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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. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Transnational 
Fentanyl Prevention Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY INTELLIGENCE 
ASSESSMENT 
OF 
SINALOA 
CARTEL 
AND 
JALISCO CARTEL. 
(a) ASSESSMENT.—Not later than 90 days after the 
date of enactment of this Act, the Director of the Central 
Intelligence Agency, in consultation with the heads of the 
other elements of the intelligence community that the Di-
rector determines appropriate, shall submit to the appro-
priate committees of Congress an intelligence assessment 
on the transnational criminal organizations known as the 
Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco Cartel. 
(b) ELEMENTS.—The intelligence assessment under 
subsection (a) shall include, with respect to each 
transnational criminal organization specified in such sub-
section, a description of the following: 
(1) The key leaders, organizational structure, 
subgroups, presence in the states within Mexico, and 
cross-border illicit drug smuggling routes of the 
transnational criminal organization. 
(2) The practices used by the transnational 
criminal organization to import the chemicals used 
to make synthetic drugs, to produce such drugs, and 
to smuggle such drugs across the border into the 
United States. 
(3) The main suppliers and the main brokers 
that supply the transnational criminal organization 
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with precursor chemicals and equipment used in the 
production of synthetic drugs. 
(4) The manner in which the transnational 
criminal organization is tailoring the fentanyl prod-
ucts of such organization to attract a wider variety 
of United States consumers, including unwitting 
users. 
(5) The degree to which the transnational 
criminal organization is using human and technical 
operations to undermine counternarcotics efforts by 
United States and Mexican security services. 
(6) An estimate of the annual revenue received 
by the transnational criminal organization from the 
sale of illicit drugs, disaggregated by drug type. 
(7) Any other information the Director of the 
Central Intelligence Agency determines relevant. 
(c) FORM.—The intelligence assessment under sub-
section (a) may be submitted in classified form. 
(d) DEFINITION OF APPROPRIATE COMMITTEES OF 
CONGRESS.—In this section, the term ‘‘appropriate com-
mittees of Congress’’ means— 
(1) the congressional intelligence committees; 
(2) the Committee on Foreign Relations, the 
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental 
Affairs, the Committee on Banking, Housing, and 
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Urban Affairs, and the Committee on Appropria-
tions of the Senate; and 
(3) the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the 
Committee on Homeland Security, and the Com-
mittee on Appropriations of the House of Represent-
atives. 
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