Enhancing Intelligence Collection on Foreign Drug Traffickers Act of 2024

Bill: 118-hr-7837
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Houlahan, Chrissy [D-PA-6]
Introduced: 2024-03-29
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Latest action: action_date: 2024-03-29
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Intelligence (Permanent Select), 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.

Summaries:

tv_txt: I 118th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 7837 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES March 29, 2024 Ms. Houlahan (for herself, Mr. Crenshaw , Mr. Gottheimer , Mr. Ellzey , and Mr. Trone ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary , and in addition to the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence , 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 A BILL To amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to include counternarcotics in the definition of foreign intelligence.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Enhancing Intelligence Collection on Foreign Drug Traffickers Act of 2024 . 2. Inclusion of counternarcotics in definition of foreign intelligence Section 101(e)(1) of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 ( 50 U.S.C. 1801 ) is amended— (1) in subparagraph (B), by striking ; or and inserting a semicolon; and (2) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph: (D) international production, distribution, or financing of illicit synthetic drugs, opioids, cocaine, or other drugs driving overdose deaths, or precursors of any aforementioned; or .