I 
117TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6388 
To make updates to the National Strategy for Combating Terrorist and 
Other Illicit Financing, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 12, 2022 
Mr. SAN NICOLAS introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Financial Services 
A BILL 
To make updates to the National Strategy for Combating 
Terrorist and Other Illicit Financing, 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 ‘‘Combating Terrorist 
and Other Illicit Financing Act’’. 
SEC. 2. INCLUDING OF TRIBAL GOVERNMENTS AND TERRI-
TORIES IN THE HIGH-RISK MONEY LAUN-
DERING AND RELATED FINANCIAL CRIME 
AREAS. 
(a) FINDINGS.—The Congress finds the following: 
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(1) According to the Department of Justice, 
human trafficking is ‘‘a crime that involves exploit-
ing a person for labor, services, or commercial sex’’, 
a global illicit trade that is estimated by Global Fi-
nancial Integrity to be valued at more than $150.2 
billion each year. 
(2) Polaris, the non-governmental organization 
which runs the United States National Human Traf-
ficking Hotline, has found that while human traf-
ficking is a nationwide problem, the majority of do-
mestic human trafficking victims are ‘‘people who 
have historically faced discrimination and its polit-
ical, social and economic consequences: people of 
color, indigenous communities, immigrants and peo-
ple who identify as LGBTQ+’’. 
(3) For this reason, it is important that law en-
forcement representing native communities and ter-
ritories are part of the national dialogue about coun-
tering human trafficking. 
(4) The High Intensity Financial Crime Areas 
program, which is intended to concentrate law en-
forcement efforts at the Federal, State, and local 
level to combat money laundering in designated 
high-intensity money laundering zones, considers 
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human trafficking among other financial crime 
issues and actors. 
(5) In each High Intensity Financial Crime 
Area, a money-laundering action team, comprised of 
relevant Federal, State, and local enforcement au-
thorities, prosecutors, and financial regulators, 
works together to coordinate Federal, State, and 
local anti-money laundering effort. 
(6) The High Intensity Financial Crime Area 
program does not currently mandate the inclusion of 
law enforcement and other agencies from Tribes and 
territories. 
(7) Further, the National Strategy for Com-
bating Terrorist and Other Illicit Financing, a valu-
able report which is scheduled to sunset in January 
2022, does not currently mandate the inclusion of 
law enforcement and other agencies from Tribes and 
Territories. 
(b) NATIONAL STRATEGY
FOR COMBATING TER-
RORIST
AND OTHER ILLICIT FINANCING.—The Coun-
tering Russian Influence in Europe and Eurasia Act of 
2017 (22 U.S.C. 9501 et seq.) is amended— 
(1) in section 261(b)(2)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘2020’’ and inserting 
‘‘2024’’; and 
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(B) by striking ‘‘2022’’ and inserting 
‘‘2026’’; and 
(2) in section 262— 
(A) in paragraph (1)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘in the documents enti-
tled ‘2015 National Money Laundering 
Risk Assessment’ and ‘2015 National Ter-
rorist Financing Risk Assessment’,’’ and 
inserting ‘‘in the documents entitled ‘2020 
National Strategy for Combating Terrorist 
and Other Illicit Financing’ and ‘2022 Na-
tional Strategy for Combating Terrorist 
and Other Illicit Financing’ ’’; and 
(ii) by striking ‘‘the broader counter 
terrorism strategy of the United States’’ 
and inserting ‘‘the broader counter ter-
rorism and national security strategies of 
the United States’’; 
(B) in paragraph (6)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘PREVENTION OF IL-
LICIT FINANCE’’ and inserting ‘‘PREVEN-
TION, DETECTION, AND
DEFEAT
OF
IL-
LICIT FINANCE’’; 
(ii) by striking ‘‘private financial sec-
tor’’ and inserting ‘‘private sector, includ-
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ing financial and other relevant indus-
tries,’’; and 
(iii) by striking ‘‘with regard to the 
prevention and detection of illicit finance’’ 
and inserting ‘‘with regard to the preven-
tion, detection, and defeat of illicit fi-
nance’’; 
(C) in paragraph (7)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘Federal, State, and 
local officials’’ and inserting ‘‘Federal, 
State, local, Tribal, and Territory offi-
cials’’; and 
(ii) by inserting after ‘‘State and local 
prosecutors,’’ the following: ‘‘Tribal and 
Territorial law enforcement’’; and 
(D) in paragraph (8), by striking ‘‘so- 
called’’. 
(c) LAW ENFORCEMENT
AND OTHER AGENCIES 
FROM TRIBES AND TERRITORIES.—Section 5342 of title 
31, United States Code is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)(1)(B), by striking ‘‘local, 
State, national,’’ and inserting ‘‘local, State, na-
tional, Tribal, Territorial,’’; 
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(2) in subsection (a)(2)(A), by striking ‘‘with 
State’’ and inserting ‘‘with State, Tribal, Terri-
torial,’’; 
(3) in subsection (c)(3), by striking ‘‘any State 
or local official or prosecutor’’ and inserting ‘‘any 
State, local, Tribe, or Territory official or pros-
ecutor’’; and 
(4) in subsection (d), by striking ‘‘State and 
local governments and State and local law enforce-
ment agencies’’ and inserting ‘‘State, local, Tribal, 
and Territorial governments and State, local, Tribal, 
and Territorial agencies’’. 
(d) FINANCIAL CRIME-FREE COMMUNITIES SUPPORT 
PROGRAM.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Section 5351 of title 31, 
United States Code, is amended by striking ‘‘to sup-
port local law enforcement efforts’’ and inserting ‘‘to 
support local, Tribal, and Territorial law enforce-
ment efforts’’. 
(2) PROGRAM AUTHORIZATION.—Section 5352 
of title 31, United States Code, is amended— 
(A) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘State or 
local’’ in each place it occurs and inserting 
‘‘State, local, Tribal, or Territorial’’; and 
(B) in subsection (c)— 
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