Title: CONFRONT Act
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
Criminal Organizations' Narcotics, Finances, Resources, Operations, and Networks Targeting Act or the CONFRONT Act
This bill directs the Department of the Treasury to develop a national strategy to combat the financial networks of transnational organized criminals.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2715 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2715

 To require the President to develop a national strategy to combat the 
financial networks of transnational organized criminals, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 19, 2018

   Mr. Hatch (for himself, Mr. King, and Mr. Tester) introduced the 
 following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
                  Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require the President to develop a national strategy to combat the 
financial networks of transnational organized criminals, and for other 
                               purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Criminal Organizations' Narcotics, 
Finances, Resources, Operations, and Networks Targeting Act'' or the 
``CONFRONT 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 Intelligence, the Secretary of Defense, the Director of the 
Financial 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 Customs and Border Protection, the Director of the 
Office of National Drug Control Policy, and the Federal functional 
regulators, develop a national strategy to combat the financial 
networks of transnational organized criminals.
    (b) Transmittal to Congress.--
            (1) In general.--Not later than 1 year after the date of 
        enactment of this Act, the President shall submit to the 
        appropriate congressional committees and make available to the 
        head of each agency described in subsection (a), a 
        comprehensive national 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 
        committees.
    (c) Separate Presentation of Classified Material.--Any part of the 
national strategy required to be developed under subsection (a) that 
involves information that is properly classified under criteria 
established by the President shall be submitted to the appropriate 
congressional committees separately in a classified annex and, if 
requested by the chairman or ranking member of one of the appropriate 
Congressional committees, as a briefing at an appropriate level of 
security.

SEC. 3. CONTENTS OF NATIONAL STRATEGY.

    The national strategy required under section 2 shall contain the 
following:
            (1) Threats.--An identification and assessment of the most 
        significant current transnational organized crime threats posed 
        to the national security of the United States or to the U.S. 
        and international 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 Organized Crime'' (published July 2011).
            (2) Illicit finance.--(A) An identification of individuals, 
        entities, and networks (including terrorist organizations, if 
        any) that provide financial support or financial facilitation 
        to transnational organized 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 estate and other tangible goods 
        such as art and antiquities, trade-based money laundering, 
        bulk-cash smuggling, exploitation of shell companies, and 
        misuse of digital currencies and other cyber technologies, as 
        well as an assessment of the risk to the financial system of 
        the United States of such methods.
            (3) Goals, objectives, priorities, and actions.--(A) A 
        comprehensive, research-based discussion of short-term and 
        long-term goals, objectives, priorities, and actions, listed 
        for each 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 integrated into, 
        and supports, the national security strategy, drug control 
        strategy, and counterterrorism strategy of the United States.
            (4) Reviews and proposed changes.--A review of current 
        efforts to combat the financing or financial facilitation of 
        transnational organized crime, including efforts to detect, 
        deter, disrupt, and prosecute 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 coordinated and 
        effective efforts within the jurisdiction of the United States, 
        including efforts or actions that are being taken or can be 
        taken by financial institutions, efforts in cooperation with 
        international partners 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 committees.--The term 
        ``appropriate congressional committees'' means--
                    (A) the Committee on Financial Services, the 
                Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee on Armed 
                Services, the Committee on the Judiciary, the Committee 
                on Homeland Security, 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 Affairs, and the Select Committee on 
                Intelligence of the Senate.
            (2) Federal functional regulator.--The term ``Federal 
        functional regulator'' has the meaning 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 operate 
        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) protecting their illegal activities through a 
                transnational organizational structure and the 
                exploitation of transnational commerce or communication 
                mechanisms.
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