Title: A bill to require an interagency strategy to disrupt and dismantle narcotics production and trafficking and affiliated networks linked in the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria.
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
This bill requires the Department of Defense, the Department of State, the Department of the Treasury, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and other appropriate federal agencies to report to Congress a strategy to disrupt and dismantle narcotics production and trafficking networks linked to the regime of Bashar al Asad in Syria.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3392 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 3392

 To require an interagency strategy to disrupt and dismantle narcotics 
production and trafficking and affiliated networks linked to the regime 
                      of Bashar al-Assad in Syria.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           December 14, 2021

 Mr. Marshall introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
             referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require an interagency strategy to disrupt and dismantle narcotics 
production and trafficking and affiliated networks linked to the regime 
                      of Bashar al-Assad in Syria.

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

SECTION 1. INTERAGENCY STRATEGY TO DISRUPT AND DISMANTLE NARCOTICS 
              PRODUCTION AND TRAFFICKING AND AFFILIATED NETWORKS LINKED 
              TO THE REGIME OF BASHAR AL-ASSAD IN SYRIA.

    (a) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that--
            (1) the Captagon trade linked to the regime of Bashar al-
        Assad in Syria is a transnational security threat; and
            (2) the United States should develop and implement an 
        interagency strategy to deny, degrade, and dismantle Assad-
        linked narcotics production and trafficking networks.
    (b) Report and Strategy Required.--Not later than 180 days after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense, the 
Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Administrator of 
the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Director of National 
Intelligence, and the heads of other appropriate Federal agencies shall 
provide a written strategy to the appropriate congressional committees 
to disrupt and dismantle narcotics production and trafficking and 
affiliated networks linked to the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria. 
The strategy shall include the following elements:
            (1) A strategy to target, disrupt, and degrade networks 
        that directly and indirectly support the narcotics 
        infrastructure of the Assad regime, particularly through 
        diplomatic and intelligence support to law enforcement 
        investigations and to build counter-narcotics capacity to 
        partner countries through assistance and training to law 
        enforcement services in countries, other than Syria, that are 
        receiving or transiting large quantities of Captagon.
            (2) The use of statutory authorities, including the Caesar 
        Syria Civilian Protection Act of 2019 (22 U.S.C. 8791 note), 
        the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act (21 U.S.C. 1901 
        et seq.), the International Narcotics Control Strategy Report 
        under section 489 of the Foreign Assistance Act (22 U.S.C. 
        2291a), and associated actions to target individuals and 
        entities directly or indirectly associated with the narcotics 
        infrastructure of the Assad regime.
            (3) The use global diplomatic engagements associated with 
        the economic pressure campaign against the Assad regime to 
        target its narcotics infrastructure.
            (4) Leveraging multilateral institutions and cooperation 
        with international partners to disrupt the narcotics 
        infrastructure of the Assad regime.
            (5) Mobilizing a public communications campaign to increase 
        awareness of the extent of the connection of the Assad regime 
        to illicit narcotics trade.
            (6) A description of the countries receiving or transiting 
        large shipments of Captagon and an assessment of the counter-
        narcotics capacity of those countries to interdict or disrupt 
        the smuggling of Captagon, including an assessment of current 
        United States assistance and training programs to build such 
        capacity in those countries.
    (c) Form of Report.--The report required under subsection (b) shall 
be submitted in an unclassified form, but may contain a classified 
annex.
    (d) Appropriate Congressional Committees.--In this section, the 
term ``appropriate congressional committees'' means--
            (1) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on the 
        Judiciary, the Committee on Foreign Relations, the Committee on 
        Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, the Committee on 
        Appropriations, and the Select Committee on Intelligence of the 
        Senate; and
            (2) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on the 
        Judiciary, the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee on 
        Financial Services, the Committee on Appropriations, and the 
        Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of 
        Representatives.
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