Title: EL CHAPO Act
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
Ensuring Lawful Collection of Hidden Assets to Provide Order Act or the EL CHAPO Act
This bill requires the forfeited profits of Joaquin Archivaldo Guzman Loera (El Chapo) from his illicit drug trafficking enterprise to be reserved for border security measures between the United States and Mexico, including the completion of a wall.
Additionally, it requires the forfeited funds from the felony conviction of a member of a drug cartel to be reserved for border security measures between the United States and Mexico, including the completion of a wall.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 25 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 25

 To reserve any amounts forfeited to the United States Government as a 
 result of the criminal prosecution of Joaquin Archivaldo Guzman Loera 
   (commonly known as ``El Chapo''), or of other felony convictions 
 involving the transportation of controlled substances into the United 
States, for security measures along the Southern border, including the 
                      completion of a border wall.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 3, 2019

   Mr. Cruz introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To reserve any amounts forfeited to the United States Government as a 
 result of the criminal prosecution of Joaquin Archivaldo Guzman Loera 
   (commonly known as ``El Chapo''), or of other felony convictions 
 involving the transportation of controlled substances into the United 
States, for security measures along the Southern border, including the 
                      completion of a border wall.

    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 ``Ensuring Lawful Collection of Hidden 
Assets to Provide Order Act'' or the ``EL CHAPO Act''.

SEC. 2. USE OF CERTAIN FORFEITED CRIMINAL PROCEEDS FOR BORDER SECURITY 
              MEASURES.

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any illegally obtained 
profits resulting from any criminal drug trafficking enterprise led by 
Joaquin Archivaldo Guzman Loera (commonly known as ``El Chapo''), which 
are criminally forfeited to the United States Government as a result of 
the conviction of Mr. Guzman Loera in a district court of the United 
States, shall be reserved for security measures along the border 
between the United States and Mexico, including the completion of a 
wall along such border, for the purpose of stemming the flow of illegal 
narcotics into the United States and furthering the security of the 
United States.

SEC. 3. USE OF FORFEITED CRIMINAL PROCEEDS OF OTHER CONVICTED CARTEL 
              MEMBERS.

    (a) Definition.--In this section, the term ``member of a drug 
cartel'' means an individual engaging in a continuing criminal 
enterprise involving knowingly and intentionally distributing a 
controlled substance, intending and knowing that the substance would be 
unlawfully imported into the United States from a place outside of the 
United States.
    (b) Use of Proceeds.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
any funds that are criminally forfeited to the United States Government 
as the result of a felony conviction in a district court of the United 
States of a member of a drug cartel shall be reserved for security 
measures along the border between the United States and Mexico, 
including the completion of a wall along such border, for the purpose 
of stemming the flow of illegal narcotics into the United States and 
furthering the security of the United States.
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