Haiti Criminal Collusion Transparency Act of 2025

Bill: 119-hr-2643
Sponsor: Rep. Meeks, Gregory W. [D-NY-5]
Introduced: 2025-04-03 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Caribbean area
Congressional oversight
Criminal procedure and sentencing
Foreign aid and international relief
Foreign property
Haiti
Organized crime
Political parties and affiliation
Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
Rule of law and government transparency
Sanctions
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2025-04-03
text: 

Haiti Criminal Collusion Transparency Act of 2025

This bill requires the President to impose visa- and property-blocking sanctions on foreign individuals and entities that are involved in or have direct ties to prominent criminal gangs in Haiti.

Specifically, the Department of State must periodically report to Congress on the ties between criminal gangs and political and economic elites in Haiti. The report must list (1) prominent criminal gangs in Haiti and the leaders thereof, and (2) Haitian political and economic elites who have direct links to criminal gangs and any organizations or entities controlled by these individuals. The President must impose sanctions on listed individuals and entities.

Under the bill, the term 
economic elites
 means board members, officers, and executives of groups, corporations, or other entities that exert substantial influence or control over Haiti’s economy, infrastructure, or particular industries. 
Political elites
 means current and former government officials and their high-level staff and political party or committee leaders.

The bill also applies civil and criminal penalties to persons that violate, attempt to violate, conspire to violate, or cause a violation of the regulations promulgated to carry out such sanctions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2025-09-03
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2025-09-02
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2025-09-02
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H3731-3732: 1)
action_date: 2025-09-02
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.
action_date: 2025-09-02
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 2643.
action_date: 2025-09-02
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H3731-3733)
action_date: 2025-09-02
text: Mr. Baumgartner moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
action_date: 2025-04-09
text: Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2025-04-09
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
action_date: 2025-04-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2025-04-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2025-04-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2025-04-03
text: Introduced in House