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  SA 3558. Mrs. SHAHEEN (for herself and Mr. Scott of Florida) 
submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill S. 
2296, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2026 for military 
activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and 
for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe 
military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other 
purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

         At the appropriate place in title XII, insert the 
     following:

     SEC. 12___. HAITI CRIMINAL COLLUSION TRANSPARENCY ACT OF 
                   2025.

         (a) Short Title.--This section may be cited as the 
     ``Haiti Criminal Collusion Transparency Act of 2025''.
         (b) Reporting Requirements.--
         (1) In general.--Not later than 180 days after the date 
     of the enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter for 5 
     years, the Secretary of State, in coordination with other 
     Federal agencies as the Secretary determines appropriate, 
     shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a 
     report on the connections between criminal gangs and 
     political elites and economic elites in Haiti.
         (2) Contents.--The report required by paragraph (1) shall 
     include--
         (A) a list identifying prominent criminal gangs in Haiti, 
     including--
         (i) the leaders of each gang;
         (ii) a description of the criminal activities of each 
     gang, including coercive recruitment; and
         (iii) the primary geographic area of operations for each 
     gang;
         (B) a list of political elites and economic elites in 
     Haiti who knowingly have direct and significant links to 
     criminal gangs and any organizations or entities controlled 
     by such political elites and economic elites;
         (C) a detailed description of the relationship between 
     the political elites and economic elites listed pursuant to 
     subparagraph (B) and the criminal gangs identified pursuant 
     to subparagraph (A);
         (D) a detailed description of how political elites and 
     economic elites in Haiti use relationships with criminal 
     gangs to advance political and economic interests and 
     agendas;
         (E) a list of each criminal organization assessed to be 
     trafficking Haitians and other individuals to the United 
     States border;
         (F) an assessment of connections between political elites 
     and economic elites, criminal gangs in Haiti, and 
     transnational criminal organizations;
         (G) an assessment of how the nature and extent of 
     collusion between political elites and economic elites and 
     criminal gangs threatens the people of Haiti and the national 
     interests and activities of the United States in Haiti; and
         (H) an assessment of potential actions that the 
     Government of the United States and the Government of Haiti 
     could take to address the findings made pursuant to 
     subparagraph (F).
         (3) Form of report.--The report required by paragraph (1) 
     shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a 
     classified annex.
         (c) Sanctions.--
         (1) In general.--Not later than 90 days after the date 
     the report required by section 2 is submitted to the 
     appropriate congressional committees, the President shall 
     impose sanctions described in paragraph (2) with respect to 
     each foreign person identified pursuant to subparagraphs (A) 
     and (B) of subsection (b)(2).
         (2) Sanctions described.--The sanctions described in this 
     subsection are the following:
         (A) Property blocking.--Notwithstanding the requirements 
     of section 202 of the International Emergency Economic Powers 
     Act (50 U.S.C. 1701), the President may exercise of all 
     powers granted to the President by that Act to the extent 
     necessary to block and prohibit all transactions in all 
     property and interests in property of any foreign person 
     described in paragraph (1) if such property and interests in 
     property are in the United States, come within the United 
     States, or are or come within the possession or control of a 
     United States person.
         (B) Aliens inadmissible for visas, admission, or 
     parole.--
         (i) In general.--An alien who the Secretary of State or 
     the Secretary of Homeland Security (or a designee of one of 
     such Secretaries) knows, or has reason to believe, is 
     described in paragraph (1) is--

         (I) inadmissible to the United States;
         (II) ineligible for a visa or other documentation to 
     enter the United States; and
         (III) otherwise ineligible to be admitted or paroled into 
     the United States or to receive any other benefit under the 
     Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq.).

         (ii) Current visas revoked.--

         (I) In general.--The issuing consular officer, the 
     Secretary of State, or the Secretary of Homeland Security (or 
     a designee of one of such Secretaries) shall, in accordance 
     with section 221(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 
     U.S.C. 1201(i)), revoke any visa or other entry documentation 
     issued to an alien described in paragraph (1) regardless of 
     when the visa or other entry documentation was issued.
         (II) Effect of revocation.--A revocation under subclause 
     (I)--

         (aa) shall take effect immediately; and
         (bb) shall automatically cancel any other valid visa or 
     entry documentation that is in the possession of the alien.
         (3) Exceptions.--
         (A) Exception to comply with international obligations.--
     Sanctions under paragraph (2)(B) shall not apply with respect 
     to the admission of an alien if admitting or paroling the 
     alien into the United States is necessary to permit the 
     United States to comply with the Agreement regarding the 
     Headquarters of the United Nations, signed at Lake Success 
     June 26, 1947, and entered into force November 21, 1947, 
     between the United Nations and the United States, or other 
     applicable international obligations of the United States.
         (B) Exception relating to the provision of humanitarian 
     assistance.--Sanctions under this section may not be imposed 
     with respect to transactions or the facilitation of 
     transactions for--
         (i) the sale of agricultural commodities, food, medicine, 
     or medical devices to Haiti;
         (ii) the provision of humanitarian assistance to the 
     people of Haiti;
         (iii) financial transactions relating to humanitarian 
     assistance or for humanitarian purposes in Haiti; or
         (iv) transporting goods or services that are necessary to 
     carry out operations relating to humanitarian assistance or 
     humanitarian purposes in Haiti.
         (4) Implementation; penalties.--
         (A) Implementation.--The President may exercise all 
     authorities provided to the President under sections 203 and 
     205 of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 
     U.S.C. 1702 and 1704) to carry out this section.
         (B) Penalties.--The penalties provided for in subsections 
     (b) and (c) of section 206 of the International Emergency 
     Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1705) shall apply to any 
     person that violates, attempts to violate, conspires to 
     violate, or causes a violation of any prohibition of this 
     section, or an order or regulation prescribed under this 
     section, to the same extent that such penalties apply to a 
     person that commits an unlawful act described in section 
     206(a) of such Act (50 U.S.C. 1705(a)).
         (5) Waiver.--The President may waive the application of 
     sanctions imposed with respect to a foreign person under this 
     section if the President certifies to the appropriate 
     congressional committees, not later than 15 days before such 
     waiver takes effect, that the waiver is vital to the national 
     security interests of the United States.
         (d) Definitions.--In this section:
         (1) Admitted; alien; lawfully admitted for permanent 
     residence.--The terms ``admitted'', ``alien'', and ``lawfully 
     admitted for permanent residence'' have the meanings given 
     those terms in section 101 of the Immigration and Nationality 
     Act (8 U.S.C. 1101).

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         (2) Appropriate congressional committees.--The term 
     ``appropriate congressional committees'' means--
         (A) the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee 
     on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate; and
         (B) the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on 
     Financial Services of the House of Representatives.
         (3) Foreign person.--The term ``foreign person'' means an 
     individual or entity that is not a United States person.
         (4) Economic elite.--The term ``economic elite'' means a 
     board member, officer, or executive of a group, committee, 
     corporation, or other entity that exerts substantial 
     influence or control over the economy, infrastructure, or a 
     particular industry of Haiti.
         (5) Political elite.--The term ``political elite'' means 
     a current or former government official, or the high-level 
     staff of any such government official, a political party 
     leader, or a political committee leader of Haiti.
         (6) United states person.--The term ``United States 
     person'' means--
         (A) a United States citizen;
         (B) a permanent resident alien of the United States; or
         (C) an entity organized under the laws of the United 
     States or of any jurisdiction within the United States, 
     including a foreign branch of such an entity.
         (e) Sunset.--This section shall cease to have any force 
     or effect beginning on the date that is 5 years after the 
     date of the enactment of this Act.
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