Title: Drug Cartel Terrorist Designation Act
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
Drug Cartel Terrorist Designation Act
This bill directs the Department of State to report to Congress on specified Mexican drug cartels and determine whether they qualify as foreign terrorist organizations under the Immigration and Nationality Act. The State Department shall explain in detail its reasoning if it concludes that any of the specified cartels do not qualify.
The report shall analyze the Reynosa/Los Metros faction of the Gulf Cartel, the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, and the Cartel Del Noreste faction of Los Zetas.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1700 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1700

To direct the Secretary of State to submit to Congress a report on the 
 designation of the Reynosa/Los Metros faction of the Gulf Cartel, the 
 Jalisco New Generation Cartel, and the Cartel Del Noreste faction of 
 Los Zetas as foreign terrorist organizations, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 12, 2019

    Mr. Roy (for himself and Mr. Green of Tennessee) introduced the 
  following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To direct the Secretary of State to submit to Congress a report on the 
 designation of the Reynosa/Los Metros faction of the Gulf Cartel, the 
 Jalisco New Generation Cartel, and the Cartel Del Noreste faction of 
 Los Zetas as foreign terrorist organizations, 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 ``Drug Cartel Terrorist Designation 
Act''.

SEC. 2. REPORT ON DESIGNATION OF CERTAIN DRUG CARTELS AS FOREIGN 
              TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS.

    (a) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that--
            (1) each of the drug cartels set forth in section 2(a)(2) 
        meet the criteria for designation as a foreign terrorist 
        organization as set forth in section 219 of the Immigration and 
        Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1189); and
            (2) the Secretary of State should designate each of the 
        following Mexican drug cartels as a foreign terrorist 
        organization under such section 219:
                    (A) The Reynosa/Los Metros faction of the Gulf 
                Cartel.
                    (B) The Jalisco New Generation Cartel.
                    (C) The Cartel Del Noreste faction of Los Zetas.
    (b) Report.--
            (1) Report required.--Not later than 30 days after the date 
        of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State, in 
        consultation with the Director of National Intelligence, shall 
        submit to the appropriate committees of Congress--
                    (A) a detailed report on whether each of the drug 
                cartels listed in section (2)(a)(2) meet the criteria 
                for designation as a foreign terrorist organization as 
                set forth in section 219 of the Immigration and 
                Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1189); and
                    (B) if the Secretary determines that any of the 
                drug cartels do not meet the criteria set forth under 
                such section 219, a detailed justification as to which 
                criteria have not been met.
            (2) Form.--The report required by paragraph (1) shall--
                    (A) be submitted in unclassified form, but may 
                include a classified annex; and
                    (B) be made available only in electronic form and 
                shall not be printed, except if a printed copy is 
                requested by an office of the legislative branch.
            (3) Appropriate committees of congress defined.--In this 
        subsection, the term ``appropriate committees of Congress'' 
        means--
                    (A) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee 
                on Financial Services, the Committee on Foreign 
                Affairs, 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 Armed Services, the Committee 
                on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, the Committee 
                on Foreign Relations, the Committee on the Judiciary, 
                the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental 
                Affairs, and the Select Committee on Intelligence of 
                the Senate.
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