IIB 
118TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4681 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
APRIL 17, 2024 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations 
AN ACT 
To provide for the imposition of sanctions with respect to 
illicit captagon trafficking. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Illicit Captagon Traf-
ficking Suppression Act of 2023’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) Industrial scale production of the amphet-
amine-type stimulant also known as captagon, and 
the illicit production of precursor chemicals, in terri-
tories held by the regime of President Bashar al 
Assad in Syria are becoming more sophisticated and 
pose a severe challenge to regional and international 
security. 
(2) Elements of the Government of Syria are 
key drivers of illicit trafficking in captagon, with 
ministerial-level complicity in production and smug-
gling, using other armed groups such as Hizballah 
for technical and logistical support in captagon pro-
duction and trafficking. 
(3) As affiliates of the Government of Syria and 
other actors seek to export captagon, they under-
mine regional security by empowering a broad range 
of criminal networks, militant groups, mafia syn-
dicates, and autocratic governments. 
SEC. 3. STATEMENT OF POLICY. 
It is the policy of the United States to target individ-
uals, entities, and networks associated with the Govern-
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ment of Syria to dismantle and degrade the transnational 
criminal organizations, including narcotics trafficking net-
works, associated with the regime of President Bashar al 
Assad in Syria and Hizballah. 
SEC. 4. IMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS WITH RESPECT TO IL-
LICIT CAPTAGON TRAFFICKING. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The sanctions described in sub-
section (b) shall be imposed with respect to any foreign 
person the President determines, on or after the date of 
enactment of this Act— 
(1) engages in, or attempts to engage in, activi-
ties or transactions that have materially contributed 
to, or pose a significant risk of materially contrib-
uting to, the illicit production and international il-
licit proliferation of captagon; or 
(2) knowingly receives any property or interest 
in property that the foreign person knows— 
(A) constitutes or is derived from proceeds 
of activities or transactions that have materially 
contributed to, or pose a significant risk of ma-
terially contributing to, the illicit production 
and 
international 
illicit 
proliferation 
of 
captagon; or 
(B) was used or intended to be used to 
commit or to facilitate activities or transactions 
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that have materially contributed to, or pose a 
significant risk of materially contributing to, 
the illicit production and international illicit 
proliferation of captagon. 
(b) SANCTIONS
DESCRIBED.—The sanctions de-
scribed in this subsection are the following: 
(1) BLOCKING OF PROPERTY.—The President 
shall exercise all authorities granted under the Inter-
national Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 
U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) to the extent necessary to block 
and prohibit all transactions in property and inter-
ests in property of the foreign person if such prop-
erty and interests in property are in the United 
States, come within the United States, or come with-
in the possession or control of a United States per-
son. 
(2) INELIGIBILITY FOR VISAS, ADMISSION, OR 
PAROLE.— 
(A) VISAS, ADMISSION, OR PAROLE.—An 
alien described in subsection (a) shall be— 
(i) inadmissible to the United States; 
(ii) ineligible to receive a visa or other 
documentation to enter the United States; 
and 
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(iii) otherwise ineligible to be admitted 
or paroled into the United States or to re-
ceive any other benefit under the Immigra-
tion and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101 et 
seq.). 
(B) CURRENT VISAS REVOKED.— 
(i) IN GENERAL.—The visa or other 
entry documentation of any alien described 
in subsection (a) is subject to revocation 
regardless of the issue date of the visa or 
other entry documentation. 
(ii) IMMEDIATE
EFFECT.—A revoca-
tion under clause (i) shall, in accordance 
with section 221(i) of the Immigration and 
Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1201(i))— 
(I) take effect immediately; and 
(II) cancel any other valid visa or 
entry documentation that is in the 
possession of the alien. 
(c) PENALTIES.—Any person that violates, or at-
tempts to violate, subsection (b) or any regulation, license, 
or order issued pursuant to that subsection, shall be sub-
ject to the penalties set forth 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 per-
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