relations, the 
                Committee on the Judiciary, and the Committee on 
                Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate.
            (2) Fentanyl analog.--The term ``fentanyl analog'' means a 
        controlled substance analogue (as defined in section 102 of the 
        Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 802)) of fentanyl.
            (3) Foreign person.--The term ``foreign person'' means any 
        person that is not a United States person.
            (4) Good.--The term ``good'' means any article, natural or 
        man-made substance, material, supply or manufactured product, 
        including inspection and test equipment, and excluding 
        technical data.
            (5) United states person.--The term ``United States 
        person'' means, with respect to a person who is an individual, 
        a United States citizen or an alien lawfully admitted for 
        permanent residence to the United States.
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