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Transnational Fentanyl Prevention Act
To require the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency to submit to Congress an intelligence assessment on the Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco Cartel, and for other purposes.
Summary
This bill would require the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency to submit an intelligence assessment to Congress on the Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco Cartel within 90 days of enactment. The assessment would address the leadership, organizational structure, operations, and presence in Mexico of each cartel, as well as their drug smuggling routes and methods for importing precursor chemicals and producing and smuggling synthetic drugs into the United States. The assessment would also describe the cartels' main suppliers and brokers, their efforts to tailor fentanyl products to different U.S. consumers, their operations to undermine U.S. and Mexican counternarcotics efforts, and estimates of their annual revenue from drug sales. The Director would coordinate the assessment with other intelligence community elements and could submit it in classified form. The assessment would be provided to congressional defense, intelligence, and relevant committee leadership.
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- Dec 17, 2025 Referred to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. · house
- Dec 17, 2025 Introduced in House
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
December 17, 2025
Mr. Vindman (for himself and Mr. Moylan) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
A BILL
To require the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency to submit to Congress an intelligence assessment on the Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco Cartel, 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 “Transnational Fentanyl Prevention Act”.
SEC. 2. CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY INTELLIGENCE ASSESSMENT OF SINALOA CARTEL AND JALISCO CARTEL.
(a) Assessment.—Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, in consultation with the heads of the other elements of the intelligence community (as such term is defined in section 3 of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3003)) that the Director determines appropriate, shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress an intelligence assessment on the transnational criminal organizations known as the Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco Cartel.
(b) Elements.—The intelligence assessment under subsection (a) shall include, with respect to each transnational criminal organization specified in such subsection, a description of the following:
(1) The key leaders, organizational structure, subgroups, presence in the states within Mexico, and cross-border illicit drug smuggling routes of the transnational criminal organization.
(2) The practices used by the transnational criminal organization to import the chemicals used to make synthetic drugs, to produce such drugs, and to smuggle such drugs across the border into the United States.
(3) The main suppliers and the main brokers that supply the transnational criminal organization with precursor chemicals and equipment used in the production of synthetic drugs.
(4) The manner in which the transnational criminal organization is tailoring the fentanyl products of such organization to attract a wider variety of United States consumers, including unwitting users.
(5) The degree to which the transnational criminal organization is using human and technical operations to undermine counternarcotics efforts by United States and Mexican security services.
(6) An estimate of the annual revenue received by the transnational criminal organization from the sale of illicit drugs, disaggregated by drug type.
(7) Any other information the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency determines relevant.
(c) Form.—The intelligence assessment under subsection (a) may be submitted in classified form.
(d) Appropriate Committees of Congress Defined.—In this section, the term “appropriate committees of Congress” means—
(1) the congressional defense committees (as such term is defined in section 101(a)(16) of title 10, United States Code);
(2) the congressional intelligence committees (as such term is defined in section 3 of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3003));
(3) the Committee on Foreign Relations, the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate; and
(4) the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee on Homeland Security, and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives. <all>
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