SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘National Strategy for 
Combating the Financing of Transnational Criminal Or-
ganizations Act’’. 
SEC. 2. NATIONAL STRATEGY. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The President, acting through the 
Secretary of the Treasury, shall, in consultation with the 
Attorney General, the Secretary of State, the Secretary 
of Homeland Security, the Director of National Intel-
ligence, the Secretary of Defense, the Director of the Fi-
nancial Crimes Enforcement Network, the Director of the 
United States Secret Service, the Director of the Federal 
Bureau of Investigation, the Administrator of the Drug 
Enforcement Administration, the Commissioner of Cus-
toms and Border Protection, the Director of the Office 
of National Drug Control Policy, and the Federal func-
tional regulators, develop a national strategy to combat 
the financial networks of transnational organized crimi-
nals. 
(b) TRANSMITTAL TO CONGRESS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 1 year after 
the enactment of this Act, the President shall sub-
mit to the appropriate Congressional committees and 
make available to the relevant government agencies 
as defined in subsection (a), a comprehensive na-
tional strategy in accordance with subsection (a).
(2) UPDATES.—After the initial submission of 
the national strategy under paragraph (1), the 
President shall, not less often than every 2 years, 
update the national strategy and submit the updated 
strategy to the appropriate Congressional commit-
tees. 
(c) SEPARATE PRESENTATION OF CLASSIFIED MA-
TERIAL.—Any part of the national strategy that involves 
information that is properly classified under criteria estab-
lished by the President shall be submitted to Congress sep-
arately in a classified annex and, if requested by the chair-
man or ranking member of one of the appropriate Con-
gressional committees, as a briefing at an appropriate level 
of security. 
SEC. 3. CONTENTS OF NATIONAL STRATEGY. 
The national strategy described in section 2 shall con-
tain the following: 
(1) THREATS.—An identification and assess-
ment of the most significant current transnational 
organized crime threats posed to the national secu-
rity of the United States or to the U.S. and inter-
national financial system, including drug and human 
trafficking 
organizations, 
cyber 
criminals, 
kleptocrats, and other relevant state and non-state 
entities, including those threats identified in the
President’s ‘‘Strategy to Combat Transnational Or-
ganized Crime’’ (published July 2011). 
(2) ILLICIT FINANCE.—(A) An identification of 
individuals, entities, and networks (including ter-
rorist organizations, if any) that provide financial 
support or financial facilitation to transnational or-
ganized crime groups, and an assessment of the 
scope and role of those providing financial support 
to transnational organized crime groups. 
(B) An assessment of methods by which 
transnational organized crime groups launder illicit 
proceeds, including money laundering using real es-
tate and other tangible goods such as art and antiq-
uities, trade-based money laundering, bulk cash 
smuggling, exploitation of shell companies, and mis-
use of digital currencies and other cyber tech-
nologies, as well as an assessment of the risk to the 
financial system of the United States of such meth-
ods. 
(3) GOALS, OBJECTIVES, PRIORITIES, AND AC-
TIONS.—(A) A comprehensive, research-based dis-
cussion of short-term and long-term goals, objec-
tives, priorities, and actions, listed for each depart-
ment and agency described under section 2(a), for
combating the financing of transnational organized 
crime groups and their facilitators. 
(B) A description of how the strategy is inte-
grated into, and supports, the national security 
strategy, drug control strategy, and counterterrorism 
strategy of the United States. 
(4) REVIEWS AND PROPOSED CHANGES.—A re-
view of current efforts to combat the financing or fi-
nancial facilitation of transnational organized crime, 
including efforts to detect, deter, disrupt, and pros-
ecute transnational organized crime groups and their 
supporters, and, if appropriate, proposed changes to 
any law or regulation determined to be appropriate 
to ensure that the United States pursues coordi-
nated and effective efforts within the jurisdiction of 
the United States, including efforts or actions that 
are being taken or can be taken by financial institu-
tions, efforts in cooperation with international part-
ners of the United States, and efforts that build 
partnerships 
and 
global 
capacity 
to 
combat 
transnational organized crime. 
SEC. 4. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act:
(1) APPROPRIATE
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMIT-
TEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate congressional com-
mittees’’ means— 
(A) the Committee on Financial Services, 
the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Com-
mittee on Armed Services, the Committee on 
the Judiciary, the Committee on Homeland Se-
curity, and the Permanent Select Committee on 
Intelligence of the House of Representatives; 
and 
(B) the Committee on Banking, Housing, 
and Urban Affairs, the Committee on Foreign 
Relations, the Committee on Armed Services, 
the Committee on the Judiciary, the Committee 
on Homeland Security and Governmental Af-
fairs, and the Select Committee on Intelligence 
of the Senate. 
(2) FEDERAL FUNCTIONAL REGULATOR.—The 
term ‘‘Federal functional regulator’’ has the mean-
ing given that term in section 509 of the Gramm- 
Leach-Bliley Act (15 U.S.C. 6809). 
(3) TRANSNATIONAL ORGANIZED CRIME.—The 
term ‘‘transnational organized crime’’ refers to those 
self-perpetuating associations of individuals who op-
erate transnationally for the purpose of obtaining
power, influence, monetary or commercial gains, 
wholly or in part by illegal means, while— 
(A) protecting their activities through a 
pattern of corruption or violence; or 
(B) while protecting their illegal activities 
through a transnational organizational struc-
ture and the exploitation of transnational com-
merce or communication mechanisms. 
Passed the House of Representatives March 6, 
2018. 
Attest: 
Clerk.
115TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4768 
AN ACT 
To require the President to develop a national 
strategy to combat the financial networks of 
transnational organized criminals, and for other 
purposes.