region, including lawyers, accountants, business 
partners, service providers, and politicians who 
knowingly facilitate or fail to take measures to 
counter Hizballah’s illicit finance in their own 
jurisdictions; 
‘‘(C) efforts to assist willing nations with 
the development of counter-organized crime legis-
lation, the strengthening of financial investiga-
tive capacity, and a fully-vetted counter-orga-
nized crime judicial model in places plagued 
with corruption; and 
‘‘(D) efforts to persuade governments in the 
region to list Hizballah as a terrorist organiza-
tion; 
‘‘(2) the United States Permanent Representative 
to the Organization of American States to work to se-
cure support at the Organization of American States 
for a resolution that would declare Hizballah as a ter-
rorist organization and address Hizballah’s illicit 
networks operating in the region; 
‘‘(3) the United States Ambassador to the Orga-
nization for Security and Cooperation in Europe 
(OSCE) to work to secure a report on compliance by 
participating states with OSCE Decision Number 
1063, the ‘Consolidated Framework for the Fight 
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Against Terrorism’, in regard to Hizballah, with par-
ticular focus on the mandate to ‘suppress the financ-
ing of terrorism, including its links with money-laun-
dering and illegal economic activities’, especially as it 
relates transatlantic relations, including with Latin 
America and the Caribbean; and 
‘‘(4) United States diplomats to work with inter-
national forums, including the Financial Action Task 
Force, to identify government entities within Latin 
America and the Caribbean that provide support, fa-
cilitation, or assistance to individuals affiliated with 
Hizballah in the Western Hemisphere.’’. 
(2) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of con-
tents for the Hizballah International Financing Pre-
vention Act of 2015 is amended by inserting after the 
item related to section 103 the following new item: 
‘‘Sec. 104. Diplomatic initiatives.’’. 
TITLE 
II—NARCOTICS 
TRAF-
FICKING 
AND 
SIGNIFICANT 
TRANSNATIONAL 
CRIMINAL 
ACTIVITIES OF HIZBALLAH 
SEC. 201. BLOCKING OF PROPERTY OF AFFILIATED NET-
WORKS OF HIZBALLAH. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 201 of the Hizballah Inter-
national Financing Prevention Act of 2015 (Public Law 
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114–102; 50 U.S.C. 1701 note) is amended to read as fol-
lows: 
‘‘SEC. 201. IMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS WITH RESPECT TO 
AFFILIATED NETWORKS OF HIZBALLAH. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 120 days after the 
date of the enactment of this section, and as appropriate 
thereafter, the President shall impose the sanctions de-
scribed in subsection (b) with respect to affiliated networks 
of 
Hizballah, 
including 
by 
reason 
of 
significant 
transnational criminal activities of such networks. 
‘‘(b) SANCTIONS DESCRIBED.—The sanctions described 
in this subsection are sanctions applied with respect to a 
foreign person pursuant to Executive Order 13581 (75 Fed. 
Reg. 44,757) (as such Executive order was in effect on the 
day before the date of the enactment of this section). 
‘‘(c) 
DEFINITION.—In 
this 
section, 
the 
term 
‘Hizballah’ has the meaning given such term in section 
102(f).’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENTS.—The table of contents for 
the Hizballah International Financing Prevention Act of 
2015 is amended— 
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(1) by striking the item relating to title II and 
inserting the following: 
‘‘TITLE 
II—IMPOSITION 
OF 
SANCTIONS 
WITH 
RESPECT 
TO 
AFFLIATED NETWORKS OF HIZBALLAH AND REPORTS AND 
BRIEFINGS 
ON 
NARCOTICS 
TRAFFICKING 
AND 
SIGNIFICANT 
TRANSNATIONAL CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES OF HIZBALLAH’’; 
and 
(2) by striking the item relating to section 201 
and inserting the following: 
‘‘Sec. 201. Imposition of sanctions with respect to affiliated networks of 
Hizballah.’’. 
(c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by this 
section take effect on the date that is 90 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 202. REPORT ON RACKETEERING ACTIVITIES EN-
GAGED IN BY HIZBALLAH. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 202 of the Hizballah Inter-
national Financing Prevention Act of 2015 (Public Law 
114–102; 50 U.S.C. 1701 note) is amended to read as fol-
lows: 
‘‘SEC. 202. REPORT ON RACKETEERING ACTIVITIES EN-
GAGED IN BY HIZBALLAH. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 120 days after the 
date of the enactment of the Hizballah International Fi-
nancing Prevention Amendments Act of 2017, and annu-
ally thereafter for the following 5 years, the Assistant Attor-
ney General for the Criminal Division of the Department 
of Justice and the Administrator of the Drug Enforcement 
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Administration, in coordination with the Secretary of the 
Treasury and the heads of other applicable Federal agen-
cies, shall jointly submit to the appropriate congressional 
committees a report on the following: 
‘‘(1) Activities that Hizballah, and agents and 
affiliates of Hizballah, have engaged in that are rack-
eteering activities. 
‘‘(2) The extent to which Hizballah, and agents 
and affiliates of Hizballah, engage in a pattern of 
such racketeering activities. 
‘‘(b) FORM OF REPORT.—Each report required under 
subsection (a) shall be submitted in an unclassified form 
but may contain a classified annex. 
‘‘(c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
‘‘(1) APPROPRIATE
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMIT-
TEES.—The term ‘appropriate congressional commit-
tees’ means— 
‘‘(A) the Committee on the Judiciary and 
the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House 
of Representatives; and 
‘‘(B) the Committee on the Judiciary and 
the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Sen-
ate. 
‘‘(2) HIZBALLAH.—The term ‘Hizballah’ has the 
meaning given that term in section 102(f). 
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